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Using Functionalized Benzylidene Oxindoles To Determine An Improved Monoamine Oxidase-B Inhibitor As A Therapeutic Agent For Parkinson's Disease, Christine Morgan Kinstedt

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With the intent to create an optimized monoamine oxidase-B (MAO-B) inhibitor, researchers in this investigation synthesized derivatives of the benzylidene oxindole scaffold in order to determine a lead molecule for further drug development. Previous work in this laboratory group evaluated a similar scaffold, the chalcone structural unit. As this class of compounds was determined to possess the ability to permeate the blood brain barrier (BBB) and to act as potent MAO-B inhibitors, it was posited that scaffold hopping from this previously studied molecular skeleton to benzylidene oxindoles would provide analogous results. Benzylidene oxindoles are readily synthesized via the Claisen-Schmidt condensation …