Cajanus cajan (L) Millsp. (Sanskrit: Adhaki, Hindi: Arhar, English: Pigeon pea, Bengali: Tur) (family: Fabaceae) is the most important grain legume crop of rain-fed agriculture in semi-arid tropics. It is both a food crop and a cover/forage crop with high levels of proteins and important amino acids like methionine, lysine and tryptophan. During the last few decades extensive studies have been carried out regarding the chemistry of C. cajan and considerable progress has been achieved regarding its biological activities and medicinal applications. This review article gives an overview on the biological activities of the compounds isolated, pharmacological actions and clinical studies of C. cajan extracts apart from its general details.

Due to its appreciable diversity in biological actions, thiazole and its substituted components, a significant class of heterocyclic compounds has developed as an influential scaffold in the field of chemical sciences. The variability of thiazole core has been expressed through the effective instigation of its anticancer (Dasatinib, Tiazofurin), antiretroviral (Ritonavir, Brecanavir), antimicrobial (Sulfathiazole, Ravuconazole) and anti-inflammatory (Fenclozic acid, Meloxicam) derivatives. This reasonable diversity in the physiological reaction pattern led many scientists to refine and develop new structural alternatives with much more efficient pharmacological action. This review is crucial for previous studies and projects to survey the antimicrobial activity of thiazole and thiazole related compounds to the mid of 2019.

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Thiophene has emerged as a potent scaffold that has pulled the keen interest of the researchers because of its considerable diversity in biological activities. The versatility of the thiophene nucleus is demonstrated by the successful introduction of its derivatives, which have anti‐inflammatory (Thenaldine), anticancer (Ralitrexed), antioxidant (Erdosteine), and antimicrobial (Cefoxitin and Temocillin) activities. This decent variety in the biological response profile has pulled in the consideration of numerous researchers to research this skeleton to its distinctive potential against several activities. This review is integral to prior reviews and plans to review the work regarding antibacterial and antifungal activities of thiophene, substituted thiophene and thiophene‐like compounds, and also Schiff bases of thiophene and substituted thiophenes from year 1995 to the beginning of 2018.

: Cancer is the world's second-largest cause of mortality and one of the biggest global health concerns. The prevalence and mortality rates of cancer remain high despite significant progress in cancer therapy. The search for more effective as well as less toxic treatment methods for cancer is at the focus of current studies. Thiophene and its derivatives have surged as an influential scaffold which, because of their appreciable diversity in biological activities, has pulled the concerned interest of the researchers in the field of medicinal chemistry. By the affluent introduction of its derivatives, which have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and anticancer activities, the adaptability of the thiophene moiety has been displayed. The nature and positioning of the substitutions significantly impacted thiophene moiety activity. This decent array in the living response account about this moiety has picked plentiful researcher’s consideration to inquire about it to its peculiar potential across certain activities. In the field of cancer therapy against different cancer cells, the structureactivity relationship for each of the derivatives showed an excellent understanding of thiophene moiety. Information from the various articles revealed the key role of thiophene moiety and its derivatives to develop the vital lead compound. The essential anticancer mechanisms identified include inhibition of the topoisomerase, inhibition of tyrosine kinase, tubulin interaction and apoptosis induction through activation of reactive oxygen species. This review is an endeavor to promote the anticancer potential of the derivatives whether having thiophene or condensed thiophene as a core moiety or as a substituent that can lead in the future to synthesize varieties of chemotherapeutic entities in the field of cancer treatment.