In the present research work, the motto was to develop new chemical entities as potential anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic agents. Various 4-(2-amino-6-(substituted)pyrimidin-4-yl)-3-methyl-1-(substituted)-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-one derivatives (5a-5j) and their Schiff bases (6a-6j) were synthesized. The newly synthesized compounds were characterized by TLC and spectral data. The compounds containing pyrazolone and amino pyrimidine as basic moieties (5a-5j), were screened for their anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic activities, compounds 5a, 5c-5f, 5h exhibited activities nearly similar to the standard. The pharmacological studies reveal that the presence of 4-hydroxy, 4-methoxy, 4-(N,N-dimethylamino) or 2-hydroxy groups on phenyl ring at C6 of amino pyrimidine exhibits anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic activities nearly similar to the standard and substitutions like 4-chloro, 2-nitro, 3-nitro or 4-nitro on same phenyl ring lead to a decrease in activities.

Strategies for CADD vary depending on the extent of structural and other information available regarding the target (enzyme/receptor) and the ligands. Computer-aided drug design (CADD) is an exciting and diverse discipline where various aspects of applied and basic research merge and stimulate each other. In the early stage of a drug discovery process, researchers may be faced with little or no structure activity relationship (SAR) information. The process by which a new drug is brought to market stage is referred to by a number of names most commonly as the development chain or "pipeline" and consists of a number of distinct stages. To design a rational drug, we must firstly find out which proteins can be the drug targets in pathogenesis. In present review we reported a brief history of CADD, DNA as target, receptor theory, structure optimization, structure-based drug design, virtual high-throughput screening (vHTS), graph machines.

A QSAR study was performed on a series of substituted pyrazolone derivatives. The compounds in the selected series were characterized by spatial, molecular and electrotopological descriptors using QSAR module of molecular design suite (V-Life MDS 4.0). In present research paper we reported 2D-QSAR studies of substituted pyrazolone derivatives. Correlations between inhibitory activities and calculated predictor variables were established through partial least square regression (stepwise forward) method.

Several 1-(substituted)-3-methyl-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-one as RA1-RA9 were synthesized and compounds were screened for antitumor activity against Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (EAC) cells and antimicrobial activity. Elemental analysis, mass spectral data, 1H-NMR, and IR confirmed the structure of the newly synthesized compounds. Some of the tested compounds showed good antitumor and antimicrobial activity. Compounds RA1, RA4, and RA9 exhibit highest antitumor activity against EAC cells in comparison with 5-flurouracil as standard drug.Keywords: Ehrlich ascites carcinoma; Pyrazolone; Antitumor; N-substitution; Antimicrobial.© 2012 JSR Publications. ISSN: 2070-0237 (Print); 2070-0245 (Online). All rights reserved.doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jsr.v4i1.7027 J. Sci. Res. 4 (1), 183-192 (2012)

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