“…Tacrine was the first AChE inhibitor to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for clinical use but the drug had a number of problematic side effects, primarily the elevation of toxicity of liver enzymes in AD patients, which was dose-dependent and reversible after a reduction in dosage or complete withdrawal (Unzeta et al, 2016). Over the years, a substantial number of tacrine derivatives and its analogues have been synthesized in an attempt to limit the side effects of the agent (Horak et al, 2017;Hroudová, Singh, Fišar, & Ghosh, 2016;Kračmárová, Drtinová, & Pohanka, 2015;Lee et al, 2015;Reddy et al, 2017;Teponnou, Joubert, & Malan, 2017). 2,3,tetrahydro-acridinamine hydrochlorides using the cholinergic drug tacrine as a base.…”