“… 22 Recently, the chalcone scaffold has attracted considerable interest from researchers in the field of drug discovery and development. 23 Chalcone derivatives exhibited a variety of pharmaceutical activities such as anti-inflammatory, 24 antiviral, antimalarial, antibacterial, anticancer, antifungal, antioxidant, anti-inflammation, anti-HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, tyrosinase inhibitor, anti-plasmodial, α-glucosidase inhibitory, and protein kinase C inhibitor effects. 25 In particular, metochalcone and sofalcone are clinically approved drugs for the treatment of choleretic and gastrointestinal diseases, respectively.…”