“…Accordingly, and in continuation of our ongoing research (Boulos et al, 2013a;El-Sayed et al, 2016;Ewies et al, 2014;Ewies et al, 2015;Ewies et al, 2016a;Ewies et al, 2016b;Ewies et al, 2019;Ibrahim et al, 2015, El-Husseiny et al, 2020El-Sayed et al, 2020) toward obtaining new compounds as promising biological activities and based on F I G U R E 2 Design of target compounds 5a-j, 6a,b, 7a-e, and 8a-f the previously reported findings regarding the biological activity of benzofuran and indole nucleus, we focused our attention on exploring the possibility of replacement of the 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoyl moiety at position 2 of compound IV with a fluoro or trifluoromethyl substituted phenyl diazinyl moiety as in compounds 5a-j, 6a,b, and 8a-f. Both fluorine substituent or trifluoromethyl group are known to induce high effect on the binding affinity and increase stability of cell membrane as well as its permeability against metabolic oxidation (Usachev et al, 2008;Usachev et al, 2012).…”