A novel series of S-alkylated, N-alkylated, and N-glycosylated 2-thiohydantoin derivatives were synthesized via the reaction of (E)-5-(arylidene)-1-phenyl-2-thiohydantoins 5a-d with alkyl halides/glycosyl bromides under aqueous, anhydrous alkaline/glycosylation conditions, respectively. The structures of the novel compounds were confirmed by elemental analyses and spectral data. Computational studies using DFT calculations with B3LYP/6-31 + G (d,p) level were performed to study the electronic and geometric properties obtained from the stable structure of the investigated compounds. A good correlation was found between the quantum chemical parameters and experimental observations. The synthesized derivatives exhibited good binding interactions towards the cyclin-dependent kinase 2, especially (E)-5-(chlorobenzylidene)-3-(2 0 0.3 0 0.4 0 0.6 0 -tetra-O-acetyl-β-D-galactopyranosyl)-1-phenyl-2-thiohydantoin (11g), which have good key interactions such as the co-crystallized ligand. In addition, it had selective cytotoxic activities with IC 50 = 12.4 μM against lung cancer A549 cells.