Imidazole and its derivatives are the pharmacological significant scaffolds with the broad spectrum of activities can be synthesized in the laboratory in the single step by the action of the catalyst. The current review summarizes the role of the imidazole and its derivatives during the last decade (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014) for the treatment of many diseases. Review highlights their significant contribution towards the drug development for the treatment of some fatal diseases like HIV, cancer, tuberculosis and hepatitis C. As imidazole and its derivatives continue to play an important role for the treatment of many diseases so there is a need to trigger research in this field.
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Mini-reviewThis article was downloaded by you on: Oct 01, 2016 2009), anti-oxidant (Sorrenti et al., 2006) and antidepressant (Dostert et al., 1990) are the known examples.Synthesis of imidazole ring and its derivatives is carried out by using one-step condensation of diketone with aldehyde, ammonium acetate and primary aromatic amine in the presence of nanocrystalline magnesium aluminate (Safari et al., 2013), supported ionic liquidlike phase (Saffari Jourshari et al., 2013), SiO2-Pr-SO3H (Ziarani et al., 2013, clay supported titanium catalyst (Kannan and Sreekumar, 2013), brønsted acidic ionic liquid,(4-sulfobutyl)tris(4-sulfophenyl)phosphonium hydrogen sulfate (Banothu et al., 2013), nano-TiCl4.SiO2 (Mirjalili et al., 2012) I2/Cs2CO3 (Xue et al., 2014 and sulfonic acid functionalized SBA-15 nanoporous material (SBA-Pr-SO3H) catalyst .As imidazole and its derivatives are associated with a number of biological significances so the current review will emphasized on the role of imidazole and its derivative as potential candidate for the development of drugs to treat some fatal diseases including HIV-AIDS (de Walque, 2014), cancer (Fraser et al., 2014), hepatitis-C (Linas et al., 2014) and tuberculosis (Zoraghi and Reiner, 2013), etc.
Pharmacological SignificancesFrom the literature, it is found that imidazole and their derivatives they possess potent activities against fetal diseases and playing a significant role in a fight against them.
Anti-HIV activityAcquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a viral disease caused due to the special virus Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) (Basu et al., 2009). The HIV-1 type virus destroys the lymphocytes the 'helper cell' which fight against the infections (Roy and Leonard, 2005). According to World Health Organization report, three million people were suffering from AIDS and more than five million people acquire the AIDS in the single year (AIDS, 2003). As the HIV-AIDS is increasing globally and there is a need to introduce some new drugs to help in a fight against this fatal disease. In this regard imidazole and their derivatives are playing a significant role in the treatment of disease. During the course of drugs for the treatment of HIV-AIDS, the activity is mainly focused on the interaction of the compound with t...