“…The same research team also described a novel series of tacrine derivatives, compounds 8a–d and 9a–d , with an ethyl‐piperazine spacer linked with corresponding secondary amines, the novel tacrine homodimer 10 (Hamulakova et al, ), and the series of homodimeric tacrine–tacrine thioureas, derivatives 13a–c , all of which exhibited modest AChE and BChE inhibitory activity with IC 50 values in the low nanomolar range (Hamulakova, Imrich, Janovec, et al, ). A further study from this group also described the synthesis of another series of novel tacrine derivatives and tacrine/coumarine heterodimers, derivatives 14a–c , 15a–c and 16a–c , which were found to be potent AChE and BChE inhibitors with IC 50 values in the micromolar range.…”