Aryl/heteroaryl Substituted Celecoxib Derivatives as COX-2 Inhibitors: Synthesis, Anti-inflammatory Activity and Molecular Docking Studies

The bio-screening data, in vitro and in vivo anti-inflammatory activity and COX-2 enzymatic assay revealed that few N-substituteed aryl/heteroaryl-pyrazol-1-yl) benzene sulfonamides showed potent activity and compound 5e showed more potent COX-2 inhibit activity than that of parent drug, celecoxib and the standard, flufenamic acid. Moreover, all the newly synthesized title products were bonded well with good binding energies in the sight of COX-2 enzyme. Therefore, the described study might provide sustained information to the development of new series of derivatives with potent drug like activity.