Title:Coumarin as a Privileged and Medicinally Important Scaffold in the
Treatment of Tuberculosis
Volume: 23
Issue: 16
Author(s): Vaibhav Gupta, Ramesh Ambatwar, Neeru Bhanwala and Gopal L. Khatik*
Affiliation:
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, 226002, India
Keywords:
Coumarin, Natural product, Tuberculosis, Anti-tubercular, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Bis-coumarin.
Abstract: Coumarin and its derivatives, which are abundant in nature, have a significant role in
medicinal chemistry due to their ability to bind with different targets or receptors. In addition, these
possess a wide range of biological activity. Thus coumarin-based scaffold has inspired even further
research into coumarin and its substituted derivatives, allowing for the creation of a huge variety of
structurally different substituted products. In recent, these were reported to have potent antitubercular
activity. Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious deadly infectious bacterial disease caused by grampositive
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This review discusses various developments going on in the
field of medicinal chemistry towards designing, synthesizing, and discovering coumarin-based antitubercular
agents all across the globe.