Novel Pyrimidine‐based Ferrocenyl substituted Organometallic Compounds: Synthesis,Characterization and Biological Evaluation

Some novel pyrimidine‐based ferrocenyl substituted organometallic compounds were synthesized via multistep reactions, well characterized by different spectroscopic techniques and elemental analyses and evaluated for in vitro antiprotozoal susceptibility against HM1: IMSS strain of Entamoeba histolytica. The results of antiprotozoal susceptibility unveiled these compounds, as new leads in protozoal chemotherapy as most of the organometallics displayed an exceptionally higher antiamoebic activity (IC₅₀ = 0.055 μM ‐ 0.815 μM) than the reference drug metronidazole which gave IC₅₀ (50% inhibitory concentration) value 1.781 μM in our experiments, concluding that newly synthesized organometallic compounds have potential to be employed as effective antiamoebic agents and these organometallics can be very useful for further optimization work on amoebic chemotherapy.