The linkage between metal nodes and organic linkers has led to the development of new porous crystalline materials called metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). These have found significant potential applications in different areas such as gas storage and separation, chemical sensing, heterogeneous catalysis, biomedicine, proton conductivity, and others. Overall, MOFs are outstanding candidates for next-generation energy storage devices, and they have recently attracted the greater devotion of the scientific community worldwide. MOFs can be used to enhance the ability of a device to store energy due to their unique morphology, controllable structures, high surface area, and permanent porosity. MOFs are widely used in super capacitors (SCs), metal (Li, Na, and K) ion batteries, and lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) and act as a promising candidate to store energy in an environmentally friendly way. MOFs are also used as efficient materials with better recyclability, efficiency, and capacity retention. In this review, first we summarize the material design, chemical compositions, and physical structure of MOFs and afterward, we highlight the most recent development and understanding in this area, mainly focusing on various practical applications of MOFs in energy storage devices.

2-Oxindole based natural products and bioactive molecules.

Quinoline and its derivatives are part of several natural products. Many of them are active pharmacophores and show enormous biological activities. Owing to their usefulness in drug discovery, we have discussed the plethora of quinoline derivatives showing particularly antibacterial and antifungal activities in this article. Depending upon substitution on the quinoline core, change of functionalities at different positions and change in chain length; unique biological properties are associated with such derivatives of quinolines and in this article, we have delineated the antibacterial and antifungal activities of such activities in detail. In most of the cases, it has been found that substitution at the 5-position leads to enhanced bioactivities. In most cases, 5-halo/5-amino/5-aryl and heteroaryl/5-carbonyl/5-amido show promising antibacterial and antifungal activities. Furthermore, the synthetic aspects of several quinoline derivatives showing antibacterial and antifungal activities are also discussed in this article.

An important bioactive heterocycle having several uses in medicinal chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, material chemistry, and natural product is indole along with its analogues. Many bioactive indole-based heterocycles have important antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antiviral, antimalarial, chemotherapeutic, antifungal, and anti-TB effects, as well as antioxidant capabilities. Several well-known medications, including tadalafil, rizatriptan, sumatriptan, and fluvastatin are indole- based potential bioactive compounds. Based on the existing and latest evidence, researchers have focused on developing indole-based compounds with novel biological and pharmacological properties for decades. Owing to useful bioactivities, we have described many bioactive indoles and their synthetic methods in this review article.

Quinoline-based molecules are major constituents in natural products, active pharmacophores, and have excellent biological activities. Using 2H-thiopyrano[2,3-b]quinoline derivatives and CB1a protein (PDB ID: 2IGR), the molecular docking study has been revealed in this article. The study of in silico molecular docking analysis of such derivatives to determine the binding affinity, residual interaction, and hydrogen bonding of several 2H-thiopyrano[2,3-b]quinolines against CB1a is reported here. The current work demonstrated that 2H-thiopyrano[2,3-b]quinoline derivatives could be effective antitumor agents to produce potent anticancer medicines in the near future.

This study presented the bioactive lead(II) compounds of oxazine and thiazine Schiff-bases using NMR (1H, 13C), FT-infrared spectroscopy, UV-visible, molar conductance, elemental analysis and molecular weight. The molecular parameters e.g. bond length, bond angle, HOMO/LUMO energy gap and softness/hardness was calculated by DFT-B3LYP/Lanl2dz basis set. According to the spectral data, the Schiff-base coordinated to the lead atom in bidentate mode. A theoretical DFT computational investigation was conducted to supplement the experimental data. The antibacterial activity of lead complexes against E. coli (–) and S. aureus (+) bacteria was determined by disc-diffusion method. Lead complexes of thiazine derivatives are more active than oxazine derivatives. In order to better understand the molecular interaction and binding mode of the drugs, a molecular docking study has been carried out on the protein 3q8u (NDK) from S. aureus. A docking investigation with the NDK protein (S. aureus) revealed that compound 1h has the highest binding affinity (-8.18 Kcal/mol) among the eight ligands (1a-h).