In this work, a novel series of pyridazine-triazole hybrid molecules were prepared and evaluated as inhibitors of rat intestinalα-glucosidase enzyme. Amongst all newly synthesized compounds,10kshowed good inhibition in the series with IC50value of 1.7 µM which is 100 folds stronger than positive control, acarbose. The cytotoxicity revealed that this compound is not toxic against normal cell line, HDF. The docking studies showed that triazole ring plays an important role in the binding interactions with the active site. The insertion of compound10kinto the active pocket ofα-glucosidase and formation of hydrogen bonds with Leu677 was observed from docking studies. The kinetic studies revealed that this compound has uncompetitive mode of inhibition againstα-glucosidase enzyme.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13065-023-00973-8.