Research Article: Synthesis, Biological Evaluation and Molecular Modeling Studies of N-aryl-2-arylthioacetamides as Non-nucleoside HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
transcriptase inhibitors was synthesized and evaluated for their inhibitory activity against HIV‐1 (IIIB) replication in MT‐4 cell cultures. The compounds 2–4 were performed by the reaction of thiols and 2‐chloro‐N‐substituted‐acetamides and active in the lower micromolar concentration (1.25–20.83 μm). The studies of structure–activity relationship suggested that 1H‐benzo[d]imidazolering at arylthio