Certain substituted naphthofurans with anti-tumor properties
申请人:Burroughs Wellcome Co.
公开号:US05008286A1
公开(公告)日:1991-04-16
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) ArCH.sub.2 R.sup.1 (I) or a monomethyl or monethyl ether thereof (the compound of formula (I) including these ethers may contain no more than 29 carbon atoms in total); ethers, esters thereof; acide addition salts thereof; wherein Ar is a fused tricyclic aromatic ring system containing a maximum of 14 ring atoms and at least one heteroatom or a fused pentacyclic ring system with at least 4 aromatic rings containing a maximum of 22 ring atoms and at least one heteroatom; or a substituted derivative thereof; for either the tricyclic or pentacyclic ring system there is a maximum of one heteroatom for each ring present but preferably only one or two of the rings contain a heteroatom; the rings forming the tricyclic or the pentacyclic ring system contain five or six atoms; the heteroatoms are conveniently nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulfur or selenium; suitably the heteroatom is oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen; the tricyclic or the pentacyclic ring system should be planar or deviate only slightly from planarity; suitably the ring system is aromatic or contains one non-aromatic ring; preferably the ring system is aromatic; nitrogen atoms contained in five-membered rings are substituted by hydrogen, methyl or ethyl; R.sup.1 contains not more than eight carbon atoms and is a group ##STR1## wherein m is 0 or 1; R.sup.5 is hydrogen; R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are the same or different and each is hydrogen or C.sub.1-5 alkyl optionally substituted by hydroxy; R.sup.8 and R.sup.9 are the same or different and each is hydrogen or C.sub.1-3 alkyl; ##STR2## is a five or six-membered saturated carbocyclic ring; R.sup.10 is hydrogen, methyl or hydroxymethyl; R.sup.11, R.sup.12 and R.sup.13 are the same or different and each is hydrogen or methyl; R.sup.14 is hydrogen, methyl, hydroxy, or hydroxymethyl. The compounds have biocidal properties.
New beta-substituted benzo- and naphthofuryl derivatives (5, 6 and 7) of o-divinylbenzene, were synthesized and irradiated in order to form annelated bicyclo[3.2.1]octadienes. While 2-[2-(2-vinylphenyl)ethenyl]benzo[b]furan (5) upon irradiation gives the bicyclo[3.2.1]octadiene derivative (12) in 65% yield, 2-[2-(2-vinylphenyl) ethenyl]naphtho[2,1-b]furan (6) and 2-[2-(2-vinylphenyl)ethenyl]naphtho[1,2-b]furan (7), undergo cis-trans-isomerization but not form intramolecular photocycloaddition products. The mechanism of the intramolecular [2+2] photocycloaddition is explained via intermediate (17) which was proved by the formation of products (18) and (19), by irradiation in methanol and deuteromethanol.