作者:G.E Grella、M.C Cabras、G Murineddu、A Pau、G.A Pinna
DOI:10.1016/s0928-0987(03)00197-0
日期:2003.11
Designed as a new series of so called "bivalent ligand" containing the proposed 2-benzylnaphthimidazole-type structure, a number of 2-benzylnaphth[2,3-d]imidazoles, bearing various substituents, have been prepared by a synthetic approach involving an heterocyclization of 2,3-diaminonaphthalene 4 with appropriate imidates 3 (for 1b-i) followed by alkylation (for 1j-1) with the desired alkylating agent. Compounds 1b-f, h-1 were subjected to primary biological evaluation for cancer cell growth inhibition (one-dose, three-cell assay), and the four most active terms, 1c, h, i and j, were then evaluated for their cytotoxic profiles in the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) human disease-oriented, 60 cell line, in vitro antitumor screening protocol. Among them, two compounds (1h and 1i) are the most representatives demonstrating not only high growth-inhibitory activities against some leukemia cancer cells, but also fairly good activities against the growth of certain cell lines of some solid tumors. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.