A series of new sulfide and sulfone 1,2,4-trioxanes was prepared in only a few steps from commercial reactants. The sulfone trioxanes were found to have higher in vitro antimalarial potencies than the sulfides, with 12 beta-arylsulfone trioxanes 1 beta being from 1/3 to 1/4 as potent as the complex natural antimalarial trioxane artemisinin (2). A tentative chemical mechanism is proposed to account for the great difference in antimalarial activity of the 12 alpha-vs. 12 beta-sulfide trioxanes. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Antimalarial sulfide, sulfone, and sulfonamide trioxanes
摘要:
A series of trioxanes featuring sulfide, sulfone. and sulfonamide snbstituents in diverse positions has been prepared. Structure-activity relationship (SAR) generalizations highlight two major factors controlling the antimalarial potency of these new chemical entities: (1) the proximity of the sulfur-containing substituent to the crucial peroxide bond and (2) the oxidation stale of the sulfur-containing substituent. Generally, sulfones are more antimalarially potent than the corresponding sulfides. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.