Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationships of Side-Chain-Substituted Analogs of the Allylamine Antimycotic Terbinafine Lacking the Central Amino Function
Terbinafine is a therapeutically used inhibitor of fungal squalene epoxidase that has prompted extensive derivatization programs for structure-activity relationship studies. In the present study, derivatives of terbinafine were synthesized that lack the central tertiary amino group but have polar substitutents at the tert-butyl residue of the side chain. Evaluation of the antifungal potential revealed