A compound which consists of a proactive alkylating moiety containing an electron-withdrawing group, a bioreductive moiety containing at least two double bonds, and a linker joining the proactive alkylating moiety and the bioreductive moiety.
The present invention relates to bis(haloethyl)aminobenzene derivatives featured by having carboxyl-containing moiety and one other moiety at the ortho position with respect to the bis(haloethyl)amino substituent of the benzene ring. The moiety at the ortho position can be alkyl, cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, aryl heteroaryl, alkyl(cycloalkyl), alkyl(heterocycloalkyl), alkyl(heteroaryl), alkyl(aryl), --(--O-alkyl).sub.2-5 or --Y.sup.1 --Y.sup.2 in which Y.sup.1 is O, S, or N(R.sup.5) wherein R.sup.5 is hydrogen or alkyl, and Y.sup.2 is alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, aryl, heteroacryl, alkyl(cycloalkyl), alkyl(hetero-cycloalkyl), alkyl(aryl), or alkyl(heteroaryl).