The present invention relates to certain nitroimidazole compounds, which have interesting pharmaceutical properties. In particular, the compounds are useful in the treatment and/or prevention of infections such as those caused by
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Trypanosoma cruzi
or
Leishmania donovani
. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, as well as processes for their preparation.
Substituted rifamycin derivatives in which a nitroimidazole, nitrothiazole or nitrofuran pharmacophore is covalently bonded to a rifamycin, methods of using the rifamycin derivatives, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the rifamycin derivatives are disclosed. Methods of synthesizing these substituted rifamycin derivatives are also disclosed. The rifamycin derivatives possess antibacterial activity, and are effective against a number of human and veterinary pathogens in the treatment of bacterial diseases.
The current invention provides a series of bicyclic nitroimidazole-substituted phenyl oxazolidinones in which a bicyclic nitroimidazole pharmacophore is covalently bonded to a phenyl oxazolidinone, their pharmaceutical compositions, and the method of use of the compositions for prevention and treatment of bacterial infections. The bicyclic nitroimidazole-substituted phenyl oxazolidinones possess surprising antibacterial activity against wild-type and resistant strains of pathogens, and are therefore useful for the prevention, control and treatment of a number of human and veterinary bacterial infections caused by these pathogens, such as
Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Synthesis, Reduction Potentials, and Antitubercular Activity of Ring A/B Analogues of the Bioreductive Drug (6<i>S</i>)-2-Nitro-6-{[4-(trifluoromethoxy)benzyl]oxy}-6,7-dihydro-5<i>H</i>-imidazo[2,1-<i>b</i>][1,3]oxazine (PA-824)
作者:Andrew M. Thompson、Adrian Blaser、Robert F. Anderson、Sujata S. Shinde、Scott G. Franzblau、Zhenkun Ma、William A. Denny、Brian D. Palmer
DOI:10.1021/jm801087e
日期:2009.2.12
The nitroimidazooxazine S-1 (PA-824) is a new class of bioreductive drug for tuberculosis. A series of related bicyclic nitroheterocycles was synthesized, designed to have a wide range of one-electron reduction potentials E(1) (from -570 to -338 mV, compared with -534 mV for S-1). The observed E(l) values closely correlated with the sigma(m) values of the heteroatom at the 4/8-position of the adjacent six-membered ring. Although the compounds spanned a range of E(1) values around that of S-1, only the nitroimidazothiazines showed significant antitubercular activity (at a similar level of potency), suggesting that E(1) is not the main driver of efficacy. Furthermore, there was a correlation between activity and the formation of imidazole ring-reduced products at the two-electron level, pointing to the potential importance of this reduction pathway, which is determined by the nature of the substituent at the 2-position of the 4-nitroimidazole ring.