Mono- and di-quaternary salts of pyrimidylaminoquinolines, possessing trypanocidal activity and of the general formula Pq-NH-A, (wherein P represents a 2-, 4- (or 6-) amino-substituted pyrimidine nucleus which is attached to the -NH- linkage at another of the 2-, 4- (or 6-) positions and which may be further substituted in the remaining 2-, 4- (or 6-) position by an alkyl radical of not more than 5 carbon atoms or an amino group, A represents Q or Qq where Q is a quinoline nucleus which is substituted in the 2- or 4- position by an amino group and may be further substituted by an alkyl group of not more than 5 carbon atoms, and which bears the linking-NH- group in the 6-position, and the symbols q indicate that the preceding nuclei P and Q respectively are in the form of their quaternary salts), or tantomeric forms thereof, are manufactured by reacting a compound of the formula PqX (wherein X represents a halogen atom or a group -SR, R being a hydrocarbon radical, obtainable by the process of Specification 634,471) with a compound of the formula NH2A, or a salt thereof, or a substance which will give rise thereto under the reaction conditions (e.g. an acyl derivative thereof). The reaction may be effected by heating the reactants together, advantageously in a liquid medium and in the presence of an acid. In examples: (1) 2 - chloro - 4 - methyl - 6 - aminopyrimidine 3-methiodide is boiled with 4 : 6-diaminoquinaldine methochloride in dilute hydrochloric acid to produce 4-amino-6-(61-amino - 41 - methylpyrimidyl - 21 - amino) - quinaldine 1 : 31-dimethiodide; (2) 4-chloro-2-amino-6-methylpyrimidine 1-methiodide is boiled in water with 4 : 6-diaminoquinaldine methochloride hydrochloride, yielding 4-amino-6-(21-amino-61-methylpyrimidyl-41-amino) p -quinaldine 1 : 11-dimethiodide, or the tantomeric 4-amino-6-(21-imino-11 : 61-dimethyl-11 : 21-dihydropyrimidyl-41-amino)-quinaldine 1-methiodide hydriodide or 4-imino-1-methyl-6-(21-amino-61-methylpyrimidyl -41-amino)-1 : 4-dihydroquinaldine 11-methiodide hydriodide or 4-imino-1-methyl-6-(21-imino-11 : 61-dimethyldihydropyrimidyl-41-amino)-1 : 4-dihydroquinaldine dihydriodide; the product may be converted into the dimethochloride by treating an aqueous solution thereof with hydrochloric acid or sodium chloride, or into the dimethobromide by analogous treatment; (3) the pyrimidine reactant in (2) is replaced by 4-iodo-2-amino-6-methylpyrimidine 3-methiodide, producing the corresponding 1 : 31-dimethiodide, which may be converted with silver chloride into the dimethochloride and with sodium carbonate solution into 4-amino-6-(21-imino-31 : 61-dimethyl-2 : 3-dihydropyrimidyl-41-amino)-quinaldine 1-methiodide; (4) 4 : 6-diaminoquinaldine methochloride is heated with 2-amino-4-methylthio6-methylpyrimidine 1-methiodide to give the product of (2); (5) the quinaldine reactant in (3) is replaced by 4 : 6-diaminoquinaldine methiodide; (6) the pyrimidine reactant in (5) is replaced by 4-chloro-2 : 6-diaminopyrimidine 3-methiodide, and (7) by the corresponding 1-methiodide; (8) 4 : 6-diaminoquinoline methiodide is reacted as in (2); (9) the quinaldine reactant of (2) is replaced by 2 : 6-diaminolepidine methiodide; (10) 4-amino-6-acetylaminoquinaldine 1-metho-methylsulphate and 4-chloro-2-amino-6-methylpyrimidine 1-methomethylsulphate are reacted as in (1) and the product is treated with hydrochloric acid to give the dimethochloride of (2); (11) the pyrimidine reactant of (10) is replaced by the 1-methiodide; (12) 4 : 6-diaminoquinaldine and 4-chloro-2 : 6-diaminopyrimidine 3-methiodide are reacted as in (1) to produce 4-amino-6-(21 : 61-diaminopyrimidyl-41-amino)-quinaldine 31-methiodide hydriodide; (13) 4 : 6 - diaminoquinaldine ethiodide is reacted as in (2). Specification 634,531 also is referred to. 4 : 6-Diaminoquinaldinium salts.-The methochloride hydrochloride is obtainable by treating 4-amino-6-acetylaminoquinaldine with dimethyl sulphate in nitrobenzene and refluxing the product with aqueous hydrochloric acid. It may be converted into the methochloride by the action of sodium carbonate solution and into the methiodide by the action of a solution of sodium carbonate and excess of potassium iodide. The ethiodide is obtainable by treating 4-amino-6-acetylaminoquinaldine with diethyl sulphate in nitrobenzene, treating the product with sodium iodide solution, hydrolysing with hydrochloric acid and adding sodium carbonate and sodium iodide. 4 : 6-Diaminoquinoline methiodide is obtainable from ethyl 6-acetylamino-4-hydroxyquinoline-2-carboxylate by saponification, decarboxylation, treatment with phosphorous oxychloride and then with ammonia in the presence of phenol, quaternation of the resulting 4-amino-6-acetylaminoquinoline by means of dimethyl sulphate in nitrobenzene, hydrolysis with hydrochloric acid and treatment with sodium carbonate and sodium iodide. 2 : 6-Diaminolepidine methiodide is obtainable from 2-chloro-6-nitrolepidine by treatment with ammonia in the presence of phenol and acetamide, quaternation with dimethyl sulphate in nitrobenzene, treatment with excess of sodium chloride, reduction of the nitro group with iron and methanolic hydrochloric acid and treatment with sodium carbonate and sodium iodide.
Quaternary salts of pyrimidylaminoquinolines in which either the 2-position of the pyrimidine nucleus or the 4-position of the quinoline nucleus, or both, are substituted by an amino- or lower alkylamino-group, the -NH- linking is in the 4 : 61-positions respectively, and each nucleus may be optionally substituted by alkyl groups, are obtained by heating the quaternary compound bearing ether and/or thioether groups in the above-mentioned 2- and/or 4-positions with ammonia or lower alkylamines in a solvent. In examples, pyrimidylaminoquinoline quaternary salts having methyl thio-, or benzylthio in the 2-pyrimidyl, and 4-quinoline, positions, and/or having methoxy, ethoxy, or phenoxy in the 4-quinoline position, with amino and methyl groups as other substituents are converted into the corresponding amine or alkylamine with ammonia or ethylamine in various solvents. There is described also the preparation, as starting materials, of the quaternary satls of pyrimidylamino-quinolines substituted as required above by amino, and methyl groups and having methylthio, benzylthio, alkoxy or phenoxy groups in the required positions by the condensation of the corresponding halogenated pyrimidine ether or thioether with an aminoquinoline, or the halogenated pyrimidine with an aminoquinoline ether or thioether, non-reacting amino groups being acetylated and later hydrolysed, if necessary, and with intermediate or subsequent conversion to the quaternary salts. 6-Acetylamino and 6-amino-4-methyl, 4-benzylthio-ethers, or 4-methyl, ethyl and phenyl ethers of quinoline or quinaldine are obtained by the action of the corresponding mercaptan-, alcohol- or phenol-sodium salt or a mixture producing these, on the 4-halogen- or 4-hydroxy-quinoline compound, followed if necessary by hydrolysing the acetylamino-group. Specifications 634,531, 634,818, 658,203 and 658,204 are referred to.
Di-quaternary salts of pyrimidylamino-quinolines having trypanodical properties are obtained by treating a pyrimidylamino-quinoline in which either the pyrimidine or the quinoline compound is in the form of a quaternary salt, and may be as described below, with a quaternary salt forming agent, such as methyl iodide, dimethyl sulphate and methyl p-toluene sulphonate. In the examples the pyrimidine nucleus is substituted in the 2-, 4- (or 6-) position by lower alkylamino, e.g. methyl-, and isopropylamino, or amino-groups, in another of these positions by a lower alkyl radical, e.g. methyl, or amino, or a lower alkylamino group, and is attached to the linking -NH- group at the remaining 2-, 4-(or 6-) positions, while the quinoline nucleus is substituted in the 4-position by an amino- or lower alkylamino-group, e.g. methylamino-, ethylamino-, and further by a lower alkyl group or groups, e.g. 2-methyl, and bears the linking -NH- group in the 6-position. If the 4-substituent in the quinoline nucleus is not lower alkylamino-, the pyrimidine nucleus must contain a lower alkylamino-group. The di-quaternary salts described include methiodides, and metho - p - toluene sulphonates, mostly being converted ultimately into the former, from other intermediate quaternary salts, such as the methyl sulphate. Pyrimidylaminoquinolines and their monoquaternary salts used as initial materials, substituted as described, may be obtained by condensing a suitably substituted 6-amino-quinoline or its quaternary salt with a 4-chloro-pyrimidine or its quaternary salt dehydrating the monohydrate obtained if necessary, and replacing the quaternary group if required, e.g. the hydriodides to the methiodides. 4-Methyl and ethyl-amino-6-aminoquinolines are obtained by hydrolysis of the N-acetyl derivatives. Specification 658,203 is referred to.