Treatment of HIV infections and compounds useful therein
申请人:Uniroyal Chemical Company, Inc.
公开号:US05693827A1
公开(公告)日:1997-12-02
A method of inhibiting the growth or replication of viruses of the HIV group is disclosed. Also disclosed are compounds useful in the method and pharmaceutical formulations incorporating such compounds. The method involves the use of compounds having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein the substituent groups are as defined in the specification.
Nitroimidazoles are a well-known class of antibacterial and antiprotozoal drugs but in spite of the widespread clinical and veterinary use of these drugs, this family has been stigmatized in part due to associated genotoxicity problems. Here we report the synthesis, the anti-trypanosomal activity and a structure–activity relationship (SAR) study of a series of about fifty 1-aryl-4-nitro-1H-imidazoles