Pyrimido[4,5-g]quinazoline quinone derivatives were synthesized as anthranone-like reductive alkylating agents. Like many naturally-occurring antibiotics, these quinone derivatives are designed to afford an alkylating quinone methide species upon reduction and leaving group elimination. Kinetic studies of pyrimido[4,5-g]quinazoline hydroquinones provided evidence of quinone methide intermediates able to trap nucleophiles (alkylation) and protons. The rate of quinone methide formation is determined by the hydroquinone free energy. Thus, a linear free energy relationship for quinone methide formation was obtained by plotting rates of quinone methide formation, as the log, versus the quinone reduction potential. The pyrimido[4-5-g]quinazoline quinone methides fall on this free energy plot, showing that these species are formed by the same mechanism as the other structurally-diverse quinone methides previously studied in this research group. A drawback of many quinone antibiotics, particularly the anthracyclines, is the formation of toxic oxygen species by quinone/hydroquinone cycling. In the present invention pyrimido[4,5-g]quinazoline hydroquinones are found to be relatively stable toward oxygen, and thus cause little oxygen toxicity. Antitumor screening revealed that the disclosed pyrimido[4,5-g]quinazoline dione derivatives possess excellent inhibitory activity against selected human cancer cell lines. The pyrimido[4,5g]quinazoline-diones have the following structural formulae: ##STR1## wherein: R is H or CH.sub.3 ; and X is Cl or Br.
                            合成了
嘧啶并[4,5-g]
喹唑啉醌衍
生物作为类
蒽醌还原烷基化试剂。与许多天然抗生素一样,这些醌衍
生物旨在在还原和离去基消除后提供烷基化醌
甲烷物种。
嘧啶并[4,5-g]
喹唑啉羟醌的动力学研究提供了醌
甲烷中间体的证据,能够捕获亲核试剂(烷基化)和质子。醌
甲烷形成的速率由羟醌自由能决定。因此,通过绘制醌还原电位的对数,以及醌
甲烷形成速率,得到了醌
甲烷形成的线性自由能关系。
嘧啶并[4-5-g]
喹唑啉醌
甲烷落在这个自由能图上,表明这些物种是通过与先前在该研究小组中研究的其他结构多样的醌
甲烷相同的机制形成的。许多
醌类抗生素,特别是
蒽环素的缺点是通过醌/羟醌循环形成有毒氧化物质。在本发明中,发现
嘧啶并[4,5-g]
喹唑啉羟醌相对稳定于
氧气,因此产生的氧毒性很小。抗肿瘤筛选显示,所述的
嘧啶并[4,5-g]
喹唑啉二酮衍
生物对选择的人类癌
细胞系具有优异的抑制活性。
嘧啶并[4,5-g]
喹唑啉二酮的结构式为:其中:R为H或
CH3;X为Cl或Br。