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Yang J, Wang Y, Guan W, Su W, Li G, Zhang S, Yao H. Spiral molecules with antimalarial activities: A review. Eur J Med Chem 2022; 237:114361. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2022.114361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2022] [Revised: 04/03/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Synthesis of novel 1,2,4-trioxanes and antimalarial evaluation against multidrug-resistant Plasmodium yoelii nigeriensis. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2021; 49:128305. [PMID: 34365007 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2021.128305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2021] [Revised: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Malaria epidemics represent one of the life-threatening diseases to low-income lying countries which subsequently affect the economic and social condition of mankind. In continuation in the development of a novel series of 1,2,4-trioxanes 13a1-c1, 13a2-c2, and 13a3-c3 have been prepared and further converted into their hemisuccinate derivatives 14a1-c1, 14a2-c2, and 14a3-c3 respectively. All these new compounds were evaluated for their antimalarial activity against multidrug-resistant Plasmodium yoelii nigeriensis in mice by both oral and intramuscular (im) routes. Hydroxy-functionalized trioxane 13a1 showed 80% protection and its hemisuccinate derivative 14a1 showed 100% protection at a dose of 48 mg/kg × 4 days by both routes, which is twice active than artemisinin by oral route.
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Tiwari MK, Coghi P, Agrawal P, Yadav DK, Yang LJ, Congling Q, Sahal D, Wai Wong VK, Chaudhary S. Novel halogenated arylvinyl-1,2,4 trioxanes as potent antiplasmodial as well as anticancer agents: Synthesis, bioevaluation, structure-activity relationship and in-silico studies. Eur J Med Chem 2021; 224:113685. [PMID: 34303874 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2021.113685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Revised: 06/13/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Herein, we have synthesized a series of lipophilic, halogenated-arylvinyl-1,2,4-trioxanes 8a-g (28 compounds) and assessed for their in vitro anti-plasmodial activity in Plasmodium falciparum culture using SYBRgreen-I fluorescence assay against chloroquine-resistant Pf INDO and artemisinin-resistant Pf Cam 3.1R539T (MRA-1240) strains. Alongside, the cell cytotoxic potential of 8a-g has also been determined against the HEK293 cell line in vitro. Out of twenty-eight halogenated-arylvinyl-1,2,4-trioxanes; ten analogues (8a2, 8a4, 8b2, 8b4, 8d4, 8e1, 8e2, 8e4,8f2, and 8g4) have shown potent in vitro antiplasmodial activity with IC50 < 27 nM (IC50 range = 4.48-26.58 nM). Also, the selectivity index (SI) for these ten analogues were found in the range of 72.00-3972.50 which indicates their selective potential towards Plasmodium cells. Results of the cell cycle stage specificity with two of the most potent compounds 8a4 {(IC50 = 4.48 nM; SI = 3972.50) more potent than chloroquine (IC50 = 546 nM; SI = 36.64) and artesunate (IC50 = 6.6 nM; SI = 4333.33)} and 8e2 (IC50 = 9.69 nM; SI = 1348) against Pf INDO indicated all three stages to be the target of the action of 8e2 while only rings and trophozoites appeared to be targeted by 8a4. Ring stage survival assay against artemisinin-resistant Pf Cam 3.1R539T indicated that 8a4 may be well suited to replace artemisinin from current ACTs which are experiencing in vivo delayed parasite clearance. With intraperitoneal (i.p.) and oral (p.o.) route at the dose of 50 mg/kg/day × 4 days; 8a4 has also shown 100% suppression of parasitemia in P. berghei ANKA infected Balb C mice. Further, the in vitro anticancer activity of 8a-g performed against human lung (A549) and liver (HepG2) cancer cell lines as also against immortalized normal lung (BEAS-2B) and liver (LO2) cell lines has revealed that most of the derivatives are endowed also with promising anticancer activity (IC50 = 0.69-15 μM; SI = 1.02-20.61) in comparison with standard drugs such as chloroquine (IC50 = 100 μM; SI = 0.03), artemisinin (IC50 = 100 μM), and artesunic acid (IC50 = 9.85 μM; SI = 0.76), respectively. All the derivatives have shown moderate anticancer activity against liver (HepG2) cancer cell lines. Arylvinyl-1,2,4-trioxanes 8f2 (IC50 = 0.69 μM; SI = 16.66), the most active compound of the series, has shown ∼145 fold more cytotoxic potential with higher selectivity in comparison to reference drugs chloroquine (IC50 = 100 μM; SI = 0.03) and artemisinin (IC50 = 100 μM), respectively against the lung (A549) cancer cell line. Finally, the in-silico docking studies of the potent halogenated 1,2,4-trioxanes along with reference drug molecules against epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR; PDB ID: 1M17) have demonstrated the strong virtual interaction.
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- Mohit K Tiwari
- Laboratory of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, Jaipur, 302017, India
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, Macau, China; School of Pharmacy, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida wai long, Taipa, Macau, China
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- Malaria Drug Discovery Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, 110 067, New Delhi, India
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- College of Pharmacy, Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Hambakmoeiro 191, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon city, 406-799, South Korea
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- Dr. Neher's Biophysics Laboratory for Innovative Drug Discovery, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China
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- Dr. Neher's Biophysics Laboratory for Innovative Drug Discovery, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China
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- Malaria Drug Discovery Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, 110 067, New Delhi, India.
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- Dr. Neher's Biophysics Laboratory for Innovative Drug Discovery, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China.
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- Laboratory of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, Jaipur, 302017, India; Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Raebareli (Transit Campus), Bijnor-Sisendi Road, Near CRPF Base Camp, Sarojini Nagar, Lucknow, U.P, 226 002, India.
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Gupta AK, Varshney K, Kumar V, Srivastava K, Pant AB, Puri SK, Saxena AK. Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Novel 1,2,4-Trioxanes as Potential Antimalarial Agents. Arch Pharm (Weinheim) 2017; 350. [DOI: 10.1002/ardp.201600335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2016] [Revised: 01/22/2017] [Accepted: 01/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Amit K. Gupta
- Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow India
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- Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow India
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- In Vitro Toxicology Laboratory; CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research; Lucknow India
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- Division of Parasitology; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow India
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- In Vitro Toxicology Laboratory; CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research; Lucknow India
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- Division of Parasitology; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow India
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- Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division; CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Lucknow India
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Terent'ev AO, Borisov DA, Vil’ VA, Dembitsky VM. Synthesis of five- and six-membered cyclic organic peroxides: Key transformations into peroxide ring-retaining products. Beilstein J Org Chem 2014; 10:34-114. [PMID: 24454562 PMCID: PMC3896255 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.10.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2013] [Accepted: 11/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The present review describes the current status of synthetic five and six-membered cyclic peroxides such as 1,2-dioxolanes, 1,2,4-trioxolanes (ozonides), 1,2-dioxanes, 1,2-dioxenes, 1,2,4-trioxanes, and 1,2,4,5-tetraoxanes. The literature from 2000 onwards is surveyed to provide an update on synthesis of cyclic peroxides. The indicated period of time is, on the whole, characterized by the development of new efficient and scale-up methods for the preparation of these cyclic compounds. It was shown that cyclic peroxides remain unchanged throughout the course of a wide range of fundamental organic reactions. Due to these properties, the molecular structures can be greatly modified to give peroxide ring-retaining products. The chemistry of cyclic peroxides has attracted considerable attention, because these compounds are used in medicine for the design of antimalarial, antihelminthic, and antitumor agents.
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Key Words
- 1,2,4,5-tetraoxanes
- 1,2,4-trioxanes
- 1,2,4-trioxolanes
- 1,2-dioxanes
- 1,2-dioxenes
- 1,2-dioxolanes
- cyclic peroxides
- ozonides
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- Alexander O Terent'ev
- N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 47, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 47, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 47, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 47, Moscow, 119991, Russia
- Institute for Drug Research, P.O. Box 12065, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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Yadav N, Sharma C, Awasthi SK. Diversification in the synthesis of antimalarial trioxane and tetraoxane analogs. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c3ra42513d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Maurya R, Soni A, Anand D, Ravi M, Raju KSR, Taneja I, Naikade NK, Puri SK, Wahajuddin, Kanojiya S, Yadav PP. Synthesis and antimalarial activity of 3,3-spiroanellated 5,6-disubstituted 1,2,4-trioxanes. ACS Med Chem Lett 2013; 4:165-9. [PMID: 24900640 DOI: 10.1021/ml300188t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2012] [Accepted: 12/11/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Novel 3,3-spiroanellated 5-aryl, 6-arylvinyl-substituted 1,2,4-trioxanes 19-34 have been synthesized and appraised for their antimalarial activity against multidrug-resistant Plasmodium yoelii nigeriensis in Swiss mice by oral route at doses ranging from 96 mg/kg × 4 days to 24 mg/kg × 4 days. The most active compound of the series (compound 25) provided 100% protection at 24 mg/kg × 4 days, and other 1,2,4-trioxanes 22, 26, 27, and 30 also showed promising activity. In this model, β-arteether provided 100 and 20% protection at 48 mg/kg × 4 days and 24 mg/kg × 4 days, respectively, by oral route. Compound 25 displayed a similar in vitro pharmacokinetic profile to that of reference drug β-arteether. The activity results demonstrated the importance of an aryl moiety at the C-5 position on the 1,2,4-trioxane pharmacophore.
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- Ranjani Maurya
- Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, ‡Division of Parasitology, §Division of Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism, and ∥Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, ‡Division of Parasitology, §Division of Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism, and ∥Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, ‡Division of Parasitology, §Division of Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism, and ∥Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, ‡Division of Parasitology, §Division of Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism, and ∥Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, ‡Division of Parasitology, §Division of Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism, and ∥Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, ‡Division of Parasitology, §Division of Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism, and ∥Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, ‡Division of Parasitology, §Division of Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism, and ∥Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, ‡Division of Parasitology, §Division of Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism, and ∥Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, ‡Division of Parasitology, §Division of Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism, and ∥Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, ‡Division of Parasitology, §Division of Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism, and ∥Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, ‡Division of Parasitology, §Division of Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism, and ∥Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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Wu Y, Li Y, Wittlin S. Access to Some UV Chromophore-Containing Antimalarial Trioxanes Using Hydrogen Peroxide as Source of the Peroxy Bonds. HETEROCYCLES 2012. [DOI: 10.3987/com-11-s(p)11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Singh C, Hassam M, Naikade NK, Verma VP, Singh AS, Puri SK. Synthesis and Antimalarial Assessment of a New Series of Orally Active Amino-Functionalized Spiro 1,2,4-Trioxanes. J Med Chem 2010; 53:7587-98. [DOI: 10.1021/jm100678p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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6-(4′-Aryloxy-phenyl)vinyl-1,2,4-trioxanes: A new series of orally active peroxides effective against multidrug-resistant Plasmodium yoelii in Swiss mice. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2010; 20:4459-63. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.06.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2010] [Revised: 05/26/2010] [Accepted: 06/08/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Gupta AK, Chakroborty S, Srivastava K, Puri SK, Saxena AK. Pharmacophore Modeling of Substituted 1,2,4-Trioxanes for Quantitative Prediction of their Antimalarial Activity. J Chem Inf Model 2010; 50:1510-20. [DOI: 10.1021/ci100180e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Amit K. Gupta
- Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division and Parasitology Division, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Lucknow, 226001, India
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- Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division and Parasitology Division, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Lucknow, 226001, India
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- Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division and Parasitology Division, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Lucknow, 226001, India
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- Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division and Parasitology Division, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Lucknow, 226001, India
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- Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division and Parasitology Division, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Lucknow, 226001, India
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Singh C, Verma VP, Naikade NK, Singh AS, Hassam M, Puri SK. Novel Bis- and Tris-1,2,4-trioxanes: Synthesis and Antimalarial Activity against Multidrug-Resistant Plasmodium yoelii in Swiss Mice. J Med Chem 2008; 51:7581-92. [DOI: 10.1021/jm801006v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Chandan Singh
- Division of Medicinal and Process Chemistry and Division of Parasitology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal and Process Chemistry and Division of Parasitology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal and Process Chemistry and Division of Parasitology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal and Process Chemistry and Division of Parasitology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal and Process Chemistry and Division of Parasitology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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- Division of Medicinal and Process Chemistry and Division of Parasitology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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Griesbeck A, Blunk D, El-Idreesy T, Raabe A. Bicyclic Peroxides and Perorthoesters with 1,2,4-Trioxane Structures. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2007; 46:8883-6. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.200701397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Griesbeck A, Blunk D, El-Idreesy T, Raabe A. Bicyclische Peroxide und Perorthoester mit 1,2,4-Trioxanstruktur. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2007. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200701397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Singh C, Sharma U, Saxena G, Puri SK. Orally active antimalarials: Synthesis and bioevaluation of a new series of steroid-based 1,2,4-trioxanes against multi-drug resistant malaria in mice. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2007; 17:4097-101. [PMID: 17548195 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2007.05.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2007] [Revised: 05/09/2007] [Accepted: 05/18/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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A new series of steroid-based 1,2,4-trioxanes 7a-f, 8a-f and 9b-e have been synthesized and evaluated for their antimalarial activity against multi-drug resistant Plasmodium yoelii in Swiss mice by oral route. The biological activity shows a strong dependence on the size and the nature of the steroidal side chain. Pregnane-based trioxanes 8a-f show better activity profile than trioxanes 7a-f and 9b-e, derived from cholesterol and tigogenine, respectively.
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- Chandan Singh
- Division of Medicinal and Process Chemistry, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226001, India.
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Amewu R, Stachulski AV, Ward SA, Berry NG, Bray PG, Davies J, Labat G, Vivas L, O'Neill PM. Design and synthesis of orally active dispiro 1,2,4,5-tetraoxanes; synthetic antimalarials with superior activity to artemisinin. Org Biomol Chem 2006; 4:4431-6. [PMID: 17268634 DOI: 10.1039/b613565j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Unsymmetrical dispiro- and spirotetraoxanes have been designed and synthesized via acid-catalyzed cyclocondensation of bis(hydroperoxides) with ketones. Incorporation of water-soluble and polar functionalities, via reductive amination and amide bond formation, produces several analogues with low nanomolar in vitro antimalarial activity. Several analogues display an unprecedented level of oral antimalarial activity for this class of endoperoxide drug.
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- Richard Amewu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool, UK L69 3BX
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