Synthesis, antimalarial activity, and phototoxicity of some benzo[h]quinoline-4-methanols

Isatinas (1H-indol-2,3-diona) são compostos de grande versatilidade sintética, podendo ser utilizados na obtenção de diversos sistemas heterociclos, como derivados indólicos e quinolínicos, o que as tornam importantes matérias-primas na síntese de fármacos. Isatinas também têm sido detectadas em tecidos de mamíferos, o que tem despertado o interesse em seu estudo como moduladores em diversos processos bioquímicos. Os avanços na aplicação de isatinas em síntese orgânica, bem como na compreensão de seus efeitos biológicos e farmacológicos nos últimos vinte e cinco anos encontram-se relatados nesta revisão e seus respectivos materiais suplementares.Isatins (1H-indole-2,3-dione) are synthetically versatile substrates, where they can be used for the synthesis of a large variety of heterocyclic compounds, such as indoles and quinolines, and as raw material for drug synthesis. Isatins have also been found in mammalian tissue and their function as a modulator of biochemical processes has been the subject of several discussions. The advances in the use of isatins for organic synthesis during the last twenty-five years, as well as a survey of its biological and pharmacological properties are reported in this review and in the accompanying supplementary information.

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“…The Martinet procedure is readily applied to napthylamines, thus yielding benzoisatin derivatives 41 .…”

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The chemistry of isatins: a review from 1975 to 1999

Silva¹,

Garden²,

Pinto³

2001

J. Braz. Chem. Soc.

860

447

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“…16,17 The great potential of this important pharmacophore and synthetic building block is ultimately limited by the harsh conditions needed for its preparation. Classical methods for the synthesis of isatin and its derivatives, including the Sandmeyer, [18][19][20] Stollé, [21][22][23] Martinet, 24,25 and the Gassman 26 procedures, typically require harsh reagents, elevated temperatures, and non-ideal solvents. Additionally, most of these methods do not allow for easy control of regiochemistry, limiting the substrate scope of the reaction.…”

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Ylide mediated carbonyl homologations for the preparation of isatin derivatives

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An exceptionally mild method for the preparation of isatin derivatives has been developed using a sulfur ylide mediated carbonyl homologation sequence starting from anthranilic acid precursors. This method proceeds at ambient temperature via a sulfur ylide intermediate without the need for protection of the amine or chromatographic isolation of the intermediate ylide. Gentle oxidation of the sulfur ylides provides isatin derivatives with N-H, N-alkyl, N-aryl substitution, electron-rich and electron-poor aromatic rings, and heterocyclic aromatic systems. We anticipate that this method will greatly expand the accessibility of complex isatin derivatives.

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“…The results of both of these screens suggest the potential for phototoxicity with WR069878. However, it may be possible to engineer out the phototoxicity of WR069878, since it is thought that the phototoxicity of quinoline methanols is due to extensive -conjugation of the quinoline and phenyl ring systems (44). With mefloquine, this was avoided by addition of a trifluoromethyl group at the 2 position.…”

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Utility of Alkylaminoquinolinyl Methanols as New Antimalarial Drugs

Dow

Heady

Bhattacharjee

et al. 2006

Antimicrob Agents Chemother

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Mefloquine has been one of the more valuable antimalarial drugs but has never reached its full clinical potential due to concerns about its neurologic side effects, its greater expense than that of other antimalarials, and the emergence of resistance. The commercial development of mefloquine superseded that of another quinolinyl methanol, WR030090, which was used as an experimental antimalarial drug by the U.S. Army in the 1970s. We evaluated a series of related 2-phenyl-substituted alkylaminoquinolinyl methanols (AAQMs) for their potential as mefloquine replacement drugs based on a series of appropriate in vitro and in vivo efficacy and toxicology screens and the theoretical cost of goods. Generally, the AAQMs were less neurotoxic and exhibited greater antimalarial potency, and they are potentially cheaper than mefloquine, but they showed poorer metabolic stability and pharmacokinetics and the potential for phototoxicity. These differences in physiochemical and biological properties are attributable to the "opening" of the piperidine ring of the 4-position side chain. Modification of the most promising compound, WR069878, by substitution of an appropriate N functionality at the 4 position, optimization of quinoline ring substituents at the 6 and 7 positions, and deconjugation of quinoline and phenyl ring systems is anticipated to yield a valuable new antimalarial drug.In the late 1960s to early 1970s, Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Southeast Asia had begun to develop resistance to all of the available antimalarial drugs (6). Cure rates were 11 to 20% and 26 to 50% for chloroquine and quinine, respectively, and had declined to only 90% for the triple combination of quinine/pyrimethamine/dapsone (6). All of these regimens were associated with adverse side effects (6). As a consequence, the U.S. Army began routinely employing two experimental antimalarial drugs, WR030090 and WR033063, for the treatment of recrudescent malaria infections at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (6). Subsequent field trials demonstrated that WR030090, a quinolinyl methanol, exhibited cure rates of at least 88% and was better tolerated than quinine (6, 21).Shortly thereafter, mefloquine was discovered and was developed commercially by Hoffman La Roche and the U.S. Army. Mefloquine exhibited a long half-life in humans, and this desirable property facilitated its administration as a single dose for malaria treatment and as a once-weekly dosing for prophylaxis (50). In contrast, WR030090 was only partially effective as a prophylactic agent, required a dosing regimen similar to that of quinine to effect cures, and was subsequently abandoned (6,9,21,30). However, it is important to recognize that this occurred because of unfavorable pharmacokinetic characteristics, not as a consequence of unacceptable toxicity.Mefloquine combined with artesunate constitutes one of the most effective combination agents for treatment of malaria (41). Mefloquine is also the only once-weekly drug approved for malaria chemoprophylaxis in the United States that...

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Synthesis, antimalarial activity, and phototoxicity of some benzo[h]quinoline-4-methanols

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The chemistry of isatins: a review from 1975 to 1999

The chemistry of isatins: a review from 1975 to 1999

Ylide mediated carbonyl homologations for the preparation of isatin derivatives

Utility of Alkylaminoquinolinyl Methanols as New Antimalarial Drugs

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