Widespread fluoroquinolone resistance has drawn attention to quinazolinediones (diones), fluoroquinolone-like topoisomerase poisons that are unaffected by common quinolone-resistance mutations. To better understand differences between quinolones and diones, we examined their impact on the formation of cleaved complexes (drug-topoisomerase-DNA complexes in which the DNA moiety is broken) with gy...

The α-arylation of cyclic and fluoroalkyl 1,3-diketones is made challenging by the highly stabilized nature corresponding enolates, especially difficult for sterically demanding aryl partners. As a general solution to this problem, we report Bi-mediated oxidative coupling acidic diones ortho-substituted arylboronic acids. Starting from bench-stable bismacycle precursor, sequence B-to-Bi transme...

A series of 5-phenyl-3-ureidobenzodiazepine-2,4-diones was synthesized and evaluated as cholecystokinin-B (CCK-B) receptor antagonists. Structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies revealed the importance of the N-1 substituent for potent and selective CCK-B affinity. Addition of substituents at the urea side chain provided in some cases more potent compounds. Moreover the introduction of bulk...

Highly efficient syntheses of novel fluorine bearing quinoline-4-carboxylic acids and the related compounds had been achieved from cyclocondensation of 2-amino-5-fluorophenyl glyoxylic acid 1 with benzoyle asetanilides 2 in boiling DMF, to give the target 3. Decarboxylation of 3 produced 6-fluoro-2-phenyl-3-(substituted amino)-keto-quinolines 4, while that reaction underwent refluxing, afforded...

Novel derivatives of 5-(substituted)benzylidene-3-(4-substituted)phenylsulfonylimidazolidine-2,4-diones (3a-r), 1-(4-substituted)phenylsulfonyl-3-(4-substituted)phenylpyrimidine-2,4,6-(1H,3H,5H)-triones (6a-l), and 3-(4-substituted)phenyl-1-(4-substituted)phenylsulfonylquinazoline-2,4(1H,3H)- diones (8a-l) have been synthesized and tested for their antitumor activity against 60 tumor cell lines...

An efficient and alternative synthetic approach has been developed to prepare various N-(arylethyl)piperazine-2,6-diones from 4-benzenesulfonyliminodiacetic acid and primary amines using carbonyldiimidazole in the presence of a catalytic amount of DMAP at ambient temperature. Piperazine-2,6-diones are successfully transformed to pharmaceutically useful pyridopyrazines or pyrazinoisoquinolines a...

In this investigation a simple synthetic method for the synthesis of trifluoromethyl-1H-benzo[e][1,2,4]triazolo[1,2-a][1,2,4]triazine-1,3(2H)-diones and (trifluoromethyl)benzo [5,6][1,2,4]triazino[1,2-b]phthalazine-8,13-diones has been developed using urazole or phthalazine and aceteimidoyl chloride derivatives at room temperature under ultrasound irradiations. In the comparison to the conventi...

H etero-Diels-Alder Reaction, a,/?-Unsaturated Ketones, Styrenes Cycloadditions of 3-aryl-2-benzoyl-2-propenenitriles la,b to styrene (2a) and its methylor methoxy-substituted derivatives 2b-d proceed regioand diastereoselectively yielding cis and trans diastereoisomers of 2,4,6-triaryl-3,4-dihydro-2//-pyran-5-carbonitriles 3 and 4 in 59-72% yield. Cycloadducts cis-3 were the major products. Re...