- Spiro hydantoin aldose reductase inhibitors
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Sorbitol formation from glucose, catalyzed by the enzyme aldose reductase, is believed to play a role in the development of certain chronic complications of diabetes mellitus. Spiro hydantoin derived from five- and six-membered ketones fused to an aromatic ring or ring system inhibit aldose reductase isolated from calf lens. In vivo these compounds are potent inhibitors of sorbitol formation in sciatic nerves of streptozotocinized rats. Optimum in vivo activity is reached in spiro hydantoins derived from 6-halogenated 2,3-dihydro-4H-1-benzopyran-4-ones (4-chromanones). In 2,4-dihydro-6-fluorospirol[4H-1-benzopyran-4,4'-imidazolidine]-2',5'- ione, the activity resides exclusively in the 4S isomer, compound 115 (CP-45,634, USAN: sorbinil). This compound is currently being used to test, in humans, the value of aldose reductase inhibitors in the therapy of diabetic complications.
- Sarges,Schnur,Belletire,Peterson
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p. 230 - 243
(2007/10/02)
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- Quantitative Structure-Activity Analysis in Dihydropteroate Synthase Inhibition by Sulfones. Comparison with Sulfanilamides
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A set of 25 4'-, eight 2',4'-, and five 2',4',6'-substituted 4-aminodiphenyl sulfones were tested for their inhibitory activity on dihydropteroate synthase of Escherichia coli.Linear regression analysis shows that enzymic inhibition indices correlate well with both quantum chemical and spectroscopic descriptors of the electronic structure of the common moiety 4-NH2-C6H4-SO2 of the sulfones (the above descriptors being expressed in relation to the electronic structure of the enzyme substrate, p-aminobenzoate).Therefore, the biological activity of the sulfones can be related to the electronic structural resemblance between these inhibitors and the substrate of the target enzyme.Since a similar result was previously obtained for a wide series of sulfanilamides in their different (amidic, imidic, and anionic) forms, it appears possible to consider the antibacterial sulfones and sulfanilamides as a congeneric chemical series.On the basis of the present results, the classical theory of antimetabolites would appear to take on a quantitative and sound rationale.
- Benedetti, Pier G. De,Iarossi, Dario,Menziani, Cristina,Caiolfa, Valeria,Frassineti, Chiara,Cennamo, Carlo
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p. 459 - 464
(2007/10/02)
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- HIGH-TEMPERATURE ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. XXVII. REACTIONS OF ALKANETHIONES WITH THE CHLORINE DERIVATIVES OF BENZENE, THIOPHENE, AND NAPHTHALENE
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Alkanethiols react effectively with chlorobenzene, its derivatives, 1-chloronaphthalene, and 2-chlorothiophene at 600-660 deg C with the preferential formation of the corresponding aromatic or heteroatomic thiols.Ethanethiol is most reactive.When it is used instead of hydrogen sulfide in reactions with chlorobenzene or its 4-substituted derivatives, the yield of the aromatic thiols, from which the phenylthiyl radicals are generated with greater difficulty, increases more sharply than the yield of the thiophenols, which generate the more stable 4-XC6H4S radicals.The side products of the reactions are the corresponding diaryl sulfides, thiophene, benzothiophene, and toluene.
- Voronkov, M. G.,Deryagina, E. N.,Sukhomazova, E. N.
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p. 755 - 760
(2007/10/02)
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- Antidiabetic pyrrolecarboxylic acids
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Certain pyrrolecarboxylic and pyrroleacetic acid derivatives substituted on the pyrrole ring with thioether groups, acyl groups, phenyl, substituted phenyl, phenoxy, substituted phenoxy, benzyl or halo and optionally substituted on the pyrrole nitrogen with alkyl, and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are useful in lowering the blood glucose levels of hyperglycemic animals.
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