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Pyrimidinylpropenamides as antitumor agents. Analogues of the antibiotic sparsomycin
Lin,Dubois
, p. 337 - 341 (2007/10/06)
A series of pyrimidinylpropenamides 9 and their oxidation products 10 was prepared, as analogues of sparsomycin (1), for antitumor evaluation. Syntheses involved condensation of the appropriate amino alcohol 5 with acid 8. The resulting sulfides 9 were then oxidized with NaIO4 or H2O2 to sulfoxides 10. Activity was studied in lymphocytic leukemia P-388 and KB cell culture. With the exception of the n-decyl analogue, all of the deoxygenated compounds 9 were inactive regardless of the sterochemical form. In the sulfoxide series 10, those compounds prepared with an L configuration at the asymmetric carbon were also inactive. The completely racemic sulfoxides, on the other hand, displayed substantial antitumor activity (ILS=37-61% in P-388; ED50=1.2-2.4μg/ml in KB) suggesting that both the presence of a sulfoxide moiety and a D configuration at the chiral carbon atom were structural requirements for a positive antitumor response. There appeared to be a large tolerance for the group substituted at the sulfoxide moiety, however.
