title: Quinoxaline chemistry. Part 4. 2(R)-anilinoquinoxalines as nonclassical antifolate agents. Synthesis, structure elucidation and evaluation of in vitro anticancer activity.
abstract: Thirty-five quinoxalines bearing a substituted aniline group on position 2 and various substituents on positions 3,6,7 and 8 were prepared in order to evaluate in vitro anticancer activity. Structural elucidation of some isomeric quinoxalinones formed by ring closure of 4-substituted-1,2-diaminobenzenes with dicarbonyl compounds was achieved by comparison with one isomer coming from an unambiguous independent route. Preliminary in vitro screening at NCI showed that many compounds exhibited a moderate to strong growth inhibition activity on various cell lines between 10(-5) and 10(-4) molar concentrations.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Chimica Farmaceutica, Università di Sassari.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Loriga
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fiore
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sanna
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Paglietti
mesh_terms: D000814:Aniline Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D004354:Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor; D005493:Folic Acid Antagonists / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011810:Quinoxalines / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000814:Aniline Compounds; D005493:Folic Acid Antagonists; D011810:Quinoxalines; C023650:aniline