title: Quinolizidine derivatives with antitubercular activity.
abstract: By reacting lupinylmagnesium chloride with suitable aromatic ketones, several lupinyldiarylcarbinols were obtained, whose dehydration gave the corresponding lupinylidenediarylmethanes. By reduction of three of these unsaturated compounds, the corresponding lupinyldiarylmethanes were also obtained. Direct condensation of lupinine with fluorene gave the 9-epi-lupinylfluorene. The quinolizidine derivatives obtained were tested against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37RV. Nine compounds resulted endowed with good antitubercular activity with MIC < 8 micrograms/ml, while the remaining were only moderately active. Most interesting was the lupinylidene derivative 13 with MIC > 0.1 < 0.5 micrograms/ml.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Genova.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vazzana
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Novelli
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sparatore
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sparatore
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fadda
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Manca
mesh_terms: D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000494:pharmacology; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000187:drug effects; D011807:Quinolizines / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000494:pharmacology; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents; D011807:Quinolizines