title: Chemistry, biological properties and SAR analysis of quinoxalinones.
abstract: Quinoxaline derivatives have received much attention in recent years owing to their both biological properties and pharmaceutical applications. In this review we focus the attention on quinoxalin-2(3)-ones and quinoxalin-2,3-diones. These derivatives are particularly interesting since some of them showed antimicrobial (against several bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc), or anticancer activities. Furthermore, others are reported to be potent no-NMDA glutamate receptor antagonists, endowed with anxiolytic, deconditioning, analgesic, antispastic, antiallergic, antithrombotic activities. In this article we also report SAR studies and the most important methods of synthesis of the quinoxalin-2(3)-(di)ones.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento Farmaco Chimico Tossicologico, Facoltà di Farmacia, Università di Sassari, via Muroni 23/a, 07100 Sassari, Italy. acarta@uniss.it
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carta
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Piras
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Loriga
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Paglietti
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D049109:Cell Proliferation / Q000187:drug effects; D018691:Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D011810:Quinoxalines / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D018691:Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists; D011810:Quinoxalines