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Letters in Drug Design & Discovery

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ISSN (Print): 1570-1808
ISSN (Online): 1875-628X

A Facile Synthesis of C2-Substituted Pyrrolo[2,3-f]quinolines with Cytotoxic Activity

Author(s): Andrew Tsotinis, Margarita Vlachou, Spyridon Zouroudis, Andras Jeney, Ferenc Timar, David E. Thurston and Christos Roussakis

Volume 2, Issue 3, 2005

Page: [189 - 192] Pages: 4

DOI: 10.2174/1570180053765075

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Abstract

An expeditious four-step synthesis of the 1H-pyrrolo[2,3-f]quinoline-2-carboxamides (5a-h) is described. Readily available 6-quinolinecarboxaldehyde is converted to the parent acid (6) by nucleophilic attack of the azido-ester (9) and intramolecular cyclization of (10) followed by hydrolysis of the methyl ester (11). The cytotoxicity of the target molecules (5a-h) was evaluated in four tumour cell lines in vitro. One compound (5d) showed sufficient activity (IC50 = 10.2 μM) in the human non-small cell lung cell line NSCLCN16- L16 to be worthy of further study.

Keywords: pyrrolo[f]quinolines, synthesis, cytotoxicity


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