Generation and exploration of new classes of antitubercular agents: The optimization of oxazolines, oxazoles, thiazolines, thiazoles to imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines and isomeric 5,6-fused scaffolds
摘要
Tuberculosis (TB) is a devastating disease resulting in a death every 20 s. Thus, new drugs are urgently needed. Herein we report ten classes of compounds鈥攐xazoline, oxazole, thiazoline, thiazole, pyrazole, pyridine, isoxazole, imidazo[1,2-m>am>]pyridine, imidazo[1,2-m>am>]pyrimidine and imidazo[1,2-m>cm>]pyrimidine鈥攚hich have good (micromolar) to excellent (sub-micromolar) antitubercular potency. The 5,6-fused heteroaromatic compounds were the most potent with MIC鈥檚 as low as <0.195 渭M (dFont">9 and dFont">11). Overall, the imidazo[1,2-m>am>]pyridine class was determined to be most promising, with potency similar to isoniazid and PA-824 against replicating m>Mtbm> H37Rv, clinically relevant drug sensitive, multi- and extensively resistant m>Mtbm> strains as well as having good in vitro metabolic stability.