New antimalarial compounds: the class of 2011

In another step to overcome bacterial resistance to antibiotics, scientists from India have made a new class of triazines. Sixteen compounds showed excellent activity against malaria, say the researchers, preserving the potency of their parent antimalarial drug chloroquine. IC50 values ranged from 1.36 to 4.63ng ml-1.

Synthesis of hybrid 4-anilinoquinoline triazines as potent antimalarial agents, their in silico modeling and bioevaluation as Plasmodium falciparum transketolase and β-hematin inhibitors
Moni Sharma, Kuldeep Chauhan, Shikha S. Chauhan, Ashok Kumar, Shiv Vardan Singh, Jitendra K. Saxena, Pooja Agarwal, Kumkum Srivastava, S. Raja Kumar, Sunil K. Puri, Priyanka Shah, M. I. Siddiqi and Prem M. S. Chauhan
DOI: 10.1039/C1MD00188D

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