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  2. Synthesis and in vitro antimycobacterial activity of novel 3-(1H-pyrrol-1-yl)-2-oxazolidinone analogues of PNU-100480

Synthesis and in vitro antimycobacterial activity of novel 3-(1H-pyrrol-1-yl)-2-oxazolidinone analogues of PNU-100480

  • Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2004 Mar 22;14(6):1537-41. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2004.01.010.
Gianluca Sbardella 1 Antonello Mai Marino Artico Roberta Loddo Maria Grazia Setzu Paolo La Colla
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Affiliation

  • 1 Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy.
Abstract

Pursuing our search program for new antitubercular drugs we decided to explore the potentiality of Oxazolidinone moiety by synthesizing novel 3-(1H-pyrrol-1-yl)-2-oxazolidinone analogues of PNU-100480. The new derivatives were tested against atypical mycobacteria as well as against drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis and some of them exhibited a fairly good activity against Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC).

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