COMPOUNDS HAVING ANTIPARASITIC OR ANTI-INFECTIOUS ACTIVITY

• Main Authors: MANETSCH, ROMAN, KELLY, JANE, X, WINTER, ROLF, W, HINRICHS, DAVID, J, CROSS, RICHARD M, KYLE, DENNIS, RISCOE, MICHAEL,K, NILSEN, AARON, FLANIGAN, DAVID L, SMILKSTEIN, MARTIN, J, MONASTYRSKYI, ANDRII, BURROWS, JEREMY
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 24.10.2012
• Subjects: CHEMISTRY; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS

A method for inhibiting a parasitic or infectious disease in a subject, wherein the parasitic or infectious disease is selected from one caused by Eimeria sp., Babesia sp., Theileria sp. or Neospora caninum, the method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula I: or formula II: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of formula I or formula II, wherein: R1 is H, hydroxyl, alkoxy, acyl, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, or heteroaryl; R2 is methyl, haloalkyl, or heteroaryl; R4 is hydroxyl, carbonyloxy, or carbonyldioxy; R3 is aliphatic, aryl, aralkyl, or alkylaryl; and R5, R6, R7 and R8 are each individually H, halogen, alkoxy, alkyl, haloalkyl, aryl, nitro, cyano, amino, amido, acyl, carboxyl, substituted carboxyl, or -SO2R10, wherein R10 is H, alkyl, amino or haloalkyl; provided that in formula I, R5 and R7 are not H or R6 is not H or methoxy; and in formula II that if R4 is carbonyldioxy then R7 is not methoxy.