A chiral benzoquinolizine-2-carboxylic acid arginine salt active against vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

  • Noel J. De Souza
  • , Shrikant V. Gupte
  • , Prasad K. Deshpande
  • , Vijaya N. Desai
  • , Satish B. Bhawsar
  • , Ravindra D. Yeole
  • , Milind C. Shukla
  • , Jacob Strahilevitz
  • , David C. Hooper
  • , Bülent Bozdogan
  • , Peter C. Appelbaum
  • , Michael R. Jacobs
  • , Nitin Shetty
  • , Mahesh V. Patel*
  • , Rasendrakumar Jha
  • , Habil F. Khorakiwala
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

There is an urgent medical need for novel antibacterial agents to treat hospital infections, specially those caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-positive pathogens. The need may also be fulfilled by either exploring antibacterial agents having new mechanism of action or expanding known classes of antibacterial drugs. The paper describes a new chemical entity, compound 21, derived from hitherto little known "floxacin". The choice of the entity was made from a series of synthesized prodrugs and salts of the active chiral benzoquinolizine carboxylic acid, S-(-)-nadifloxacin. The chemistry, physicochemical characteristics, and essential bioprofile of 21 qualifies it for serious consideration as a novel drug entity against hospital infections of multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and its progress up to clinical phase I trials in humans is described.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5232-5242
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Medicinal Chemistry
Volume48
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Aug 2005
Externally publishedYes

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