Shafiee Abbas, Rastkary Noushin, Jorjani Masoumeh, Shafaghi Bijan
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Arch Pharm (Weinheim). 2002 May;335(2):69-76. doi: 10.1002/1521-4184(200205)335:2<69::AID-ARDP69>3.0.CO;2-6.
New analogues of nifedipine, in which the ortho nitrophenyl group of position 4 is replaced by 1-methyl-4-nitro-5-imidazolyl or 1-methyl-5-imidazolyl with a nitrooxy group at the 3-ester position were synthesized, and the antihypertensive activity of the compounds was examined by the tail-cuff method and compared with TNG and nifedipine. Compounds 11g, 11i-11m, 110, 11r, and 11v showed activity similar to nifedipine and TNG.