Structure-activity relationship investigation of bis(2-chloroethyl)aminoethyl esters of some carboxylic acids.

A study of quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) in a series of carboxylic acid bis(2-chloroethyl)aminoethyl esters with potential antitumor activity was carried out. The statistical-heuristic technique was applied to estimate the contributions of the structural features of the compounds to the probability of their activity in vivo against lymphoid leukemia L1210. The results obtained were compared with those of the pharmacological screening of the esters. Some assumptions are made concerning the difference in antileukemic activity of compounds based on the computed weights of their structural features.