Lackey K, Besterman J M, Fletcher W, Leitner P, Morton B, Sternbach D D
Glaxo Research Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709.
J Med Chem. 1995 Mar 17;38(6):906-11. doi: 10.1021/jm00006a008.
Substituted 8-ethyl-2-(2-oxo-1,2-dihydroindol-3-ylidene)-8-hydroxy-2,3,5,8- tetrahydro-6-oxa-3a-azacyclopenta[b]naphthalene-1,4,7-triones were synthesized and evaluated as topoisomerase I inhibitors in an in vitro cleavable complex assay. The activity of these compounds may be attributed to their rigid, planar geometry, and an attempt was made to correlate the SAR in this series to known attributes of camptothecin.