Title:Pyrimidine-fused Dinitrogenous Penta-heterocycles as a Privileged Scaffold
for Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery
Volume: 22
Issue: 4
Author(s): Wen Li, Jinyang Zhang, Min Wang, Ru Dong, Xin Zhou, Xin Zheng and Liping Sun*
Affiliation:
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drug Design & Optimization, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, P.R. China
Keywords:
Privileged scaffold, Pyrazolo[1, 5-a]pyrimidines, Pyrazolo[3, 4-b]pyrimidines, Pyrazolo[4, 3-b]pyrimidines, Purines, Imidazo[1, 2-a] pyrimidines, Anti-cancer agents.
Abstract: Pyrimidine-fused derivatives that are the inextricable part of DNA and RNA play a key
role in the normal life cycle of cells. Pyrimidine-fused dinitrogenous penta-heterocycles, including
pyrazolopyrimidines and imidazopyrimidines are a special class of pyrimidine-fused compounds
contributing to an important portion in anti-cancer drug discovery, which has been discovered as the
core structure for promising anti-cancer agents used in the clinic or clinical evaluations. Pyrimidinefused
dinitrogenous penta-heterocycles have become one privileged scaffold for anti-cancer drug
discovery. This review consists of the recent progress of pyrimidine-fused dinitrogenous pentaheterocycles
as anti-cancer agents and their synthetic strategies. In addition, this review also summarizes
some key structure-activity relationships (SARs) of pyrimidine-fused dinitrogenous pentaheterocycle
derivatives as anti-cancer agents.