1. Fluorinated betulinic acid derivatives and evaluation of their anti-HIV activity.
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Li, Jizhen, Goto, Masuo, Yang, Xiaoming, Morris-Natschke, Susan L., Huang, Li, Chen, Chin-Ho, and Lee, Kuo-Hsiung
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FLUORINATION , *ANTIVIRAL agents , *VIRAL replication , *HIV prevention , *ISOPROPENYL compounds - Abstract
Several fluorinated derivatives of the anti-HIV maturation agent bevirimat ( 1 ) were synthesized and evaluated for anti-HIV replication activity. The modified positions were the C-2, C-3, C-28, and C-30 positions, either directly on the betulinic acid ( 2 ) skeleton or in the attached side chains. Compound 18 , which has a trifluoromethyl group added to C-30 of its isopropenyl group, exhibited similar potency to 1 against HIV-1 NL4-3 . In total, our current studies support our prior conclusion that C-30 allylic modification is unlikely to be a pharmacophore for anti-HIV activity, but could be a meaningful route to manipulate other properties of 2 -related compounds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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