5,6-Diaryl-2,3-dihydroimidazo[2,1-b]thiazoles: a new class of immunoregulatory antiinflammatory agents
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Abstract
A series of substituted 5,6-diaryl-2,3-dihydroimidazo[2,1-b]thiazoles were synthesized and evaluated in the rat adjuvant-induced arthritis and mouse oxazolone-induced contact sensitivity assays to determine the potential of these compounds for use as immunoregulatory antiinflammatory agents. This class of compounds was derived by combining salient structural features of the antiinflammatory agent flumizole and the immunoregulatory drug levamisole. Unlike the latter two, a number of compounds in the target series were found to possess the desired combination of activities. Exploration of structure-activity relationships in the adjuvant-induced arthritic rat assay revealed that optimal potency was exhibited by symmetrically substituted 5,6-diaryl compounds having one of the following alkyl heteroatom or halogen functions at the para position: methoxy, ethoxy, methylthio, N-ethyl-N-methylamino, fluoro, or chloro. Scrambling of these two substituent classes to yield the asymmetrically substituted 5,6-diaryl compounds resulted in potent activity only with the 5-alkyl heteroatom, 6-halo-substituted regioisomers. However in the oxazolone-induced contact sensitivity assay, no consistent relationship of variation in activity with structural change was apparent. The initial target compound 5,6-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-2,3-dihydroimidazo[2,1-b]thiazole (1) was compared with its progenitors in additional models of inflammation and immunoregulation.
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