Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (I) or formula (II) which have anti-inflammatory activity and comprise a new class of NSAIDs. The compounds are therefore useful for treating inflammatory diseases or disorders. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, as well as methods of treating inflammatory diseases or disorders using compounds of formula (III) or formula (IV).

Abstract: The present invention provides a simplified set of characteristics that can be used to select 1,2,4 benzotriazine 1,4 dioxide compounds (TPZ analogues) with therapeutic activity against hypoxic cells in human tumour xenografts, and to further provide a novel class of 1,2,4-benzotriazine-1,4-dioxides (TPZ analogues) with predicted in vivo activity against tumours, to their preparation, and to their use as hypoxia-selective cytotoxic drugs and radiosensitizers for cancer therapy, both alone or in combination with radiation and/or other anticancer drugs.

Abstract: The present invention relates to DNA-targeted 1,2,4-benzotriazine-1,4-dioxides and related analogues, to their preparation, and to their use as hypoxia-selective drugs and radiosensitizers for cancer therapy, both alone or in combination with radiation and/or other anticancer drugs.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula wherein: W is NH, S, SO, or SO2; R2 is (un)substituted aryl, (un)substituted heteroaryl, or (un)substituted carbocycle or heterocycle; Q is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R4 and R6 are the same or different and represent hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, (un)substituted aryl, (un)substituted heteroaryl, (un)substituted arylalkyl or (un)substituted heteroarylalkyl; and R8 is hydrogen, lower alkyl or an (un)substituted carbocyclic group containing from 3-7 members, up to two of which members are optionally hetero atoms selected from oxygen and nitrogen; or R8 is (un)substituted aryl, (un)substituted heteroaryl, (un)substituted arylalkyl or (un)substituted heteroarylalkyl. These compounds are useful for treating cell proliferative disorders, such as cancer and restenosis. These compounds are potent inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases (cdks) and growth factor-mediated kinases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel nitrophenyl mustard and nitrophenylaziridine alcohols, to their corresponding phosphates, to their use as targeted cytotoxic agents; as bioreductive drugs in hypoxic tumours, and to their use in cell ablation, including gene-directed enzyme-prodrug therapy (GDEPT) and antibody-directed enzymeprodrug therapy (ADEPT), in conjunction with nitroreductase enzymes.

Abstract: A compound of formula (I): in which A is a C alkylene group with a chain length between NH and N(O)R?R? of at least 2 carbon atoms and R? and R? are each separately selected from C1-4 alkyl groups and C2-4 hydroxyalkyl and C2-4 dihydroxyalkyl groups, or R? and R? together are a C2-6 alkylene group, is formulated so that upon dissolution in aqueous solution the pH of the solution is in the range of 5 to 9. The compound may be in the form of salt with a physiologically acceptable acid having a pKa in the range of ?3.0 (minus 3.0) to 9.0.

Abstract: Nitroaniline-based unsymmetrical mustards of the general formula (I) are provided, together with methods of preparation and methods for their use as prodrugs for gene-dependent enzyme prodrug therapy (GDEPT) and cell ablation therapy in conjunction with nitroreductase enzymes as hypoxia selective cytotoxins and as anticancer agents.

Abstract: A compound of formula (I): in which A is a C alkylene group with a chain length between NH and N(O)R?R? of at least 2 carbon atoms and R? and R? are each separately selected from C1-4 alkyl groups and C2-4 hydroxyalkyl and C2-4 dihydroxyalkyl groups, or R? and R? together are a C2-6 alkylene group, is formulated so that upon dissolution in aqueous solution the pH of the solution is in the range of 5 to 9. The compound may be in the form of salt with a physiologically acceptable acid having a pKa in the range of ?3.0 (minus 3.0) to 9.0.

Abstract: This invention relates to polycyclic carboxamide compounds of the formula (I) with cytotoxicity, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy, particularly I the treatment and/or prophylaxis of cellular proliferative disorders such a cancer.

Abstract: The invention provides processes of preparing 3-substituted 1-(chloromethyl)-1,2-dihydro-3H-[ring fused indol-5-yl(amine-derived)] compounds of formula (I) and its analogues, or a physiologically functional derivative thereof, (I), wherein A and B together may represent a fused optionally substituted benezene, naphthalene, pyridine, furan or a pyrrole ring, where the optional substituents are represented by Y; X is halogen or OSO2R, and W is selected from NO2, NHOH, N(R3)2NHR3, NHCO2R3, N(phthaloyl) or NH2, or W is further selected from the group (a), wherein J is selected from OH or R, and P is a group which is a substrate suitable for a nitroreductase or carboxypeptidase enzyme. The invention is also directed to the use of compounds of formula (I) prepared by the processes of the invention as cytotoxins for cancer therapy and as prodrugs for gene-directed enzyme-prodrug therapy (GDEPT) and antibody-directed enzyme-prodrug therapy (ADEPT).

Abstract: A compound which is a benzo[a]phenazine-11-carboxamide derivative of formula (I) wherein each of R1 to R4, which are the same or different, is selected from hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, C1-C6 alkoxy which is unsubstituted or substituted, heteroaryloxy, C1-C6 alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted, nitro, cyano, azido, amidoxime, CO2R10, CON(R12)2, OCON(R12), SR10, SOR11, SO2R11, SO2N(R12)2, N(R2)2, NR10SO2R11, N(SO2R11)2 NR10(CH2)nCN, NR10COR11, OCOR11 or COR10; each of R5 to R7, which are the same or different, is selected from hydrogen, halogen, hydroxy, C1-C6 alkoxy, C1-C6 alkyl, SR10 and N(R12)2; Q is C1-C6 alkylene which is unsubstituted or substituted by (i) C1-C6 alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted, (II) hydroxy, provided that the hydroxy group is not ? to either of the N atoms adjacent to Q in formula (I), (iii) CO2R10, or (iv) CON(R12); R8 and R9, which are the same or different, are each hydrogen or C1-C6 alkyl, or R8 and R9 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are atta

Abstract: This invention relates to a class of heterocycles and their metal complexes, and is particularly concerned with the use of these compounds in the preparation of prodrugs or as prodrugs that may be activated under hypoxic conditions by enzymes or by therapeutic ionising radiation, in the treatment of cancer. The invention also relates to the use of these heterocycles and the corresponding metal complexes in the preparation of medicaments and to compositions including the heterocycles or their metal complexes and to methods for preparing these compounds.

Abstract: Compounds and methods for inactivating pathogens in materials are described, including compositions and methods for inactivating pathogens in biological materials such as red blood cell preparations and plasma. The compounds and methods may be used to treat materials intended for in vitro or in vivo use, such as clinical testing or transfusion. The compounds are designed to specifically bind to and react with nucleic acid, and then to degrade to form breakdown products. The degradation reaction is preferably slower than the reaction with nucleic acid.

Abstract: An improved process for the preparation of 4,6-disubstituted pyrido[3,4-d]pyrimidines is described where 5-amino-2-fluoropyridine is converted in seven operations to the desired products, as well as other valuable intermediates used in the process.

Abstract: The invention provides compounds of general formula (I), wherein: X is halogen or OSO.sub.2 R, where R represents H or is unsubstituted or hydroxy-or amino-substituted lower alkyl; Y is a nitro or amine group or a substituted derivative thereof; W is selected from the structures of formulae (Ia, Ib or Ic), where E is --N.dbd. or --CH.dbd., G is O, S, or NH, and Q is either up to three of R, OR, NRR, NO.sub.2, CONHR, NHCOR or NHCONHR, or is an additional group of formulae (Ia, Ib or Ic) and HET represents a 5- or 6-membered carbocycle or heterocycle; and A and B collectively represent a fused benzene or 2-CO.sub.2 R pyrrole ring. In one embodiment, the group Y is an amine derivative substituted by a group which is a substrate for a nitroreductase or carboxypeptidase enzyme such that one of said enzymes is able to bring about removal of that group.

Abstract: A method of treating neoplastic disease wherein a patient in need of such treatment is administered an effective amount of a radiation-activated cytotoxin prodrug (RACP) which has low toxicity, which is reducible by reducing agents generated by the radiolysis of water and which, upon reduction, releases a sufficient amount of a cytotoxic effector of sufficient cytotoxic potency to kill tumor cells. The tumor cells are irradiated with ionizing radiation to reduce the prodrug which is present at the locus of the tumor cells to release the cytotoxic effector.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel bis-benzimidazole compounds which have the ability to bind to the minor groove of DNA and to alkylate DNA, to methods of preparing the compounds, and the use of the compounds in the treatement of neoplastic disease.

Abstract: The invention provides nitroaniline derivatives represented by general formula (I) where the nitro group is substituted at any one of the available benzene positions 2-6; where R and A separately represent the groups NO.sub.2, CN, COOR.sup.1, CONR.sup.1 R.sup.2, CSNR.sup.1 R.sup.2 or SO.sub.2 NR.sup.1 R.sup.2 and A is substituted at any one of the available benzene positions 2-6; where B represents N(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 halogen).sub.2 or N(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OSO.sub.2 R.sup.3).sub.2 substituted at any one of the available benzene positions; and where R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 separately represent H, or lower alkyl optionally substituted with hydroxyl, ether, carboxy or amino functions, including cyclic structures, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together with the nitrogen form a heterocyclic structure, and pharmaceutical preparations containing them. These compounds have activity as hypoxia-selective cytotoxins, reductively-activated prodrugs for cytotoxins, hypoxic cell radiosensitisers, and anticancer agents.

Abstract: 2-Thioindoles (2-selenoindoles) and analogous 2-indolinethione (2-indolineselenone) and polysulfide (selenide) compounds, salts thereof, methods of production, intermediates in their production, pharmaceutical compositions containing said compounds, and methods for inhibiting protein kinase dependent disease in a mammal or treating aberrant cell growth in a mammal, using said compositions, are disclosed.

Abstract: New cobalt complexes of nitrogen mustard alkylating agents which have been found to have hypoxia-selective antitumor properties and are thereby useful antitumor agents are described.