Development of acridine derivatives as selective Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA gyrase inhibitors

Abstract

In this study we have designed p-phenylene diamine linked acridine derivative from our earlier reported quinoline–aminopiperidine hybrid MTB DNA gyrase inhibitors with aiming more potency and less cardiotoxicity. We synthesized thirty six compounds using four step synthesis from 2-chloro benzoic acid. Among them compound 4-chloro-N-(4-((2-methylacridin-9-yl)amino)phenyl)benzenesulphonamide (6) was found to be more potent with MTB DNA gyrase super coiling IC50 of 5.21±0.51μM; MTB MIC of 6.59μM and no zHERG cardiotoxicity at 30μM and 11.78% inhibition at 50μM against mouse macrophage cell line RAW 264.7.