Aryl and ethoxycarbonyl derivatives of pyrroles, 2H pyrroles and 3,4-dihydropyrroles and their immunoactivity of human T lymphocytes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0223-5234(91)90217-B

Several pyrroles, 2H pyrroles, 3,3-dihydropyrroles substituted in various positions with phenyl and ethoxycarbonyl groups, were prepared in order to study in vitro their immunoactivity on human T lymphocytes. The best action was observed when on the pyrrole cycle, a carboxylic chain in position 2, an aromatic cycle in 5, and a substituent in 3, particularly a phenyl or a carboxylic ester were simultaneously found to exist. A conformational approach, performed by magnetic anisotropy quantification of phenyls, using Johnson and Bovey increments, showed that the orthogonality of the substituent in 3 is important as regards the pyrrolic cycle. Thus, the ethyl 3,5-diphenylpyrrole-2-carboxylate ester 8 appears to be the most interesting as it is more efficient than the levamisole chlorhydrate in the tests connected with the lymphoblastic transformation in presence of PHA (phyto-hemagglutinin) and related to the mobilisation of CD2 receptors.