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Activity of antifungal organobismuth(III) compounds derived from alkyl aryl Ketones against S. cerevisiae: Comparison with a heterocyclic bismuth scaffold consisting of a diphenyl sulfone
Murafuji, Toshihiro,Tomura, Mai,Ishiguro, Katsuya,Miyakawa, Isamu
, p. 11077 - 11095 (2014)
A series of hypervalent organobismuth(III) compounds derived from alkyl aryl ketones [XBi(5-R′C6H3-2-COR)(Ar)] was synthesized to investigate the effect of the compounds' structural features on their antifungal activity against the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In contrast to bismuth heterocycles [XBi(5-RC6H3-2-SO 2C6H4-1′-)] derived from diphenyl sulfones, a systematic quantitative structure-activity relationship study was possible. The activity depended on the Ar group and increased for heavier X atoms, whereas lengthening the alkyl chain (R) or introducing a substituent (R′) reduced the activity. IBi(C6H4-2-COCH 3)(4-FC6H4) was the most active. Its activity was superior to that of the related acyclic analogues ClBi[C6H 4-2-CH2N(CH3)2](Ar) and ClBi(C 6H4-2-SO2 tert-Bu)(Ar) and also comparable to that of heterocyclic ClBi(C6H4-2-SO2C 6H4-1′-), which was the most active compound in our previous studies. Density function theory calculations suggested that hypervalent bismuthanes undergo nucleophilic addition with a biomolecule at the bismuth atom to give an intermediate ate complex. For higher antifungal activity, adjusting the lipophilicity-hydrophilicity balance, modeling the three-dimensional molecular structure around the bismuth atom, and stabilizing the ate complex appear to be more important than tuning the Lewis acidity at the bismuth atom.
