1. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, Ji’nan, Shandong Province 250012, PR China;2. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Abstract:
A series of nitrogen-containing polyhydroxylated aromatics from caffeic acid phenethyl ester were designed and synthesized as HIV-1 integrase inhibitors. Most of these compounds exhibited potent inhibitory activities at micromolar concentrations against HIV-1 integrase in the 3′-end processing and the strand transfer. Their key structure–activity relationship was also discussed.