Structure and alpha-adrenergic activity of pyrazinimidazolines.

The effects of newly synthetized pyrazinimidazolines on the contraction of isolated rat tail artery and on the chronotropic action of rat atria as well as the effects on blood pressure in anaesthetized rats were determined. The structure-activity relationships were studied, including standard imidazoline drugs. Starting from practically inactive derivatives the step-by-step structural modifications have been made resulting in markedly active chemical congeners, which were designed, synthetized and tested pharmacologically.

A search for new antihypertensive agents. I. Alpha-adrenergic activity and selection of structures among pyrazine substituted imidazolines.

A group of new pyrazinylimidazolines was prepared and their effect on the contraction of isolated rat tail artery as well as their effect on blood pressure in urethane anesthetized normotensive rats were tested. The biological responses were compared to those elicited by standard imidazoline drugs and structure-activity relationships were analysed. The new chemical derivatives were subsequently synthetized and tested pharmacologically. Basing on the experimental results obtained and comparing these to the reported data on arylimidazolines the following suggestions have been put forward concerning the further modifications of alpha-adrenergically active pyrazinylimidazolines: 1) a distance of about 5 A should separate imidazoline nitrogen and pyrazine nucleus, 2) bond refractivity of the separating bridge should be above 5.33, 3) hydrophobicity of substituents in pyrazine ring must be possibly high.

Synthesis of some 2-aminonicotinic acid derivatives.

The nucleophilic exchange of chlorine atom in 2-chloro-3-cyanopyridine with morpholine, piperidine and pyrrolidine was carried out. Acids, amides, thioamides, esters and hydrazides were derived from the obtained compounds (Fig. 1). Some of these compounds showed only moderate tuberculostatic activity.