Structure-Activity Relationships of Fluoro-4-Quinolones

Autor: P. V. Devasthale, L. A. Mitscher, R. M. Zavod
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: The 4-Quinolones: Anti Bacterial Agents in Vitro ISBN: 9781447134510
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-3449-7_9
Popis: The quinolone anti-infective field is now more than twenty years old and several thousand agents have been prepared from which to assemble generalizations connecting structure and activity. This is still a somewhat risky activity as this field all too often throws up an analog which does not fit the classic pattern and yet has excellent activity. Successfully rationalizing such a discovery often teaches us more than the addition of several more typical examples. The establishment of an incorrect orthodoxy by over interpretation of evidence inhibits such liberating discovery and narrows the scope of investigation. Nonetheless, a periodic critical examination of the cumulative experience in the field is essential in planning new work. In this review the primary emphasis will be on the fluoroquinolones of greatest contemporary interest and on the analogs which do not fit comfortably with the rest.
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