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SUBMITTER: Schweda SI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7397174 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schweda Sandra I SI Alder Arne A Gilberger Tim T Kunick Conrad C
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20200713 14
Malaria causes hundreds of thousands of deaths every year, making it one of the most dangerous infectious diseases worldwide. Because the pathogens have developed resistance against most of the established anti-malarial drugs, new antiplasmodial agents are urgently needed. In analogy to similar antiplasmodial ketones, 4-arylthieno[2,3-<i>b</i>]pyridine-2-carboxamides were synthesized by Thorpe-Ziegler reactions. In contrast to the related ketones, these carboxamides are only weak inhibitors of t ...[more]