[Synthesis and biological trial of 1-methylene-4-naphthylazo polymer derivates]

With the purpose of preparing latent forms of six naphthylazoderivatives (five of them are schistosomicidal agents), polymers of these chemotherapeutic agents were synthesized in a two-step reaction. First, polymeric 1-methyleneaminonaphthalene (II) was synthesized by condensing 1-naphthylamine with formaldehyde. Subsequently, coupling of II with five sulfonamides (of which four are moieties of schistosomicidal agents) and 5-aminouracil (which is a part of another schistosomidical agent) yielded polymeric 1-methyleneamino-4-naphthylazoderivaties (IIIa-f). In bioligical tests in mice experimentally infected by Schistosoma mansoni, the six new polymers were found inactive.