Cancer Research Campaign Technology Limited

Malcolm Francis Stevens

Edward Stuart Newlands

Tracey Dawn Bradshaw

Kenneth R Wooldridge

Robert Stone

Samantha Wrigley

Dong-Fang Shi

Edward Lunt

There are disclosed herein 2-phenylbenzazole compounds having a 3'-substituent and a 4'-NR.sup.2 R.sup.6 substituent in the phenyl group where R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are each hydrogen or alkyl, or where the $'-NR.sup.5 R.sup.6 substituent is N-acyl (or N-benzoyl). There are also disclosed 2-phenylbenzazole compounds in the form of 4'-N sulphamate salts. Such compounds exhibit significant selective cytotoxic activity in respect of tumor cells and provide potentially useful chemotherapeutic agents for selective treatment of a range of cancers.

2-arylbenzazole compounds

[ 3H]-Imidazo[ 5,1-d] -1,2,3,5-tetrazin-4-one derivatives of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents hydrogen, or an alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group containing up to 6 carbon atoms, each such group being unsubstituted or substituted by from one to three substituents selected from halogen atoms, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkylsulphinyl and alkylsulphonyl groups containing up to 4 carbon atoms, and optionally substituted phenyl groups, or R.sup.1 represents a cycloalkyl group containing from 3 to 8 carbon atoms, and R.sup.2 represents a carbamoyl group optionally N-substituted by one or two groups selected ftom alkyl and alkenyl groups containing up to 4 carbon atoms, and cycloalkyl groups containing 3 to 8 carbon atoms, are new therapeutically useful compounds possessing antineoplastic and immunomodulatory activity.

Tetrazine derivatives

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