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ID: ALA1142895

Journal: Bioorg Med Chem

Title: Discovery of a new insecticide lead by optimizing a target-diverse scaffold: tetrazolinone derivatives.

Authors: Luo YP, Yang GF.

Abstract: In order to discover lead compounds with novel action mechanism, a series of tetrazolinone derivatives bearing structurally diverse substituents, 1-aryl-4-substituted-1,4-di-hydro-5H-tetrazol-5-ones 2, 1-((5-(alkylthio)-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)methyl)-4-(substituted)- phenyl-1H-tetrazol-5(4H)-ones 5, and 1-((5-(alkylthio)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)methyl)-4- (substituted)phenyl-1H-tetrazol-5(4H)-ones 7, were designed and synthesized in good yields by a multiple-step synthetic procedure. The results of greenhouse in vivo test indicated that all the target compounds did not displayed herbicidal activity, however, some of them exhibited excellent in vivo insecticidal activity against Tetranychus cinnabarinus at the concentration of 250 mg L-1. To our knowledge, this is the first report about the insecticidal activity of tetrazolinone derivatives, which indicated that the tetrazolinone scaffold could be identified as a novel insecticidal lead structure. The present work demonstrated that optimizing a target-diverse scaffold is an effective way to discover new lead compounds with new action mechanism or biological activity.

CiteXplore: 17178226

DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2006.12.002