Abstract
Background: The World Health Organization catalogues illnesses such as Chagas disease as neglected diseases, due to the low investment in new drugs to fight them. The search for novel and non-side effects anti-parasitic compounds is one of the urgent needs of the Third World. The use of triazolopyrimidines and their metal complexes have demonstrated hopeful results in this field.
Objective: This work studies the antiparasitic efficacy against Trypanosoma cruzi strains of a series of zinc triazolopyrimidine complexes.
Methods: A series of Zn complexes has been synthesized by the reaction between the triazolopyrimidine derivatives 7-amino-1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine (7atp) and 5,7-dimethyl-1,2,4-triazolo[1,5- a]pyrimidine (dmtp) with Zn(SO4) · 7H2O, ZnCl2, and Zn(NO3)2 · 6H2O salts. The complexes have been analyzed by spectroscopic and thermal assays and X-ray diffraction methods have been used to dilucidate the crystalline structure of one of them. The antiparasitic efficacy was tested in vitro against > Trypanosoma cruzi to compare the trypanocidal effect of different ligands and counteranions to fight Chagas disease.
Results: The efficacy of these compounds against Trypanosoma cruzi has also been tested to compare the influence of different ligands and counteranions on the trypanocidal effect against Chagas disease.
Conclusion: Antiproliferative tests corroborate the synergistic trypanocidal effect of the triazolopyrimidine coordination complexes.
Keywords: Triazolopyrimidine ligands, metal complexes, crystallography, parasitology, Chagas disease, zinc complexes.
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