Synthesis of Indenoisoquinolines.

摘要

Indenoisoquinolines and dihydroindenoisoquinolines are described. In particular, such compounds possessing one or more electron withdrawing substituents are described. The in vitro anticancer activities of these molecules tested in the National Cancer Institute's screen of 55 cell lines is described. The compounds tested for topoisomerase I (top1) inhibition is described.