Synthesis and Tuberculostatic Activity of Some 1,1-Bis-methylthio-2-nitro-ethene Derivatives

1,1-bis-methylthio-2-nitro-ethene was used as a substrate to the syntheses of new heterocyclic compounds. In the reactions, with 1-phenylpiperazine—the corresponding diaminonitroethane 1 , 1,3-diaminonitropropane, and 1,3-diaminonitropropanol—the nitromethylenotetrahydropyrimidine derivatives 2 and 3 were prepared, whereas, with o-phenylenediamine—2-nitromethyleno-benzimidazole 4 were obtained. In the condensation reactions of compounds 2 , 3 , and 4 with benzoyl isothiocyanate, the products 5 , 6 , and 7 were obtained, and afterwards two of them, 5 and 6 , were transformed into the isothiazolines 8 and 9 . 1,1-bis-(4-phenylpiperazino)-2-nitroethane ( 1 ) was exposed to the action of phenyl isothiocyanate and the derivative obtained ( 10 ) was transformed, in the reaction with phenacylbromide, in to benzoylonitrothiophene 11 . The diazo compounds 12 , 13 , and 14 were obtained in the reactions of nitromethylenotetrahydropyrimidines 2 and 3 and of 2-nitromethylenobenzimidazole 4 with benzenediazonium chloride. The derivatives obtained were tested in vitro for their tuberculostatic activity. The compounds 7 (MIC 8–32 μg/mL) and 14 (MIC 16–63 μg/mL) appeared to be the most active compounds.