Nanoscale capsular complexes of (potential) antimalarials

ORGN 428

Simin Liu, sliu1@uno.edu, Hao Sun, hsun@uno.edu, and Bruce C. Gibb, bgibb@uno.edu. Department of Chemistry, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148
Recently, trioxanes 1 (R = various) have attracted considerable attention as a new class of synthetic anti-malarials. Unfortunately, the range of drug candidates is limited by the need to minimize inactivation of the pharmacophoric trioxane moiety and surround it with bulky substituents, and the need to incorporate water-solubilizing groups to compensate for the bulky substituents. “Transferring” the protection and solubilization of the trioxane moiety to a supramolecular nano-capsule is one way to expand the list of potential drug candidates. Towards this, we will report on how complexation within capsular dimers of 2 influences the stabilization of these molecules.