Structure-activity study of phosphoramido acid esters as acetylcholinesterasf inhibitors

Abstract

Phosphoramido acid esters (CH3)2 NP(O)X(p-OC6H4-CH3) (containing P-Cl (1), P-O (2), P-F (3), P-CN (5), and P-N (4,6) bonds, X for 2, 4 and 6 is OCH3, (C2H5)2N and morpholin) have been synthesized to investigate the structure-activity study of AChE enzyme inhibition, through the parameters logP, δ31P and IC50. After their characterization by 31P, 31P{1H}, 13C, 1H NMR, IR and mass spectroscopy, the parameters logP and δ31P (31P chemical shift in NMR) were used to evaluated the lipophilicity and electronical properties. The ability of compounds to inhibit human AChE was predicted by PASS software (version 1.193), and experimentally evaluated by a modified Ellman's assay.