Sulfathiazole

Nitraminothiazoles are sufficiently acidic to be alkylated by diazomethane the methyl substituent is introduced on the exocyclic nitrogen (194). When sulfathiazole is methylated with diazomethane in ether, a mixture of ring-methylated and amino-methylated products is obtained, the ratio being 30 70 (85). With anion 31 (R = p-NO CsH4SO -) the ratio becomes 15 85 (195). 

The reactivity of sulfathiazoles has been reviewed (65). Methylation in alkaline solution with dimethyl sulfate gives only the ring methylated derivative (85). Mixtures of products are obtained with diazomethane as alkylating agent (see p. 37). Other alkyl halides in aqueous alkali lead also to ring-alkylated products (85. 251, 650. 669-671). 

Action of magnesium sulfate on the sodium salt of sulfathiazole gives its magnesium salt (681). 

However, the sulfathiazoles have now been superseded by penicillin derivatives. 

Sulfathiazole is advised as an hair lotion additive defatting the hair and reducing formation of dandruff (1024). The polymeric 2-aminothiazoles derivatives (427) exhibit good thermal stability with decomposition in air starting at 350°C (1025). 

The investigations of Jensen and Schmith (45) indicate that in vitro activity of 2-sulfanilamido and 4-methyl-2-sulfanilamido selenazoles against pneumonia infections is comparable to that of sulfathiazole or sulfadiazine. Frisk (47) found that the activity of the selenium compounds was much lower than that of sulfathiazole. 

Sulfonamides prepared from 2-aminoselenazoles by normal methods sometimes possess activity comparable to that of sulfathiazole (45, 47). 

Aminothiazole itself (104a), R, = R2 = H (an intermediate in the preparation of sulfathiazole), was synthetized as early as 1888 from a,p-dihalogenoethylethers, which give chloroacetaldehyde in addic medium (8). Many other derivatives have now been used for this synthesis, and they are listed in Table IT12. All give excellent yields. 

Sulfates, organic Sulfate tetrahydrate Sulfathiazole Sulfathiazole [72-14-0]... 

Chemically synthesized antimicrobials used in animal and poultry feeds include arsenicals, eg, arsanilic acid [98-50-0] sodium arsanilate [127-85-5] and roxarsone [121-19-7]-, sulfa dmgs, eg, sulfadimethoxine [122-11-2], sulfamethazine [57-68-1], and sulfathiazole [72-14-0]-, carbadox [6804-07-5]-, and nitrofurans, eg, furazoHdone [67 5-8] and nitrofurazone [59-87-0] (see Antibacterial agents, synthetic Antiparasitic agents). 

A variation of this procedure is used for sulfisomidine because of the different character of the amino group in the 4-position of a pyrimidine ring. Two moles of the sulfonyl chloride are condensed with one mole of 4-amino-2,6-dimethy1pyrimidine in the presence of triethylamine. The resulting bis(acetylsulfanilyl) derivative is readily hydrolyzed to the product. The formation of the bis(acetylsulfanilyl) derivative has also been employed for other heterocycHc amines, eg, for synthesis of sulfathiazole and sulfamoxole (44), but the 1 1 reaction is probably preferable. 

A/ -HeterocycHc derivatives can be formed in some cases by a ring closure to give the heterocycle. Sulfadiazine, sulfamethazine, sulfamerazine, and sulfathiazole have been prepared in this fashion, but also by the usual procedure from the sulfonyl chloride and heterocycHc amine. The synthesis of sulfamethazine from sulfaguanidine is an example of the ring closure method. 

The large importance of the sulfonamides for chemotherapeutics, and specially the high activity of sulfathiazole toward bacterial infections, indicated that sulfonamido derivatives of selenazole should also be investigated. Backer and de Jonge used for this purpose 2-amino-... 

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