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Preparation and antimalarial activities of "trioxaquines", new modular molecules with a trioxane skeleton linked to a 4-aminoquinoline.

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This strategy, which can be characterized as a “covalent bitherapy”, allowed us to obtain modular molecules with high antimalarial activity in vitro either on chloroquine sensitive or onchloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum strains.
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Trioxaquines are new antimalarial drugs which combine two active fragments (an aminoquinoline and a trioxane) with independant modes of action covalently linked within a single molecule. This strategy, which can be characterized as a “covalent bitherapy”, allowed us to obtain modular molecules with high antimalarial activity in vitro either on chloroquine sensitive or on chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum strains.

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