Jr. Tagat et al., SYNTHETIC INHIBITORS OF INTERLEUKIN-6 .2. 3,5-DIARYL PYRIDINES AND META-TERPHENYLS, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 5(18), 1995, pp. 2143-2146
An efficient synthesis of the title compounds using the Ni (II) cataly
sed coupling of various aryl magnesium bromides with di-halo pyridines
and di-halo benzenes is reported. Among the several compounds tested,
1, 2, 12 and 17 showed good inhibitory activity against interleukin-6
.