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Two new ellipticine analogues were synthetized as potential non nucleo
side inhibitors of reverse transcriptase and were tested on Moloney le
ukaemia virus reverse transcriptase in vitro. Both derivatives (9a,b)
showed considerable inhibitory effect; ID50 was found to be in the ran
ge of 2.8 to 4.5 x 10(-5) M. \ Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd