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Phosphoramidate Derivatives of Stavudine as Inhibitors of HIV: Unnatural Amino Acids May Substitute for Alanine

Some novel phosphoramidate derivatives of the nucleoside analogue stavudine have been prepared as membrane-soluble prodrugs of the bioactive free phosphate forms. Phenyl phosphates linked via nitrogen to methyl esterified amino acid analogues were studied, where the amino acid was an unnatural α-alkyl (or aryl) glycine or an α,α- dialkyl glycine. All compounds were characterized by a range of spectroscopic, spectrometric and analytical methods and were subjected to in vitro evaluation of their anti-human immunodeficiency virus efficacy. It is notable that certain unnatural amino acid derivatives could substitute for alanine with only a relatively small loss of activity and, moreover, that this activity did not fall-off with increasing alkyl chain length for the C2-C4 mono-alkyl series. These data are further probed by the application of our recently reported 31P-NMR-based carboxyl esterase assay, with informative results.