Revisit to Unfulfilled Premise of Arylsulfonylimidazolidinones as Anticancer Agent

For the development of novel anticancer agent. we have designed. synthesized. and tested novel 4-phenyl-1(N)-arylsulfonylimidazolidinones. As a result. much more potent cytotoxicities of these compounds against the various cancer cell lines than those of doxorubicin were demonstrated. Elaboration on aryl motif on sulfonyl moiety led us to find highly potent 4-phenyl-1-(N-acylindoline-5-sulfonyl)imidazolidinones. Among them, 4-phenyl-l- ［N-(p-aminobenzoyl)indoline-5-sulfonyl］imidazolidinone (PA) was proved to have good pharmacological profile. (omitted)