Design, syntheses and biological activity of novel ALS inhibitors (IX)

Quantitative structure-activity relationships for herbicidal activity against rape of sulfonylurea and triazolopyrimidine-2-sulfonamide derivatives were examined three-dimensionally using comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA). The CoMFA results show that the slopes in steric and electrostatic fields around the molecule were significant for both series in governing the potency variations in herbicidal activity. Based upon the successful superposition between the two series, the herbicidal activity was analyzable with a single equation for the combined set of compounds, which suggested that the two different series of compounds have a common region of the receptor site. Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 29832050), the Special Key Fund of Natural Science of Tianjin (Grant No. 983801011) and the Doctoral Fund of the Education Ministry of China.