A number of novel imidazophenoxazine-4-sulfonamides have been designed as potential inhibitors of PDE4. All these compounds were readily prepared via an elegant multi-step method involving the initial construction of 1-nitro-10H-phenoxazine ring and then fused imidazole ring as key steps. Some of these compounds showed promising PDE4B and D inhibition when tested in vitro and good interactions with these proteins in silico. Three of ...
