Organic nitrates release nitric oxide when incubated with thiosalicylic acid. S- Nitrooxyacylated esters and amides of thiosalicylic acid, together with the corresponding salicylates, were synthesized in order to perform a first in vitro evaluation of these new nitrate-thiol-hybrid prodrugs. These prodrugs might release NO in vivo after biotransformation without the use of endogenous reductives. None of these prodrugs ...