Abstract: As part of a systematic SAR study on the 3-iodo-4-phenoxypyridinone 3 (IOPY) type
non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, the analogues 4a-4z bearing different C-3 substituents were synthesized and evaluated for their anti-HIV activity against wild-type HIV-1 and four of the principal HIV mutant strains (
K103N,
Y181C,
Y188L, and
I100L).