Several new alkylguanidines derived from carbazole have been synthesized in a simple one-pot reaction starting from 3-aminocarbazole derivatives. The aminocarbazoles were reacted with etho
xycarbonylisothiocyanate, to give thiourea intermediates, followed by the addition of an alkylamine and HgCl
2 to give etho
xycarbonylguanidine intermediates. The reaction mi
xture was then heated at 160
xA0;掳C to give the
N-(1,4-dimethyl-9
H-carbazol-3-yl)-
N鈥?alkylguanidines.
The cytotoxic activity of all the synthesized guanidines was evaluated against different cell lines.