ANTIMICROBIAL AND RADIOPROTECTIVE COMPOUNDS

摘要

Disclosed is a method of treatment and/or prophylaxis of a microbial infection, employing compounds of formula (I), in which X and Y are either the same of different and selected from a hereroatiom; is a double or single bond depending on the heteroatoms X and Y; R1 to R5 are either the same or different and selected from hydrogen or a non-deleterious substituent; and R6 to R7 are either the same or different and selected from hydrogen and a non-deleterious substituent or one of R6 to R7 are absent when there is a double bond present. Also disclosed are methods for protecting a subject from radiation damage, methods of cancer radiotherapy, and use of the disclosed compounds as an antimicrobial or radioprotective agent.