abstract |
This invention discloses compounds, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates and prodrugs thereof, useful in therapeutically and/or prophylactically treating patients with an illness. Such illnesses include cancer, and secondary infections caused by Pneumocystis carinii, Toxoplasma gondii, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Mycobacterium avium. The compounds themselves, methods of making these compounds, and methods of using these compounds are all disclosed. The compounds include 5-thiapyrimidines. |