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Table 1 Examples of substructures and scaffolds of known anti-malarial agents and their frequency of occurrence in the hit list

From: Screening and hit evaluation of a chemical library against blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum

Scaffolds

 

Counts

Comments

A

9

Quinine or mefloquine like

B

9

Diamino-pyrimidines

C

4

Pyrimethamine or cycloguanil like

D

4

Triazolo-pyrimidine

E

3

Purine

F

2

Chloroquine, quinacrine or modiaquine like

G

1

Chloroproguanil or proguanil like