Thiol-ene click chemistry for the synthesis of highly effective glycosyl sulfonamide carbonic anhydrase inhibitors.

Thiol-ene click chemistry has been applied for obtaining sulfonamide carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2.1.1) inhibitors incorporating sugar moieties. Most of these new compounds were moderate CA I inhibitors, effective CA II inhibitors, and low nanomolar/subnanomolar inhibitors of the tumor-associated isoforms CA IX and XII.