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Published on: August 16, 2018
De novo design of a picomolar nonbasic 5-HT(1B) receptor antagonist
David A Nugiel1, Jennifer R Krumrine, Daniel C Hill
1Department of CNS Chemistry, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals,1800 Concord Pike, Wilmington, Delaware 19850, USA.
Abstract:
We describe herein the discovery of novel, de novo designed, 5-HT(1B) receptor antagonists that lack a basic moiety and that provide improved hERG and in vitro phospholipidosis profiles. We used a known 5-HT(1B) antagonist template as our starting point and focused on replacing the piperazine moiety. Pyrazole-based ideas were designed and synthesized among a small library of piperazine replacements. To our knowledge, these are the first potent, nonbasic, functionally active antagonists of the 5-HT(1B) receptor.
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