Synthesis and biological evaluation of imidazole derivatives as novel NOP/ORL1 receptor antagonists: Exploration and optimization of alternative pyrazole structure
作者:Yuichi Sugimoto、Kensuke Kobayashi、Masanori Asai、Akio Ohno、Koji Yamada、Satoshi Ozaki、Hisashi Ohta、Osamu Okamoto
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2009.06.095
日期:2009.8
Nonpeptidic small-molecule NOP/ORL1 receptor antagonists with an imidazole scaffold were designed and synthesized to investigate alternatives to the pyrazole analog. Systematic modification of the original pyrazole lead [Kobayashi et al., Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2009, 19, 3627; Kobayashi et al., Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., in press] to change the heterocyclic core, substituted side chain, and pendant functional group demonstrated that examining the structure-activity relationship for novel templates allowed the identification of potent, fully substituted 4-aminomethyl-1H-imidazole and 2-aminomethyl-1H-imidazole. These compounds exhibited excellent potency for ORL1 receptor with minimal P-gp efflux and/or reduced hERG affinity. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.