AGENTS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR AND INFLAMMATORY DISEASES STRUCTURALLY BASED ON 4(1 H)-QUINOLONE
申请人:UCL Business PLC
公开号:US20170066722A1
公开(公告)日:2017-03-09
The present invention provides a compound of formula I, a tautomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or N-oxide thereof for use in the treatment or prevention of cardiovascular disease or of an inflammatory disease or condition:
wherein:
V is N or CR
3
;
X is N or CR
4
;
Y is N or CR
5
;
Z is N or CR
6
;
B is —(C═O)R
1
, a 5- to 10-membered heteroaryl group, or a group
-L′″-NRR′, wherein R and R′ are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a C
1
-C
6
alkyl group or a C
1
-C
6
haloalkyl group;
R
1
is a 5- to 10-membered heterocyclyl group, or —OR′, wherein R′ is a hydrogen atom, a C
1
-C
6
alkyl group or a C
1
-C
6
haloalkyl group, or R
1
is a proteinogenic α amino acid, which is linked to the carbonyl moiety in the compound of formula (I) via the α amino group, which amino acid is optionally esterified at the α carboxylic acid group with a C
1
-C
6
alkyl group or a C
6
-C
10
aryl group, or R
1
is —NR″R′″, —NR
IV
-L′″-CONR″R′″, or —NR
IV
-L′″-COOR, wherein R, R″, R′″ and R
IV
are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, a C
1
-C
6
alkyl group or a C
1
-C
6
haloalkyl group;
either (a) W is N and R
9
and R
2
together form a bond, or (b) W is CR
8
, R
8
and R
9
together form a bond and R
2
is a hydrogen atom, or a C
1
-C
6
alkyl, C
1
-C
6
haloalkyl, C
6
-C
10
aryl, 5- to 10-membered heteroaryl, 5- to 10-membered heterocyclyl, -L′-A
2
, C
3
-C
10
cycloalkyl, or —COOR′ group, wherein R′ is a hydrogen atom or C
1
-C
6
alkyl group, or, when Z is a moiety CR
6
, R
2
may form, together with R
6
and the carbon and nitrogen atoms which connect R
2
and R
6
in the formula (I), a 5- to 6-membered heterocyclic ring;
R
3
is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a hydroxy, C
1
-C
6
alkyl, C
1
-C
6
alkoxy, C
1
-C
6
haloalkyl, C
1
-C
6
haloalkoxy, nitro, or —NR′R″ group, wherein R′ and R″ are the same or different and each represent a hydrogen atom or C
1
-C
6
alkyl group;
R
4
and R
5
are the same or different and each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a hydroxyl, C
1
-C
8
alkyl, C
1
-C
8
haloalkyl, C
1
-C
6
alkoxy, C
1
-C
6
haloalkoxy, nitro, —NR′R″, —CO
2
R′″, C
6
-C
10
aryl, 5- to 10-membered heteroaryl, 5 to 10-membered heterocyclyl, or —CO—(C
1
-C
6
alkyl) group, wherein R′, R″ and R′″ are the same or different and each represent a hydrogen atom or C
1
-C
6
alkyl group, or R
4
and R
5
and the carbon atoms bonded to R
4
and R
5
together form a 5- to 6-membered heterocyclic ring;
R
6
is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a C
1
-C
6
alkyl, C
1
-C
6
haloalkyl, C
1
-C
6
alkoxy, C
1
-C
6
haloalkoxy or —CO
2
R′ group, wherein R′ is hydrogen or C
1
-C
6
alkyl, or, when W is a moiety CR
8
, R
6
may form, together with R
2
and the carbon and nitrogen atoms which connect R
6
and R
2
in the formula (I), a 5- to 6-membered heterocyclic ring;
R
7
is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a C
1
-C
6
alkyl, or C
1
-C
6
haloalkyl group,
A
2
represents a C
6
-C
10
aryl or 5- to 10-membered heteroaryl group;
L′, and L′″ are the same or different and each represent a C
1
-C
6
alkylene, C
2
-C
6
alkenylene, or C
2
-C
6
alkynylene group;
said aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl and heterocyclyl groups being unsubstituted or substituted with one or more substituents selected from halogen, hydroxy, C
1
-C
4
alkyl, C
1
-C
4
hydroxyalkyl, C
1
-C
4
alkoxy, C
1
-C
4
haloalkyl, C
1
-C
4
haloalkoxy, —SOR, —SO
2
R, —NR′R″, —NR′(C═O)R″, —COOR, nitro and cyano substituents, wherein R, R′ and R″ are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom or C
1
-C
4
alkyl group.