Heterocyclic compounds having a relatively flexible backbone are used to create combinatorial libraries that permit screening for lead compounds and selection of drug candidates for a variety of uses in human and veterinary medicine as well as in agriculture. The compounds of the library generally differ in ring size and chirality of substituents on the ring. Also disclosed are methods for providing and screening these libraries, preferably in an automated or computerizable manner, such as by using a computer program to virtually screen the compounds in order to identify those that are predicted to have bioactive conformations that should give rise to desirable biological effects.
具有相对灵活骨架的
杂环化合物可用于创建组合化合物库,从而筛选先导化合物和候选药物,用于人类和兽医以及农业的多种用途。化合物库中的化合物一般在环的大小和环上取代基的手性上有所不同。此外,还公开了提供和筛选这些化合物库的方法,最好是以自动化或可计算机化的方式,如使用计算机程序对化合物进行虚拟筛选,以确定那些预测具有
生物活性构象的化合物,从而产生理想的
生物效应。