Optimisation of pharmacokinetic properties in a neutral series of 11β-HSD1 inhibitors
作者:James S. Scott、Adrian L. Gill、Linda Godfrey、Sam D. Groombridge、Amanda Rees、John Revill、Paul Schofield、Pernilla Sörme、Andrew Stocker、John G. Swales、Paul R.O. Whittamore
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2012.08.070
日期:2012.11
11 beta-HSD1 is increasingly seen as an attractive target for the treatment of type II diabetes and other elements of the metabolic syndrome. In this program of work we describe how a series of neutral 2-thioalkyl-pyridine 11 beta-HSD1 inhibitors were optimized in terms of their pharmacokinetic properties to give compounds with excellent bioavailability in both rat and dog through a core change to pyrimidine. A potential reactive metabolite issue with 4-thioalkyl-pyrimidines was circumvented by a switch from sulfur to carbon substitution. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.