作者:Shuwen He、Peter H. Dobbelaar、Liangqin Guo、Zhixiong Ye、Jian Liu、Tianying Jian、Quang Truong、Shrenik K. Shah、Wu Du、Hongbo Qi、Raman K. Bakshi、Qingmei Hong、James D. Dellureficio、Edward Sherer、Alexander Pasternak、Zhe Feng、Mikhail Reibarkh、Melissa Lin、Koppara Samuel、Vijay B. Reddy、Stan Mitelman、Sharon X. Tong、Gary G. Chicchi、Kwei-Lan Tsao、Dorina Trusca、Margaret Wu、Qing Shao、Maria E. Trujillo、Guillermo Fernandez、Donald Nelson、Patricia Bunting、Janet Kerr、Patrick Fitzgerald、Pierre Morissette、Sylvia Volksdorf、George J. Eiermann、Cai Li、Bei B. Zhang、Andrew D. Howard、Yun-Ping Zhou、Ravi P. Nargund、William K. Hagmann
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2016.02.022
日期:2016.3
MK-4256, a tetrahydro-beta-carboline sstr3 antagonist, was discontinued due to a cardiovascular (CV) adverse effect observed in dogs. Additional investigations revealed that the CV liability (QTc prolongation) was caused by the hERG off-target activity of MK-4256 and was not due to sstr3 antagonism. In this Letter, we describe our extensive SAR effort at the C3 position of the tetrahydro-beta-carboline structure. This effort resulted in identification of 5-fluoro-pyridin-2-yl as the optimal substituent on the imidazole ring to balance sstr3 activity and the hERG off-target liability. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.