Discovery of a dopamine D4 selective PET ligand candidate taking advantage of a click chemistry based REM linker
作者:Rainer Tietze、Stefan Löber、Harald Hübner、Peter Gmeiner、Torsten Kuwert、Olaf Prante
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2007.12.026
日期:2008.2
Employing D4 selective azaindoles as lead compounds, a focused library of the carbocyclic arene bioisosteres 1 was synthesized when we took advantage of the click chemistry derived triazolylmethyl acrylate resin 2. Ligand binding assays on monoaminergic GPCRs led to SARs that indicated further lead structure optimizations when the attachment of alkoxy substituents provided both an improvement of the biological properties and the opportunity to introduce F-18 as a radioisotope. Finally, radiosynthesis resulted in formation of the radioligand [F-18]7h that showed optimal logD(7.4) of 2.8 and was determined to be highly stable in human serum. Thus, [F-18]7h represents a promising dopamine D4 selective radioligand for positron emission tomography (PET). (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.