Structure-guided design of new indoles as negative allosteric modulators (NAMs) of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) containing GluN2B subunit
摘要:
Negative allosteric modulators (NAMs) of GluN2B-containing NMDARs provide pharmacological tools for the treatment of chronic neurodegenerative diseases. Novel NAMs have been designed on the basis of computational studies focused on the 'hit compound' 3. This series of indoles has been tested in competition assay. Compounds 16 and 17 were the most active ligands (IC50 values of 83 nM and 71 nM, respectively) and they showed a potency close to that of reference compounds ifenprodil (1, IC50 = 47 nM) and 3 (IC50 = 25 nM). Furthermore, docking studies have been performed for active ligand 16 and the results were in a good agreement with biological data. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Structure-guided design of new indoles as negative allosteric modulators (NAMs) of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) containing GluN2B subunit
作者:Maria Rosa Buemi、Laura De Luca、Stefania Ferro、Emilio Russo、Giovambattista De Sarro、Rosaria Gitto
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2016.02.021
日期:2016.4
Negative allosteric modulators (NAMs) of GluN2B-containing NMDARs provide pharmacological tools for the treatment of chronic neurodegenerative diseases. Novel NAMs have been designed on the basis of computational studies focused on the 'hit compound' 3. This series of indoles has been tested in competition assay. Compounds 16 and 17 were the most active ligands (IC50 values of 83 nM and 71 nM, respectively) and they showed a potency close to that of reference compounds ifenprodil (1, IC50 = 47 nM) and 3 (IC50 = 25 nM). Furthermore, docking studies have been performed for active ligand 16 and the results were in a good agreement with biological data. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Convenient, Benign and Scalable Synthesis of 2- and 4-Substituted Benzylpiperidines
A short, scalable and environmentally benignsynthesis of 2- and 4-substitutedbenzylpiperidines has been developed. The method is based on the temperature-programmed consecutive deoxygenation and heteroaromatic ring saturation of aryl(pyridin-2-yl)- and aryl(pyridin-4-yl)methanols and aryl(pyridin-4-yl)methanones in the presence of Pd/C catalyst. The crucial roles of the temperature, the acidity and