The invention provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with the activity of the Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor (PPAR) families, particularly the activity of PPAR.
We report the identification of a novel series of trisubstituted isoxazoles as PPAR activators from a high-throughput screen. A series of structural optimizations led to improved efficacy and excellent functional receptor selectivity for PPAR delta. The isoxazoles represent a series of agonists which display a scaffold that lies outside the typical PPAR agonist motif. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.