| Literature DB >> 22778800 |
Gang Chen1, Sung Jin Cho, Xi-Ping Huang, Niels H Jensen, Andreas Svennebring, Maria F Sassano, Bryan L Roth, Alan P Kozikowski.
Abstract
The 5-HT(2C) receptor is an attractive drug target in the quest for new therapeutics to treat a variety of human disorders. We have previously undertaken a structural optimization campaign that has led to some potent and moderately selective 5-HT(2C) receptor agonists. After expanding our structure-function library, we were able to combine our datasets so as to allow the design of compounds of improved selectivity and potency. We disclose herein the structural optimization of our previously reported 5-HT(2B)/5-HT(2C) agonists, which has led to the identification of a highly selective 5-HT(2C) agonist, (+)-trans-[2-(2-cyclopropylmethoxyphenyl)cyclopropyl]methylamine hydrochloride, with an EC(50) of 55 nM and no detectable agonism at the 5-HT(2B) receptor.Entities:
Year: 2011 PMID: 22778800 PMCID: PMC3390974 DOI: 10.1021/ml200206z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: ACS Med Chem Lett ISSN: 1948-5875 Impact factor: 4.345