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Kevin M McGowan1, Kellie D Nance2, Hykeyung P Cho1, Thomas M Bridges1, P Jeffrey Conn1, Carrie K Jones1, Craig W Lindsley3.
Abstract
This letter describes the continued optimization of M5 NAM ML375 (VU0483253). While a valuable in vivo tool compound, ML375has an excessively long elimination half-life in rat (t1/2=80h), which can be problematic in certain rodent addiction paradigms (e.g., reinstatement). Thus, we required an M5 NAM of comparable potency to ML375, but with a rat t1/2 of less than 4h. Steep SAR plagued this chemotype, and here we detail aniline replacements that offered some improvements over ML375, but failed to advance. Ultimately, incorporation of a single methyl group to the 9b-phenyl ring acted as a metabolic shunt, providing (S)-11 (VU6008667), an equipotent M5 NAM, with high CNS penetration, excellent selectivity versus M1-4 and the desired short half-life (t1/2=2.3h) in rat.Entities:
Keywords: CNS penetration; M(5); Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor; Pharmacokinetics; Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR)
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28237763 PMCID: PMC5508536 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2017.02.020
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bioorg Med Chem Lett ISSN: 0960-894X Impact factor: 2.823