TY - JOUR
T1 - Discovery of novel conformationally constrained tropane-based biaryl and arylacetylene ligands as potent and selective norepinephrine transporter inhibitors and potential antidepressants
AU - Zhou, Jia
AU - Kläß, Thomas
AU - Johnson, Kenneth M.
AU - Giberson, Kelly M.
AU - Kozikowski, Alan P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by an STTR grant from NIH/NIMH (1R41MH070083-01) and grants from NIH/NIDA (DA10458, DA11548). The authors also thank Dr. Werner Tueckmantel and Mr. Hans F. Roth of Acenta Discovery, Inc. for helpful discussions.
PY - 2005/5/16
Y1 - 2005/5/16
N2 - To further explore the structure-activity relationships of conformationally constrained tropanes, a number of new biaryl and arylacetylene analogs were designed and synthesized. Some of these compounds such as 3a-b, 3d, 3f-h, 5b, and 7g were found to be highly potent and selective or mixed norepinephrine transporter (NET) inhibitors with Ki values of 0.8-9.4 nM. Moreover, all of these compounds display weak to extremely weak muscarinic receptor binding affinity, indicating that as potential antidepressants, they may overcome certain side effects that are of concern with other antidepressants, which are thought to be mediated by their anticholinergic properties.
AB - To further explore the structure-activity relationships of conformationally constrained tropanes, a number of new biaryl and arylacetylene analogs were designed and synthesized. Some of these compounds such as 3a-b, 3d, 3f-h, 5b, and 7g were found to be highly potent and selective or mixed norepinephrine transporter (NET) inhibitors with Ki values of 0.8-9.4 nM. Moreover, all of these compounds display weak to extremely weak muscarinic receptor binding affinity, indicating that as potential antidepressants, they may overcome certain side effects that are of concern with other antidepressants, which are thought to be mediated by their anticholinergic properties.
KW - Antidepressants
KW - Biaryl and arylacetylene ligands
KW - Conformationally constrained tropanes
KW - Muscarinic receptor affinity
KW - NET inhibitors
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bmcl.2005.03.083
DO - 10.1016/j.bmcl.2005.03.083
M3 - Article
C2 - 15863297
AN - SCOPUS:18144365841
SN - 0960-894X
VL - 15
SP - 2461
EP - 2465
JO - Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
JF - Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
IS - 10
ER -