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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 138, Issue -, Pages 38-50Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.06.008
Keywords
Bioisosterism; Aromaticity; Thiophene; Thiazole; Guanidinium; alpha(2)-Adrenoceptors; Antagonists; Affinity constants
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- Irish Research Council
- Spanish MINECO [SAF2013-48586-R]
- Basque Government [IT616/13]
- Basque Government
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Searching for improved antagonists of (alpha(2)-adrenoceptors, a thorough theoretical study comparing the aromaticity of phenyl-, pyridinyl-, thiophenyl- and thiazolylguanidinium derivatives has been carried out [at M06-2X/6-311++G(p,d) computational level] confirming that thiophene and thiazole will be good 'ring equivalents' to benzene in these guanidinium systems. Based on these results, a small but chemically diverse library of guanidine derivatives (15 thiophenes and 2 thiazoles) were synthesised to explore the effect that the bioisosteric change has on affinity and activity at aradrenoceptors in comparison with our previously studied phenyl derivatives. All compounds were tested for their alpha(2)-adrenoceptor affinity and unsubstituted guanidinothiophenes displayed the strongest affinities in the same range as the phenyl analogues. In the case of cycloakyl systems, thiophenes with 6-membered rings showed the largest affinities, while for the thiazoles the 5-membered analogue presented the strongest affinity. From all the compounds tested for noradrenergic activity, only one compound exhibited agonistic activity, while two compounds showed very promising antagonism of aradrenoceptors. (C) 2017 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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