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  2. The design and synthesis of potent, selective benzodiazepine sulfonamide bombesin receptor subtype 3 (BRS-3) agonists with an increased barrier of atropisomerization

The design and synthesis of potent, selective benzodiazepine sulfonamide bombesin receptor subtype 3 (BRS-3) agonists with an increased barrier of atropisomerization

  • Bioorg Med Chem. 2012 May 1;20(9):2845-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2012.03.029.
Harry R Chobanian 1 Yan Guo Ping Liu Thomas J Lanza Jr Marc Chioda Linda Chang Theresa M Kelly Yanqing Kan Oksana Palyha Xiao-Ming Guan Donald J Marsh Joseph M Metzger Katie Raustad Sheng-Ping Wang Alison M Strack Judith N Gorski Randy Miller Jianmei Pang Kathy Lyons Jasminka Dragovic Jian G Ning Wes A Schafer Christopher J Welch Xiaoyi Gong Ying-Duo Gao Viktor Hornak Marc L Reitman Ravi P Nargund Linus S Lin
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Affiliation

  • 1 Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Merck Research Laboratories, PO Box 2000, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA. harry_chobanian@merck.com
Abstract

Bombesin Receptor subtype 3 (BRS-3) is an orphan G-protein coupled receptor expressed primarily in the hypothalamus which plays a role in the onset of both diabetes and obesity. We report herein our progress made towards identifying a potent, selective Bombesin Receptor subtype-3 (BRS-3) agonist related to the previously described MK-7725(1) Chobanian et al. (2012) that would prevent atropisomerization through the increase of steric bulk at the C-2 position. This would thereby make clinical development of this class of compounds more cost effective by inhibiting racemization which can occur over long periods of time at room/elevated temperature.

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