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ACS Med Chem Lett. 2014 May 13;5(7):760-5. doi: 10.1021/ml500053b. eCollection 2014 Jul 10.

Design and synthesis of 4-heteroaryl 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolines as triple reuptake inhibitors.

ACS medicinal chemistry letters

Shuang Liu, Congxiang Zha, Kassoum Nacro, Min Hu, Wenge Cui, Yuh-Lin Yang, Ulhas Bhatt, Aruna Sambandam, Matthew Isherwood, Larry Yet, Michael T Herr, Sarah Ebeltoft, Carla Hassler, Linda Fleming, Anthony D Pechulis, Anne Payen-Fornicola, Nicholas Holman, Dennis Milanowski, Ian Cotterill, Vadim Mozhaev, Yuri Khmelnitsky, Peter R Guzzo, Bruce J Sargent, Bruce F Molino, Richard Olson, Dalton King, Snjezana Lelas, Yu-Wen Li, Kim Johnson, Thaddeus Molski, Anitra Orie, Alicia Ng, Roy Haskell, Wendy Clarke, Robert Bertekap, Jonathan O'Connell, Nicholas Lodge, Michael Sinz, Stephen Adams, Robert Zaczek, John E Macor

Affiliations

  1. AMRI , 26 Corporate Circle, Albany, New York 12212, United States.
  2. Bristol Myers Squibb R&D , 5 Research Parkway, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492-7660, United States.

PMID: 25050161 PMCID: PMC4094255 DOI: 10.1021/ml500053b

Abstract

A series of 4-bicyclic heteroaryl 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline inhibitors of the serotonin transporter (SERT), norepinephrine transporter (NET), and dopamine transporter (DAT) was discovered. The synthesis and structure-activity relationship (SAR) of these triple reuptake inhibitors (TRIs) will be discussed. Compound 10i (AMR-2), a very potent inhibitor of SERT, NET, and DAT, showed efficacy in the rat forced-swim and mouse tail suspension models with minimum effective doses of 0.3 and 1 mg/kg (po), respectively. At efficacious doses in these assays, 10i exhibited substantial occupancy levels at the three transporters in both rat and mouse brain. The study of the metabolism of 10i revealed the formation of a significant active metabolite, compound 13.

Keywords: TRI; Triple reuptake inhibitor; antidepressant; depression; dopamine reuptake inhibitor; norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor; serotonin reuptake inhibitor

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