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Design, Synthesis and Bioactivity of Highly Sterically Congested Flexible Uric Acid Transporter 1 (URAT1) Inhibitors

  • Cai Wenqing ,
  • Liu Wei ,
  • Zhang Shuo ,
  • Wang Jianwu ,
  • Zhao Guilong
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  • a School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100;
    b Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Design and Drug Discovery, Tianjin Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, Tianjin 300193;
    c Shandong Key Laboratory for Special Silicon-Containing Materials, Advanced Materials Institute, Shandong Academy of Sciences, Jinan 250014

Received date: 2017-04-24

  Revised date: 2017-05-18

  Online published: 2017-05-25

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Project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No. ZR2015BM028).

Abstract

The flexible naphthyltriazolylmethane-bearing uric acid transporter 1 (URAT1) inhibitor 1 is a novel, highly potent drug candidate for the treatment of hyperuricemia and gout. In order to understand the effect of substituents at the CH2 linker between naphthalene and triazole rings on the bioactivity, 7 highly congested compounds 2a~2g were designed and synthesized. All the synthesized compounds were characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR and HRMS, and their in vitro URAT1 inhibitory assay was studied. The results showed that the bioactivity decreased dramatically after the introduction of substituents to the CH2 linker, and among the synthesized compounds the bioactivity dropped as the flexibility of the molecules decreased, strongly indicating that any substituents at the CH2 linker were intolerable. The structure-activity relationship discovered here will be valuable to the design of URAT1 inhibitors.

Cite this article

Cai Wenqing , Liu Wei , Zhang Shuo , Wang Jianwu , Zhao Guilong . Design, Synthesis and Bioactivity of Highly Sterically Congested Flexible Uric Acid Transporter 1 (URAT1) Inhibitors[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017 , 37(9) : 2303 -2314 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc201704038

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