Opiate compounds, methods of making and methods of use

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2002-03-19

2003-04-22

Aulakh, Charanjit S. (Department: 1625)

Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions

Designated organic active ingredient containing

Having -c-, wherein x is chalcogen, bonded directly to...

C546S101000, C546S079000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06552032

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to novel opioid receptor antagonists and agonists, methods of making these compounds, and methods of use.
2. Description of the Background
The opioid receptor system has been extensively studied over the past eight decades, driven primarily by a search for analgesics that do not possess the abuse potential associated with morphine. While these studies were unsuccessful, our understanding of the opioid system has increased tremendously. A significant breakthrough in our understanding of this system came about as a realization that the pharmacology of opioids is receptor based. From this vantage point, the focus of research turned to identifying receptor subtypes with the ultimate goal of assigning specific physiological function to individual receptors. Today, the receptor system is known to be composed of the three distinct subtypes OP
1
, OP
2
, and OP
3
(delta, kappa and mu), as each of these have been cloned and been shown to derive from three different chromosomes. For a discussion of opioid receptors, see Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Volume 17, Fourth Edition, 1996, pp. 858-881. There is however less however as to the number of subtypes within each of the main branches and while much has been learned along these lines, the process of assigning function to subtypes is still an area of active investigation.
The opioid receptor system has been extensively studied over the past eight decades driven primarily by a search for analgesics that do not possess the abuse potential associated with morphine. While this effort has been unsuccessful to date, recent studies have highlighted the delta opioid receptor system as holding the greatest potential for success. Principally, agonists acting through the delta opioid receptor have been shown to modulate pain while minimizing many of the side-effects associated with morphine which acts primarily at the mu opioid receptor. These unwanted side-effects include physical dependence, respiratory depression, and gastrointestinal motility problems. These findings have led to a dramatic increase in the research efforts directed toward the production of potent, highly delta receptor selective agonists. The bulk of this effort has been in discovering small molecules as opposed to peptides due to their enhanced stability in vivo and their ability to penetrate the central nervous system.
I.
The discovery of potent, highly receptor-selective opioid pure antagonists has been a goal of medicinal chemists for many years.
1,2
As molecular probes, antagonists have served as useful tools in the study of both the structure as well as the physiological functions of the highly complex opioid receptor system. Much has been accomplished as evidenced by the elegant work of Portoghese and coworkers over the past decade which ultimately has led to the discovery of the naltrexone-based kappa and delta receptor subtype-selective antagonists norbinaltorphimine
3
(1, nor-BNI) and naltrindole
4
(2, NTI), respectively. Following Portoghese's lead, workers at SmithKline Beecham recently reported that the octahydroisoquinoline (3, SB 205588) was a second-generation, highly potent and selective delta antagonist formally derived from naltrindole fragmentation. One specific research aim has been the discovery of opioid receptor selective reversibly binding ligands from the N-substituted (+)-(3R,4R)-dimethyl-4(3-hydroxyphenyl)piperidine (4a) class of compounds that display pure antagonist activity.
6
These compounds will be useful as molecular probes for the opioid receptor as well as potential drug candidates for the treatment of substance abuse and other CNS disorders.
7
While mu antagonists have for years been used in drug abuse therapy, recent findings suggest that kappa antagonists could provide a more effective, long-lasting treatment strategy.
8
A great variety of N-substituted derivatives of 4a has been prepared, but until the recent demonstration of mu selectivity for 5a,
9
none had shown selectivity between the opioid receptor subtypes. Since the pure antagonist activity of these compounds is not dependent on the N-substituent, multiple changes to this part of the molecule would be expected to affect binding affinity and possibly receptor selectivity but not alter its fundamental antagonist character. This feature distinguishes this class of antagonist from the morphone-based compounds, which display pure antagonist behavior only with N-substituents such as allyl or cyclopropylmethyl but not methyl, ethyl, or phenethyl.
10
It is currently believed that the N-substituent in 4a interacts with a lipophilic binding domain which has been described as either very large or quite malleable since a multitude of different types of N-substituent changes provided ligands displaying high binding affinity.
11
It has also been determined that maximum potency and selectivity for the mu opioid receptor is achieved when the N-substituent incorporates a lipophilic entity (phenyl or cyclohexyl ring) separated from the piperidine nitrogen by three atoms as illustrated by compounds 5a.
9,11
The synthesis of K-selective compounds remains an important goal.
II.
Derivatives of N-substituted (±)-trans-3,4-dimethyl(3-hydroxyphenyl)piperidine, such as 6 and 7, are known to posses nonselective potent opioid pure antagonist activity.
12-16
Early investigations of the phenylpiperidine class of opioid antagonists identified the 3methyl substituent and its trans relative relationship to the 4-substituent as being both necessary and sufficient to impart antagonist activity to the agonist 4(3-hydroxyphenyl)piperidine.
12
This feature distinguished the phenylpiperidines from the oxymorphones which rely on particular N-substituents (i.e. allyl, cyclopropylmethyl) for expression of opioid antagonist activity. Further studies demonstrated that the N-substituent in the phenylpiperidine antagonists controls their potency and efficacy.
15
Accordingly, there remains a need for compounds which have similar therapeutic effects as the trans-3,4-dimethyl-4-(3-hydroxyphenyl)piperidines, but are based on different structural elements.
III.
Numerous structural types of opioid agonists have been discovered, and several such as methadone, meperidine, fentanyl, and pentazocine as well as others have become important drugs for the treatment of pain.
10
However, there are only a few structural types that show potent, opioid pure antagonist activity.
10,7
A resurgence in heroin use in recent years coupled with the demonstrated effectiveness of opioid antagonists for the treatment of other substances of abuse has spurred new interest in the development of novel antagonists for opioid receptors.
16
The oxymorphone-related compounds such as naloxone (8a) and naltrexone (8b), where the antagonist activity is dependent upon the N-substituent, have received considerable attention over the past few decades.
10
For example, pioneering studies by Portoghese and coworkers lead to the development of the prototypical kappa and delta opioid receptor antagonists, norbinaltorphimine (1, nor-BNI) and naltrindole (2, NTI). In contrast, the N-substituted trans-3,4-dimethyl-(3-hydroxyphenyl)piperidine (9a-d) class of pure antagonist has received relatively little attention. Studies with the N-methyl analog
9
a
as well as many other N-substituted analogs such as 9b, 9c (LY255582), and
9
d showed that the pure antagonist activity was dependent on the 3-methyl substituent and its trans relative relationship to the 4-methyl substituent on the piperidine ring and, unlike the oxymorphone class, was independent of the nature of the N-substituent.
7,16,17,6,13,14
Interestingly, the 3,4-dimethyl cis isomer
9
e
was found to be a mixed agonist-antagonist. May and coworkers
18
reported that 2,9&agr;-dimethyl-5-(3-hydroxyphenyl)morphan (10a), which has the 9-methyl group in a configuration comparable to the cis-3,4-dimethyl-4-(3-hydroxyphenyl)piperidine (9e) with the 5-(3-hydroxyphenyl) group locked in

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