Amino acid derivatives

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2001-11-29

2003-09-09

McKane, Joseph K. (Department: 1626)

Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions

Designated organic active ingredient containing

Heterocyclic carbon compounds containing a hetero ring...

C548S953000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06617320

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to novel pharmaceutically useful compounds, in particular competitive inhibitors of trypsin-like serine proteases, especially thrombin, their use as medicaments, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and synthetic routes to their production.
BACKGROUND
Blood coagulation is the key process involved in both haemostasis (i.e. the prevention of blood loss from a damaged vessel) and thrombosis (i.e. the formation of a blood clot in a blood vessel or in the heart, sometimes leading to vessel obstruction).
Coagulation is the result of a complex series of enzymatic reactions. One of the ultimate steps in this series of reactions is the conversion of the proenzyme prothrombin to the active enzyme thrombin.
Thrombin is known to play a central role in coagulation. It activates platelets, leading to platelet aggregation, converts fibrinogen into fibrin monomers, which polymerise spontaneously into fibrin polymers, and activates factor XIII, which in turn crossinks the polymers to form insoluble fibrin. Furthermore, thrombin activates factor V and factor VIII leading to a “positive feedback” generation of thrombin from prothrombin.
By inhibiting the aggregation of platelets and the formation and crosslinking of fibrin, effective inhibitors of thrombin would therefore be expected to exhibit antithrombotic activity. In addition, antithrombotic activity would be expected to be enhanced by effective inhibition of the positive feedback mechanism.
PRIOR ART
The development of low molecular weight inhibitors of thrombin has been described by Claesson in Blood Coagul. Fibrinol. (1994) 5, 411.
Blombäck et al. (
J. Clin. Lab. Invest
24, suppl. 107, 59, (1969)) reported thrombin inhibitors based on the amino acid sequence situated around the cleavage site for the fibrinogen A&agr; chain. Of the amino acid sequences discussed, these authors suggested the sequence Phe-Val-Arg (P9-2-P1, hereinafter referred to as the P3-P2-P1 sequence) would be the most effective inhibitor (for a classification of substrate specificity see Schechten and Bergen, Biophys. Res. Commun. (1967) 27, 157 and (1968) 32, 898).
Thrombin inhibitors based on dipeptidyl derivatives with an &agr;,&ohgr;-aminoalkyl guanidine in the P1-position are known from U.S. Pat. No 4,346,078 and International Patent Application WO 93/11152. Similar, structurally related, dipeptidyl derivatives have also been reported. For example International Patent Application WO 94/29336 discloses compounds with, for example, aminomethyl bennamidines, cyclic aminoalkyl amidines and cyclic aminoalkyl guanidines in the P1-position; European Patent Application 0 648 780, discloses compounds with, for example, cyclic aminoalkyl guanidines in the P1-position.
Thrombin inhibitors based on peptidyl derivatives, also having cyclic aminoalkyl guanidines (e.g. either 3- or 4-aminomethyl-1-amidinopiperidine) in the P1-position, are known from European Patent Applications 0 468 231, 0 559 046 and 0 641 779.
Thrombin inhibitors based on tripeptidyl derivatives with arginine aldehyde in the P1-position were first disclosed in European Patent Application 0 185 390.
More recently, arginine aldehyde-based peptidyl derivatives, modified in the P3-position, have been reported. For example, International Patent Application WO 93/18060 discloses hydroxy acids, European Patent Application 0 526 877 des-amino acids, and European Patent Application 0 542 525 O-methyl mandelic acids in the P3-position.
Inhibitors of serine proteases (e.g. thrombin) based on electrophilic ketones in the P1-position are also known. For example, European Patent Application 0 195 212 discloses peptidyl &agr;-keto esters and amides, European Patent Application 0 362 002 fluoroalkylaride ketones, European Patent Application 0 364 344 &agr;,&bgr;,&dgr;-triketocompounds, and European Patent Application 0 530 167 &agr;-alkoxy ketone derivatives of arginine in the P1-position.
Other, structurally different, inhibitors of trypsin-like serine proteases based on C-terminal boronic acid derivatives of arginine and isothiouronium analogues thereof are known from European Patent Application 0 293 881.
More recently, thrombin inhibitors based on tripeptidyl derivatives have been disclosed in European Patent Applications 0 669 317, 0 686 642 and 0 648 780 and International Patent Applications WO 95/35309, WO 95/23609 and WO 94/29336.
However, there remains a need for effective inhibitors of trypsin-like serine proteases, such as thrombin. There is a particular need for compounds which are both orally bioavailable and selective in inhibiting thiombin over other serine proteases. Compounds which exhibit competitive inhibitory activity towards thrombin would be expected to be especially useful as anticoagulants and therefore useful in the therapeutic treatment of thrombosis and related disorders.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
According to the invention there is provided a compound of formula I,
wherein
p and q independently represent 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4;
R
1
represents H, 2,3-epoxypropyl, C
1-6
alkyl (which latter group is optionally substituted or terminated by one or more hydroxy group), a structural fragment of formula Ia
wherein A
1
represents a single bond or C
1-4
alkylene and R
x
represents H or C
1-4
alkyl, provided that there are no more than six carbon atoms in the chain R
x
—C—C—A
1
, or, when p represents 0, together with R
2
represents a structural fragment of formula Ib,
wherein R
y
represents H or C
1-3
alkyl;
R
2
represents H, Si(Me)
3
, naphthyl, indolyl, CHR
21
R
22
or C
1-4
alkyl (which latter group is optionally substituted or terminated by one or more fluorine or hydroxy group) or C
3-8
cycloalkyl or phenyl (which latter two groups are optionally substituted by one or more of C
1-4
alkyl, C
1-4
alkoxy, halo, hydroxy, cyano, nitro, methylenedioxy, trifluoromethyl, N(H)R
23
, C(O)OR
24
), or, when p represents 0, together with R
1
represents a structural fragment of formula Ib;
R
3
represents H, Si(Me)
3
, naphthyl, indolyl, CHR
25
R
26
or C
1-6
alkyl (which latter group) is optionally substituted or terminated by one or more fluorine or hydroxy group) or C
3-8
cycloalkyl or phenyl (which latter two groups are optionally substituted by one or more of C
1-4
allyl, C
1-4
alkoxy, halo, hydroxy, cyano, nitro, methylenedioxy, trifluoromethyl, N(H)R
27
or C(O)OR
28
);
R
21
, R
22
, R
25
and R
26
independently represent cyclohexyl or phenyl;
R
23
and R
27
independently represent H, C
1-4
alkyl or C(O)R
29
;
R
24
, R
28
and R
29
independently represent H or C
1-4
alkyl;
R
4
represents H or C
1-4
alkyl;
Y represents C
1-3
alkylene optionally substituted by C
1-4
alkyl, hydroxy, methylene or oxo;
n represents 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; and
B represents a structural fragment of formula IVa, IVb or IVc
wherein
R
5
represents H, halo or C
1-4
alkyl; and
X
1
and X
2
independently represent a single bond or CH
2
;
provided that when R
1
, R
2
and R
4
all represent H, p represents 0, Y represents (CH
2
)
2
, n represents 1 and:
(a) R
3
represents unsubstituted phenyl and:
(i) B represents a structural fragment of formula IVa and R
5
represents H, then q does not represent 0 or 1; and
(ii) B represents a structural fragment of formula IVb and X
1
and X
2
both represent CH
2
, then q does not represent 0; and
(b) R
3
represents unsubstituted cyclohexyl, B represents a structural fragment of formula IVa and R
5
represents H, then q does not represent 0;
or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof (hereinafter referred to as “the compounds of the invention”).
The compounds of the invention may exhibit tautomerism. All tautomeric forms and mixtures thereof are included within the scope of the invention.
The compounds of the invention may also contain one or more asymmetric carbon atoms and may therefore exhibit optical and/or diastereoisomerism. All diastereoisomers may be separated using conventional techniques, e.g. chromatography or fractional crystallisation. The various stereoisomers may be isolated by separation of a racemic or

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