N-alkanoylphenylalamine derivatives

Details N-alkanoylphenylalamine derivatives N-alkanoylphenylalamine derivatives

2002-04-05

2004-10-19

Raymond, Richard L. (Department: 1624)

Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series

Organic compounds

Four or more ring nitrogens in the bicyclo ring system

C546S323000, C548S214000, C548S253000, C548S374100, C548S536000, C549S436000, C552S010000, C558S406000, C558S415000, C560S030000, C562S426000, C562S429000, C562S430000, C562S435000, C562S441000, C562S448000, C562S449000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06806365

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), a member of the immunoglobulin (Ig) supergene family, is expressed on activated, but not resting, endothelium. The integrin VLA-4 (a
4
b
1
), which is expressed on many cell types including circulating lymphocytes, eosinophils, basophils, and monocytes, but not neutrophils, is the principal receptor for VCAM-1. Antibodies to VCAM-1 or VLA-4 can block the adhesion of these mononuclear leukocytes, as well as melanoma cells, to activated endothelium in vitro. Antibodies to either protein have been effective at inhibiting leukocyte infiltration and preventing tissue damage in several animal models of inflammation. Anti-VLA-4 monoclonal antibodies have been shown to block T-cell emigration in adjuvant-induced arthritis, prevent eosinophil accumulation and bronchoconstriction in models of asthma, and reduce paralysis and inhibit monocyte and lymphocyte infiltration in experimental autoimmune encephalitis (EAE). Anti-VCAM-1 monoclonal antibodies have been shown to prolong the survival time of cardiac allografts. Recent studies have demonstrated that anti-VLA-4 mAbs can prevent insulitis and diabetes in non-obese diabetic mice, and significantly attenuate inflammation in the cotton-top tamarin model of colitis.
Thus, compounds which inhibit the interaction between &agr;
4
-containing integrins, such as VLA-4 and VCAM-1, will be useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), multiple sclerosis (MS), pulmonary inflammation (e.g., asthma), and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It has been discovered that compounds of the formula:
and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof wherein X, X′, Z and Y are as defined below, inhibit the binding of VCAM-1 to VLA-4 and so would be useful in treating inflammatory diseases in which such binding acts to bring on the disease.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
As used in this specification, the term “lower alkyl”, alone or in combination (for example, as part of “lower alkanoyl,” below), means a straight-chain or branched-chain alkyl group containing a maximum of six carbon atoms, such as methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, sec.butyl, isobutyl, tert.butyl, n-pentyl, n-hexyl and the like. Lower alkyl groups may be unsubstituted or substituted by one or more groups selected independently from cycloalkyl, nitro, aryloxy, aryl, hydroxy, halogen, cyano, lower alkoxy, lower alkoxycarbonyl, lower alkanoyl, lower alkylthio, lower alkyl sulfinyl, lower alkyl sulfonyl, and substituted amino, e.g., lower alkoxycarbonyl amino. Examples of substituted lower alkyl groups include 2-hydroxyethyl, 2-methoxypropyl, 3-oxobutyl, cyanomethyl, trifluoromethyl, 2-nitropropyl, benzyl, including p-chloro-benzyl and p-methoxy-benzyl, and 2-phenyl ethyl.
The term “cycloalkyl” means an unsubstituted or substituted 3- to 7-membered carbacyclic ring. Substitutents useful in accordance with the present invention are hydroxy, halogen, cyano, lower alkoxy, lower alkanoyl, lower alkyl, aroyl, lower alkylthio, lower alkyl sulfinyl, lower alkyl sulfonyl, aryl, heteroaryl and substituted amino.
The term “heterocycloalkyl” means an unsubstituted or substituted 5- to 6-membered carbacyclic ring in which one or two of the carbon atoms has been replaced by heteroatoms independently selected from O, S and N. Preferred heterocycloalkyl groups are pyrrolidinyl and morpholinyl.
The term “lower alkoxy” means a lower alkyl group (as defined above) bonded through an oxygen atom. Examples of unsubstituted lower alkoxy groups are methoxy, ethoxy, n-propoxy, isopropoxy, n-butoxy, tert-butoxy and the like.
The term “lower alkylthio” means a lower alkyl group bonded through a divalent sulfur atom, for example, a methyl mercapto or a isopropyl mercapto group.
The term “aryl” means a mono- or bicylic aromatic group, such as phenyl or naphthyl, which is unsubstituted or substituted by conventional substituent groups. Preferred subsituents are lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, hydroxy lower alkyl, hydroxy, hydroxyalkoxy, halogen, lower alkylthio, lower alkylsulfinyl, lower alkylsulfonyl, cyano, nitro, perfluoroalkyl, alkanoyl, aroyl, aryl alkynyl, heteroaryl (especially tetrazolyl), lower alkynyl and lower alkanoylamino. Examples of aryl groups that may be used in accordance with this invention are unsubstituted phenyl, m- or o-nitrophenyl, p-tolyl, m- or p-methoxyphenyl, 3,4-dimethoxyphenyl, p-chlorophenyl, p-cyanophenyl, m-methylthiophenyl, 2-methyl-5-nitrophenyl, 2,6-dichlorophenyl, m-perfluorophenyl, 1-naphthyl, m- or p-2-methyltetraozolyl, and the like.
The term “arylalkyl” means a lower alkyl group as hereinbefore defined in which one or more hydrogen atoms is/are replaced by an aryl or heteroaryl group as herein defined. Any conventional arylalkyl may be used in accordance with this invention, such as benzyl, 2-phenyl ethyl, and the like.
The term “aryloxy” means an aryl group, as hereinbefore defined which is bonded via an oxygen atom. The preferred aryloxy group is phenoxy.
The term “heteroaryl” means an unsubstituted or substituted 5- or 6-membered monocyclic hetereoaromatic ring or a 9- or 10-membered bicyclic hetereoaromatic ring containing 1, 2, 3 or 4 hetereoatoms which are independently N, S or O. Examples of hetereoaryl rings are pyridine, benzimidazole, indole, imidazole, thiophene, isoquinoline, quinzoline, tetrazole, and the like. Substitutents as defined above for “aryl” are included in the definition of heteroaryl. The wide variety of heteroaryl groups useful in accordance with the invention is illustrated by Examples 56, 57, 74, 364 and 381-386.
The term “lower alkoxycarbonyl” means a lower alkoxy group bonded via a carbonyl group. Examples of alkoxycarbonyl groups are methoxycarbony, ethoxycarbonyl, t-butoxycarbonyl and the like.
The term “lower alkylcarbonyloxy” means lower alkylcarbonyl groups bonded via an oxygen atom, for example an acetoxy group.
The term “lower alkanoyl” means lower alkyl groups bonded via a carbonyl group and embraces in the sense of the foregoing definition groups such as acetyl, propionyl and the like. Where the lower alkyl portion of the lower alkanoyl group is substituted, the preferred substitutents are methoxy, trifluoro, phenyl, cyclopentyl, methoxycarbonyl, amino and t-butoxycarbonylamino.
The term “lower alkylcarbonylamino” means lower alkylcarbonyl groups bonded via a nitrogen atom, such as acetylamino.
The term “aroyl” means an mono- or bicyclic aryl or heteroaryl group bonded via a carbonyl group. Examples of aroyl groups are benzoyl, 3-cyanobenzoyl, m-perfluromethyl-benzoyl, p-methoxy-benzoyl, 2-naphthoyl, groups of the formula:
and the like.
The present invention comprises a compound of the formula:
and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof.
In accordance with the invention, Z is hydrogen or lower alkyl (preferably hydrogen), one of X and X′ is hydrogen, halogen, or lower alkyl (X′ is preferably hydrogen), and the other (preferably X) is a group X-6, X-7 or X-10 as described below. Y is a group Y-1 or Y-2 as described below.
Y-1 is a group of the formula:
wherein:
R
22
and R
23
are independently aryl, heteroaryl or lower alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or more chloro, bromo, nitro, hydroxy, lower alkoxy, aryl, lower alkanoyl, aroyl or cyano,
R
24
is aryl, cyano, alkylsulfonyl or lower alkyl or alkenyl unsubstituted or substituted by an aryl or heteroaryl ring, and when R
22
is aryl and R
23
is aryl or lower alkyl, hydrogen, and
the total number of carbon atoms in R
22
, R
23
and R
24
is from 6 to 14.
In Y-1, R
22
and R
23
are preferably lower alkyl or phenyl, and R
24
is preferably lower alkyl except when R
22
is aryl and R
23
is aryl or lower alkyl, then R
24
is preferably hydrogen.
However, Y is preferably the group Y-2 which is a 3-7 membered ring of the formula:
wherein:
R
25
is lower alkyl, unsubstituted or fluorine substituted lower alkenyl, or a group of formula R
26
—(CH
2
)
e
—,
R

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