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A compound of formula (I), wherein Ar1, R21, R23, R24, R25, R26, R27, A, X, Y and W are as defined herein. The compounds of the present invention are inhibitors of hematopoietic prostaglandin D synthase (H-PGDS) and can be useful in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Accordingly, the invention is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of the invention. The invention is still further directed to methods of inhibiting H-PGDS activity and treatment of disorders associated therewith using a compound of the invention or a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of the invention.

The present invention relates to a novel biphenyl heterocyclic derivative represented by a general formula (I) and a preparation method thereof and use of a pharmaceutical composition containing the derivative for preparation of a drug for treating diabetes. The biphenyl heterocyclic derivative has extremely excellent hypoglycemic activity in vivo, and excellent in vivo safety and low liver toxicity risk of the compound having such a structure are unexpectedly found, and the novel biphenyl heterocyclic derivative may be used for preventing or treating diabetes.

The free fatty acid receptor 1 (FFA1) has emerged as an attractive anti-diabetic target that mediates glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. Several FFA1 agonists have been reported, but many of them possessed somewhat high lipophilicity and/or molecular weight. Herein, we describe the identification of sulfone-carboxylic acid moiety with the multiple advantages of reducing lipophilicity, cytotoxicity and β-oxidation associated with compound 2. Further structure-activity relationship study based on the previleged scaffolds led to the discovery of 2-{(4-[(2’-chloro-[1,1’-biphenyl]-3-yl)methoxy]phenyl)sulfonyl}acetic acid (compound 20), which showed a better balance than compound 2 in terms of physicochemical properties, cytotoxicity profiles and pharmacokinetic properties. Subsequent in vivo studies demonstrated that compound 20 robustly improves the glucose tolerance both in normal and type 2 diabetic models without the risk of hypoglycemia. Compared to the high risk of TAK-875 induced liver toxicity, there was no significant adverse effects such as hepatic and renal toxicity were observed in the chronic toxicity studies of compound 20 even at the higher dose.

The free fatty acid receptor 1 (FFA1/GPR40) has attracted interest as a novel target for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Several series of FFA1 agonists including TAK-875, the most advanced compound terminated in phase III studies due to concerns about liver toxicity, have been hampered by relatively high molecular weight and lipophilicity. Aiming to develop potent FFA1 agonists with low risk of liver toxicity by decreasing the lipophilicity, the middle phenyl of TAK-875 was replaced by 11 polar five-membered heteroaromatics. Subsequently, systematic exploration of SAR and application of molecular modeling, leads to the identification of compound 44, which was an excellent FFA1 agonist with robustly hypoglycemic effect both in normal and type 2 diabetic mice, low risks of hypoglycemia and liver toxicity even at the twice molar dose of TAK-875. Meanwhile, two important findings were noted. First, the methyl group in our thiazole series occupied a small hydrophobic subpocket which had no interactions with TAK-875. Furthermore, the agonistic activity revealed a good correlation with the dihedral angle between thiazole core and the terminal benzene ring. These results promote the understanding of ligand-binding pocket and might help to design more promising FFA1 agonists.

Therapeutics of metastatic or triple-negative breast cancer are still challenging in clinical. Herein we demonstrated the design and optimization of a series of hybrid of 2,4-diaminopyrimidine and arylthiazole derivatives for their anti-proliferative properties against two breast cancer cell lines (MCF-7 as human breast cancer and MDA-MB-231 as triple-negative breast cancer). More importantly, some of those compounds with potent antiproliferative activities also indicated excellent inhibitory activities against MDA-MB-231 cell migration. These results suggested that the new series of hybridation of aryl-thiazoles and aminopyrimidines could be identified and developed as novel highly potential anticancer agents against the triple-negative breast cancer as well as metastatic one in the future.