125708-66-9Relevant academic research and scientific papers
The discovery of 2-substituted phenol quinazolines as potent RET kinase inhibitors with improved KDR selectivity
Newton, Rebecca,Bowler, Katherine A.,Burns, Emily M.,Chapman, Philip J.,Fairweather, Emma E.,Fritzl, Samantha J.R.,Goldberg, Kristin M.,Hamilton, Niall M.,Holt, Sarah V.,Hopkins, Gemma V.,Jones, Stuart D.,Jordan, Allan M.,Lyons, Amanda J.,Nikki March,McDonald, Neil Q.,Maguire, Laura A.,Mould, Daniel P.,Purkiss, Andrew G.,Small, Helen F.,Stowell, Alexandra I.J.,Thomson, Graeme J.,Waddell, Ian D.,Waszkowycz, Bohdan,Watson, Amanda J.,Ogilvie, Donald J.
, p. 20 - 32 (2016/02/19)
Deregulation of the receptor tyrosine kinase RET has been implicated in medullary thyroid cancer, a small percentage of lung adenocarcinomas, endocrine-resistant breast cancer and pancreatic cancer. There are several clinically approved multi-kinase inhibitors that target RET as a secondary pharmacology but additional activities, most notably inhibition of KDR, lead to dose-limiting toxicities. There is, therefore, a clinical need for more specific RET kinase inhibitors. Herein we report our efforts towards identifying a potent and selective RET inhibitor using vandetanib 1 as the starting point for structure-based drug design. Phenolic anilinoquinazolines exemplified by 6 showed improved affinities towards RET but, unsurprisingly, suffered from high metabolic clearance. Efforts to mitigate the metabolic liability of the phenol led to the discovery that a flanking substituent not only improved the hepatocyte stability, but could also impart a significant gain in selectivity. This culminated in the identification of 36; a potent RET inhibitor with much improved selectivity against KDR.
QUINAZOLINE COMPOUNDS
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Paragraph 00241; 00242, (2015/06/11)
The present invention relates to quinazoline compounds of formula I that function as inhibitors of RET (rearranged during transfection) kinase enzyme activity: (Formula (I)) wherein X, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are each as defined herein. The present invention also relates to processes for the preparation of these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to their use in the treatment of proliferative disorders, such as cancer, as well as other diseases or conditions in which RET kinase activity is implicated.
