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SAR studies of 6-aryl-1,3-dihydrobenzimidazol-2-ones as progesterone receptor antagonists
Terefenko, Eugene A.,Kern, Jeffrey,Fensome, Andrew,Wrobel, Jay,Zhu, Yuan,Cohen, Jeffrey,Winneker, Richard,Zhang, Zhiming,Zhang, Puwen
, p. 3600 - 3603 (2005)
We have previously reported that the aryl substituted benzimidazolones, benzoxazinones, and oxindoles (e.g., 1-3) are progesterone receptor (PR) antagonists and have recently disclosed that the nature of 5- and 6-aryl moieties played a critical role in PR functional activity in the oxindole and benzoxazinone templates. For example, replacing the phenyl group of PR antagonists 2 and 3 with a 5′-cyanopyrrol-2′-yl moiety switched their functional activity to PR agonist activity (2a and 3a). These findings prompted us to examine if there is a similar effect of the 6-aryl moieties on the PR functional activity for the benzimidazolone template. Numerous analogs, such as 5, showed potent PR antagonist activity with about a 10-fold increase in potency as compared to those reported earlier in the same series. More interestingly, pyrrole-containing benzimidazolones 24-27 remained as PR antagonists in contrast to the PR agonist activity switch for oxindole and benzoxazinone scaffolds when a 5′-cyanopyrrol-2′-yl group was installed as a pendant aryl group.