A series of novel benzimidazoles are discussed as NR2B-selective N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists. High throughput screening (HTS) efforts identified a number of potent and selective NR2B antagonists such as 1. Exploration of the substituents around the core of this template identified a number of compounds with high potency for NR2B (pIC50> 7) and good selectivity against the NR2A subunit (pIC50< 4.3) as defined by ...
[Selvam, Kaliyamoorthy; Annadhasan, Mari; Velmurugan, Rengasamy; Swaminathan, Meenakshisundaram Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2010 , vol. 83, # 7 p. 831 - 837]
[Selvam, Kaliyamoorthy; Annadhasan, Mari; Velmurugan, Rengasamy; Swaminathan, Meenakshisundaram Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2010 , vol. 83, # 7 p. 831 - 837]