A new series of piperazines, diazepanes, diazocanes, diazabicyclononanes, and diazabicyclodecanes with affinity for the α4β2 subtype of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors were synthesized on the basis of results from a previous computational study. A predictive 3D-QSAR model was developed using the GRID/GOLPE approach (R 2= 0.94, Q 2= 0.83, SDEP= 0.34). The SAR was interpreted in terms of contour maps of the PLS coefficients ...