Heteroaromatic carboxylic esters of (nor) tropine were synthesized. Tropine esters displaced [3H] strychnine binding to glycine receptors of rat spinal cord with low Hill slopes. Two-site displacement resulted in nanomolar IC50, 1 and micromolar IC50, 2 values, and IC50, 2/IC50, 1 ratios up to 615 depending on the heteroaromatic rings and N-methyl substitution. Nortropeines displayed high affinity and low heterogeneity. IC50, 1 and IC50, 2 values of ...