Aza-retinoids as novel retinoid X receptor-specific agonists

…, L Zhi, AM Nadzan, DW Robertson, YL Bennani

Index: Farmer, Luc J.; Marron, Kristen S.; Canan Koch, Stacie S.; Hwang; Kallel, E. Adam; Zhi, Lin; Nadzan, Alex M.; Robertson, Dave W.; Bennani, Youssef L. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2006 , vol. 16, # 9 p. 2352 - 2356

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Abstract

A new structurally simple series of potent lipophilic aza-retinoids RXR agonists has been developed. SAR studies for the N-alkyl-azadienoic acids described here demonstrate that the RXR activity profile is sensitive to the N-alkyl chain length. Further, we have expanded the work to include azadienoic acids, which exhibited many accessible conformations leading to a better understanding of the SAR around the series.