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Author: Muckelbauer, Jodi ; Li, Jun ; Locke, Kenneth T. ; Meyers, Daniel S. ; Lim, Ngiap-Kie ; Krystek, Stanley R. ; Chang, Chiehying ; O’Malley, Kevin M. ; Shi, Yan ; Hernández, Andrés S. ; Kadiyala, Pathanjali ; Grimm, Denise ; Blanar, Michael A. ; Zhang, Rongan ; Mukherjee, Ranjan ; Zhang, Litao ; Kennedy, Lawrence J. ; Li, Yi-Xin ; Monshizadegan, Hossain ; Zahler, Robert ; Tao, Shiwei ; Xu, Carrie ; Wong, Henry ; Harrity, Thomas ; Chen, Bang-Chi ; Hosagrahara, Vinayak ; Miao, Bowman ; Cheng, Peter T. W. ; Zhang, Huiping ; Zhu, Juliang ; Tino, Joseph A. ; Trehan, Ashok ; Srivastava, Rai Ajit ; Lai, Zhi ; Chen, Sean ; Zhang, Lisa ; Kunselman, Lori K. ; Cap, Michael ; Search, Debra
BMS-711939 (3) is a potent and selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) α agonist, with an EC50 of 4 nM for human PPARα and >1000-fold selectivity vs human PPARγ (EC50 = 4.5 μM) and PPARδ (EC50 > 100 μM) in PPAR-GAL4 transactivation assays. Compound 3 also demonstrated excellent in vivo efficacy and safety profiles in preclinical studies and thus was chosen for further preclinical evaluation. The synthesis, structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies, and in vivo pharmacology of 3 in preclinical animal models as well as its ADME profile are described.