Q4 · MEDICINE
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Author: Wang, Feng ; Lindon, Matthew J. ; Nguyen, Cuc ; Foley, James J. ; Harker, Andy J. ; Rivero, Ralph A. ; Belmonte, Kristen E. ; Wang, Yonghui ; Browning, Chris ; Hartmann, Guido ; Hancock, Ashley P. ; Fornwald, James A. ; Vinader, Victoria M. ; Morrow, Dwight M. ; Kerns, Jeffery K. ; Connor, Helen E. ; Barrett, Victoria J. ; Moore, Michael L. ; Andrew, David P. ; Jin, Jian ; Rao, Parvathi ; Sarau, Henry M. ; Jurewicz, Anthony J. ; Stevenson, Graeme I.
High-throughput screening of the corporate compound collection led to the discovery of a novel series of N-substituted-5-aryl-oxazolidinones as potent human CCR8 antagonists. The synthesis, structure-activity relationships, and optimization of the series that led to the identification of SB-649701 (1a), are described.