title: Synthesis and structure-activity relationships of N-(3-phenylpropyl)-N'-benzylpiperazines: Potent ligands for sigma1 and sigma2 receptors.
abstract: Ten N-(3-phenylpropyl)-N'-benzylpiperazines having different substituents on the benzyl moiety were synthesized and evaluated for sigma(1) and sigma(2) receptor binding. The sigma(1) affinities were 0.37-2.80nM, sigma(2) affinities were 1.03-34.3nM, and selectivities, as sigma(2)/sigma(1) affinity ratios, ranged from 1.4 to 52. Three compounds tested in a phenytoin shift binding assay profiled as probable sigma(1) antagonists. Quantitative structure-activity relationships depended on pi(x), MR or E(s) and Hammett sigma values. The hydrophobicity term is negative for sigma(1) binding but positive for sigma(2) binding, indicating a major difference between the pharmacophores.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65212, USA.
authors.forename: Roger I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Nahas
authors.forename: John R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Lever
authors.forename: Susan Z
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Lever
mesh_terms: D020650:Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques; D008024:Ligands; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010879:Piperazines / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship; D017480:Receptors, sigma / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D010879:Piperazines; D017480:Receptors, sigma