title: Synthesis Of Pyrido-Annelated Seven-Membered N-Containing Heterocycles.
abstract: Pharmaceutical industry is struggling with a lack of potential drugs in the pipe line. However, there is still a great opportunity to elaborate interesting scaffolds for medicinal chemistry. Various scaffolds that hold promise are rarely described in the literature. The last couple of decades, the wide range of biological activities of benzodiazepine derivatives have been investigated thoroughly and make the benzodiazepine scaffold, particularly the 1,4-benzodiazepine system, one of the most important structures for drug discovery. The substantial research on benzodiazepines has led to the synthesis of heterocycle-fused azepine derivatives with potentially new pharmacological activity. Some pyridoazepines are known to be active in the central nervous system and have a comparable activity to the well-known benzodiazepine scaffolds, which make the synthesis and study of pyridoazepines an important research topic.
authors.forename: Koen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Muylaert
authors.forename: Martyna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jatczak
authors.forename: Sven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mangelinckx
authors.affiliation: Department Of Sustainable Organic Chemistry And Technology, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Chris.Stevens@Ugent.Be.
authors.forename: Christian V
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Stevens