2,3-Diamino acid modifying 3S-tetrahydroisoquinoline-3-carboxylic acids: Leading to a class of novel agents with highly unfolded conformation, selective in vitro anti-platelet aggregation and potent in vivo anti-thrombotic activity

In the preparation of anti-thrombotic agents the 2- and 3-positions of 3S-tetra-hydroisoquinoline-3-carboxylic acid (THIQA) were simultaneously modified with amino acids to form 20 novel N-(3S-N-amino-acyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline-3-carbonyl) amino acids (8a-t). On an in vitro platelet aggregation model 8a-t selectively inhibit ADP-induced platelet aggregation and their IC50 values are leas than 3.5 nM. On an extracorporeal circulation of arterioveinos cannula model of rats both orally and intraveously effective doses of 8a-t are less than 30 nmol/kg. Cerius(2) based stereoview of explores 8a-t having highly unfolded conformation. 3D QSAR analysis gives the importance of the unfolded conformation to high in vitro anti-platelet aggregation and in vivo anti-thrombotic potency rational understanding. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.