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Publication Abstract from PubMed

In this Letter, we provide the structure-activity relationships, optimization of design, testing criteria, and human half-life data for a series of selective COX-2 inhibitors. During the course of our structure-based drug design efforts, we discovered two distinct binding modes within the COX-2 active site for differently substituted members of this class. The challenge of a undesirably long human half-life for the first clinical candidate 1t(1/2)=360h was addressed by multiple strategies, leading to the discovery of 29b-(S) (SC-75416) with t(1/2)=34h.

The novel benzopyran class of selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors. Part 2: The second clinical candidate having a shorter and favorable human half-life.,Wang JL, Limburg D, Graneto MJ, Springer J, Hamper JR, Liao S, Pawlitz JL, Kurumbail RG, Maziasz T, Talley JJ, Kiefer JR, Carter J Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2010 Jul 24. PMID:20709553^[1]

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