Pontillo Joseph, Chen Chen
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc., 12790 El Camino Real, San Diego, CA 92130, USA.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2005 Mar 1;15(5):1407-11. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2005.01.009.
Treatment of various 2-methyl oxazolines or thiazolines with chlorocarbonyl isocyanate gives the corresponding bicyclic oxazolino- or thiazolino[3,2-c]pyrimidin-5,7-dione derivatives in very good yield. This reaction has been applied to the rapid syntheses of human gonadotropin-releasing hormone (hGnRH) receptor antagonists for SAR study, resulting in 13e with binding affinity in the low nanomolar range (4.5 nM).