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GtoPdb Ligand ID: 8699

Synonyms: example 25 (US8940748) | MK-8931
PDB Ligand
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: This is a new INN/USAN for a Merck BACE1 inhibitor for clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Despite some early confusion surrounding the relationship between MK-8931, SCH 900931 and verubecestat, the article published by Scott et al. (2016) formally acknowledges verubecestat as MK-8931 [4].
Despite reaching Phase 3 clinical trial, Merck has announced (Feb 2017: Merck press release) termination of study NCT01739348 (in patients with mild-moderate AD) because they concluded there was no chance of achieving efficacy. This is the latest of a long list of BACE1 inhibitors to fail in AD. Papers reporting trial outcomes were published in May 2018 [1] and April 2019 [2].
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2D Structure
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2D Structure

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Physico-chemical Properties
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Physico-chemical Properties

Calculated molecular properties are available for small molecules and natural products (not peptides). Properties were generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/). All properties were selected to enable the prediction of the Lipinski Rule-of-Five profile or ‘druglikeness’ for each ligand. For more info on each category see the help pages.

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Hydrogen bond acceptors 8
Hydrogen bond donors 2
Rotatable bonds 4
Topological polar surface area 126.13
Molecular weight 409.1
XLogP 1.84
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0

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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey

SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) A specification for unambiguously describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings. Canonical SMILES specify a unique representation of the 2D structure without chiral or isotopic specifications. Isomeric SMILES include chiral specification and isotopes.

Standard InChI (IUPAC International Chemical Identifier) and InChIKey InChI is a non-proprietary, standard, textual identifier for chemical substances designed to facilitate linking of information and database searching. An InChIKey is a simplified version of a full InChI, designed for easier web searching.

Generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/)

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Canonical SMILES Fc1ccc(nc1)C(=O)Nc1ccc(c(c1)C1(C)N=C(N)N(S(=O)(=O)C1)C)F
Isomeric SMILES Fc1ccc(nc1)C(=O)Nc1ccc(c(c1)[C@@]1(C)N=C(N)N(S(=O)(=O)C1)C)F
InChI InChI=1S/C17H17F2N5O3S/c1-17(9-28(26,27)24(2)16(20)23-17)12-7-11(4-5-13(12)19)22-15(25)14-6-3-10(18)8-21-14/h3-8H,9H2,1-2H3,(H2,20,23)(H,22,25)/t17-/m0/s1
InChI Key YHYKUSGACIYRML-KRWDZBQOSA-N

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References
1. Egan MF, Kost J, Tariot PN, Aisen PS, Cummings JL, Vellas B, Sur C, Mukai Y, Voss T, Furtek C et al.. (2018)
Randomized Trial of Verubecestat for Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease.
N Engl J Med, 378 (18): 1691-1703. [PMID:29719179]
2. Egan MF, Kost J, Voss T, Mukai Y, Aisen PS, Cummings JL, Tariot PN, Vellas B, van Dyck CH, Boada M et al.. (2019)
Randomized Trial of Verubecestat for Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease.
N Engl J Med, 380 (15): 1408-1420. [PMID:30970186]
3. Scott JD et al.. (2015)
Iminothiadiazine dioxide compounds as BACE inhibitors, compositions, and their use.
Patent number: US8940748. Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme. Priority date: 08/10/2009. Publication date: 27/01/2015.
4. Scott JD, Li SW, Brunskill AP, Chen X, Cox K, Cumming JN, Forman M, Gilbert EJ, Hodgson RA, Hyde LA et al.. (2016)
Discovery of the 3-Imino-1,2,4-thiadiazinane 1,1-Dioxide Derivative Verubecestat (MK-8931)-A β-Site Amyloid Precursor Protein Cleaving Enzyme 1 Inhibitor for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.
J Med Chem, 59 (23): 10435-10450. [PMID:27933948]
5. Ueno T, Matsuoka E, Asada N, Yamamoto S, Kanegawa N, Ito M, Ito H, Moechars D, Rombouts FJR, Gijsen HJM et al.. (2021)
Discovery of Extremely Selective Fused Pyridine-Derived β-Site Amyloid Precursor Protein-Cleaving Enzyme (BACE1) Inhibitors with High In Vivo Efficacy through 10s Loop Interactions.
J Med Chem, 64 (19): 14165-14174. [PMID:34553947]