(1) Department of Chemistry BC, Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark;(2) Department of Organic Chemistry 3, Chemical Center, University of Lund, P.O. Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Abstract:
Summary A series of apomorphine congeners has been studied with respect to their ability to mimic the structural requirements of the dopamine pharmacophore in the potent and stereoselective dopamine receptor agonist (R)-apomorphine. Conformational energies of the mimicking structures calculated by molecular mechanics (MMP2) correlate well with the observed biological activities.