Seventeen biarylcarboxybenzamide derivatives were prepared for the study of their agonistic/antagonistic activities to the vanilloid receptor (VR1) in rat DRG neurons. The replacement of the piperazine moiety of the lead compound 1 with phenyl ring showed quite enhanced antagonistic activity. Among the prepared derivatives, N-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-4- pyridine-2-yl-benzamide (2, IC50= 31nM) and N-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-4-(3-methylpyridine-2 ...
[Lawson Daku, Kokovi M.; Newton, Roger F.; Pearce, Simon P.; Vile, Julia; Williams, Jonathan M. J. Tetrahedron Letters, 2003 , vol. 44, # 27 p. 5095 - 5098]