SCH-50971

SCH-50971
Clinical data
Other names	Sch-50971
Routes of; administration	Oral
Drug class	Histamine H3 receptor agonist
ATC code	None;
Identifiers
	IUPAC name 5-[(3R,4R)-4-methylpyrrolidin-3-yl]-1H-imidazole;
PubChem CID	9815232;
ChemSpider	7990982;
ChEMBL	ChEMBL313127;
Chemical and physical data
Formula	C8H13N3
Molar mass	151.213 g·mol−1
3D model (JSmol)	Interactive image;
	SMILES C[C@H]1CNC[C@@H]1C2=CN=CN2;
	InChI InChI=1S/C8H13N3/c1-6-2-9-3-7(6)8-4-10-5-11-8/h4-7,9H,2-3H2,1H3,(H,10,11)/t6-,7-/m0/s1; Key:KTEPQLOOQDLKHF-BQBZGAKWSA-N;

SCH-50971 is a histamine H₃ receptor agonist which was under development for the treatment of anxiety disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, and migraine but was never marketed.^[2]^[3]

Quick facts Clinical data, Other names ...

The drug acts as a potent, selective, and high-affinity agonist of the histamine H₃ receptor.^[4]^[5] It has negligible affinity for the histamine H₁ receptor and other assessed receptors.^[4] The drug is also not a histamine H₂ receptor antagonist.^[4] It has greatly improved selectivity compared to the earlier selective histamine H₃ receptor agonist (R)-α-methylhistamine.^[4]^[5] The drug is orally active and shows anti-allergy effects, antimigraine effects, sedative and hypnotic effects, and hypolocomotion in animals.^[6]^[7]^[1] In terms of chemical structure, it is a cyclized pyrrolidine derivative of histamine.^[8]^[4]

SCH-50971 was under development by Schering-Plough.^[2] It reached the discovery or preclinical research stage of development.^[3] The development of the drug was discontinued by 2001.^[2] SCH-50971 was first described in the scientific literature by 1994.^[9]^[10]

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