In organic chemistry, atoms other than carbon and hydrogen are generally referred to as heteroatoms. The most common heteroatoms are nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur. Now I present to you an article called Identification and Structure-Activity Relationship Study of Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-3-amines as First Selective Inhibitors of Excitatory Amino Acid Transporter Subtype 3 (EAAT3), published in 2019-10-16, which mentions a compound: 591-54-8, mainly applied to imidazopyridineamine preparation inhibitor excitatory amino acid transporter subtype EAAT3; EAAT3; EAAT3 inhibitors; Glutamate; excitatory amino acid transporter, Synthetic Route of C4H5N3.
Screening of a library of 49,087 compounds at the excitatory amino acid transporter subtype 3 (EAAT3) led to the identification of 2-(furan-2-yl)-8-methyl-N-(o-tolyl)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-3-amine which showed a >20-fold preference for inhibition of EAAT3 (IC50 = 13 μM) over EAAT1,2,4 (EAAT1: IC50 ∼ 250 μM; EAAT2,4: IC50 > 250 μM). A small lipophilic substituent (Me or bromine) at the 7- and/or 8-position was essential for activity. Furthermore, the substitution pattern of the o-tolyl group (compound I) and the chem. nature of the substituent in the 2-position of tert-Bu 3-(8-bromo-7-methyl-3-(o-tolylamino)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-2-yl)azetidine-1-carboxylate are essential for the selectivity toward EAAT3 over EAAT1,2. The most prominent analogs to come out of this study are 2-(furan-2-yl)-8-methyl-N-(o-tolyl)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-3-amine and 8-Bromo-2-(furan-2-yl)-N-(o-tolyl)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridin-3-amine that display ∼35-fold selectivity for EAAT3 (IC50 = 7.2 μM) over EAAT1,2,4 (IC50 ∼ 250 μM).
There is still a lot of research devoted to this compound(SMILES：C1=CN=CN=C1N)Synthetic Route of C4H5N3, and with the development of science, more effects of this compound(591-54-8) can be discovered.