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The Trifluoromethyl Group as a Bioisosteric Replacement of the Aliphatic Nitro Group in CB1 Receptor Positive Allosteric Modulators (PAMs)
The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications website at DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00252. Experimental procedures, characterization of all intermediates and target compounds, and copies of NMR spectra of compounds 1, 39-57. Molecular formula strings of target compounds are available. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. We gratefully thank Signal Pharma and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Proof of Principle grants PPP-125784 and PP2-139101 for financial support and fellowship (C.C.T), NIH grants R01DA039942, P30DA033934 and VCU School of Pharmacy start-up funds (A.H.L.). We thank the EPSRC National Crystallography Service (University of Southampton) for the X-ray data collection. We are grateful to Dr Monica Sani (CNR-ICRM, Milan, Italy) and Mr Massimo Frigerio (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) for the synthesis of two tetrazole-substituted indoles (Het-1 and Het-2)Peer reviewedPostprin