MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, cilt.19, sa.3, ss.211-219, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
Three-dimensional pharmacophore hypotheses were built from a set of seven antidiabetic agents. Among the ten commonly featured models generated by program Catalyst/HipHop, a hypothesis including four hydrogen-bond acceptors (HBAs) and two hydrophobic aromatics (HpArs) features was considered to be important in evaluating the hypoglycemic activity. The most active 3-ethyl-5-[3'-(4H-4-oxo-1-benzopyran-2-yl)benzylidene]-2,4-thiazolidinedione (4b) mapped well onto all the HBAs and HpArs features of the hypothesis.