JWH-146

JWH-146
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Identifiers
  • (1-heptyl-5-phenyl-1H-pyrrol-3-yl)-1-naphthalenyl-methanone
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Chemical and physical data
FormulaC28H29NO
Molar mass395.546 g·mol−1
3D model (JSmol)
  • O=C(C1=CC=CC2=C1C=CC=C2)C3=CN(CCCCCCC)C(C4=CC=CC=C4)=C3
  • InChI=1S/C28H29NO/c1-2-3-4-5-11-19-29-21-24(20-27(29)23-14-7-6-8-15-23)28(30)26-18-12-16-22-13-9-10-17-25(22)26/h6-10,12-18,20-21H,2-5,11,19H2,1H3 checkY
  • Key:JDBFNFBWXVCTSA-UHFFFAOYSA-N checkY

JWH-146 (1-heptyl-5-phenyl-1H-pyrrol-3-yl)-1-naphthalenyl-methanone) is a synthetic cannabinoid from the naphthoylpyrrole family which acts as an agonist of the CB1 (Ki = 21 ± 2nM) and CB2 (Ki = 62 ± 5nM) receptors, with a moderate (~2.9x) selectivity for the CB1 receptor over the CB2 receptor. JWH-146 was first synthesized in 2006 by John W. Huffman and colleagues to examine the nature of ligand binding to the CB1 receptor.[1]

  1. ^ Huffman JW, Padgett LW, Isherwood ML, Wiley JL, Martin BR (October 2006). "1-Alkyl-2-aryl-4-(1-naphthoyl)pyrroles: new high affinity ligands for the cannabinoid CB1 and CB2 receptors". Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 16 (20): 5432–5. doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2006.07.051. PMID 16889960.