“…This inhibitor increased the clotting time in the APTT assay by 1.5-fold at a plasma concentration of 5.3 M. Interestingly, removing the chlorine atom from the imidazole moiety led to inhibitor 55, which had a FXIa K i value of 6.7 nM, a volume of distribution of 3.4 L/kg, a clearance value of 20 mL/min/kg, a T 0.5 of 2.4 hr, and an oral bioavailability of ∼10.4% in dogs. This inhibitor increased the clotting time in the APTT assay by 1.5-fold at a plasma concentration of 8.6 M. This inhibitor also demonstrated good selectivity over FVIIa (K i > 13,000 nM), FIXa (K i > 60,000 nM), FXa (K i = 1500 nM), thrombin (K i > 15,000 nM), trypsin (K i > 6200 nM), plasma kallikrein (K i = 240 nM), tissue kallikrein (K i > 30,000 nM), chymotrypsin (K i = 1300 nM), plasmin (K i > 41,000 nM), and tPA (K i = 17,000 nM) 123. Along those lines, Hu et al reported the continued structural optimization efforts at the P1 ′ and P2 ′ regions…”