The identification of a unique series of compounds which possesses special
advantages in terms of drug-like properties due to their possessing
advantageous properties in terms of potency and/or pharmacokinetic and/or
selectivity and/or in vivo receptor occupancy properties. Specifically,
the selection of a 1,3-thiazol-2-yl ring member linked by an ethynylene
to the 3 position of a pyridyl ring or the 5 position of a pyrimidinyl
ring, wherein the ring is substituted with selected substituents, results
in a compound having superior drug-like properties. The invention
includes pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms of these heterocyclic
compounds, in particular chloride salts and trifluoroacetate salts.