Oxygen Attached Indirectly To The Cyano Group By Nonionic Bonding Patents (Class 558/423)
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Patent number: 5116987Abstract: The invention describes a method of synthesizing a compound of the formula ##STR1## in which X=O or NR,Z=an electron-attracting group,R=H, CN or NO.sub.2,R.sub.1 +R.sub.2 +N--C.dbd.X=a 5-membered or 6-membered heterocycle, andR.sub.3 =H, R.sub.4 =OH or R.sub.3 +R.sub.4 =a bond,said method involving intermediates of the formula ##STR2## in which R.sub.5 =H, Br or N(R.sub.1)CXR.sub.2. This method of synthesis does not involve the epoxide derivative of the chroman.The novel compounds of formula (IX) form a further subject of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 1991Date of Patent: May 26, 1992Assignee: SanofiInventors: Georges Garcia, Daniel Mettefeu, Richard Roux
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Patent number: 5105021Abstract: A higher yield of the difluorohalomethoxybenzene produced by the reaction of a metal phenolate with dibromodifluoromethane or bromochlorodifluoromethane can be obtained by conducting the addition of a metal alcoholate or a metal hydride as a reaction initiator to a solution or a suspension of an aprotic polar solvent containing the metal phenolate and dibromodifluoromethane or bromochlorodifluoromethane.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 1990Date of Patent: April 14, 1992Assignee: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, IncorporatedInventors: Hideyuki Akieda, Naoki Sato, Koichi Morinaga, Yoshinori Ide, Ryuichi Mita, Mitsumasa Umemoto
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Patent number: 5100460Abstract: Herbicides of formula: ##STR1## in which: n=0,1, 2f=0,1A is chosen from the groups ##STR2## in which: Ar is chosen from the groups ##STR3## B is chosen from optionally substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl and C.sub.3 -C.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1989Date of Patent: March 31, 1992Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc AgrochimieInventors: Philippe Desbordes, Michel Euvrard
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Patent number: 5093514Abstract: A process for dehydrating compounds of the formula ##STR1## where --R is --CH.dbd.CH.sub.2, --C.tbd.CH --C.tbd.N or ##STR2## in an aqueous solution thereof is disclosed. In the case where R is --CH.dbd.CH.sub.2 or --C.dbd.CH, the temperature is preferably at least 50.degree. C. and preferably 75.degree. to 100.degree. C. The base is at least 0.1N and preferably 1.0 to 8N. Preferred bases are NaOH, KOH and C.sub.5 OH. In the case where --R is C.tbd.N, the temperature preferably is 20.degree. to 50.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1990Date of Patent: March 3, 1992Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Alan D. Grund, Ronald J. Huss, Michael H. Reimer
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Patent number: 5087743Abstract: Diphenylheteroalkyl derivatives of the formula I ##STR1## where A and R.sup.1 -R.sup.6 have the meanings specified in the description, and the preparation thereof are described.The substances are suitable for controlling diseases and as cosmetic agents.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1990Date of Patent: February 11, 1992Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernd Janssen, Hans-Heiner Wuest
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Patent number: 5084478Abstract: A compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein X has the formula --CR.sup.5 .dbd.CR.sup.6 --, --C.tbd.C-- or ##STR2## wherein ring A is phenyl, naphthyl or heterocyclic; wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, alkyl, alkanoyl or aroyl;wherein R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, each is an electron withdrawing substituent or each is hydrogen or alkyl, alkoxy or dialkylamino, provided that when ring A is phenyl or naphthyl at least one of R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 is an electron-withdrawing substituent;wherein R.sup.5 and R.sup.6, each is hydrogen, halogeno or alkylwherein R.sup.7 is alkyl or halogenoalkyl; and wherein R.sup.8 has the formula --Y--Q--R.sup.9 wherein Y is straight- or branched-chain alkylene or alkenylene; wherein Q is --O--, --S--, --SO-- or --SO.sub.2 --;and wherein R.sup.9 is alkyl of up to 6 carbon atoms which contains one or more defined substituents, processes for their manufacture and pharmaceutical compositions containing them.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1989Date of Patent: January 28, 1992Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLCInventors: Leslie R. Hughes, Howard Tucker
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Patent number: 5068389Abstract: The invention relates to tertiary alcohols of the formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, A.sup.1, Z.sup.1, m, A.sup.2, Y, Q.sup.1, Q.sup.2, Q.sup.3 and Z.sup.2 have the meanings indicated in claim 1, and also to a process for the preparation of these compounds.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1990Date of Patent: November 26, 1991Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter HaftungInventors: Andreas Wachtler, Rudolf Eidenschink, Joachim Krause, Hans-Adolf Kurmeier
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Patent number: 5066822Abstract: Novel compounds which are 2,6-di-t-butylphenols substituted in the 4 position by an alkoxy or benzyloxy group or a benzylthio group, which alkoxy or benzyloxy group is directly substituted by a tetrazole ring, and which benzylthio group is directly substituted by carboxy or tetrazolyl are useful as inhibitors of leukotriene biosynthesis and as antiallergic agents. Synthetic intermediates for preparing such compounds are also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1990Date of Patent: November 19, 1991Assignee: Riker Laboratories, IncInventor: Mark A. Rustad
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Patent number: 5043450Abstract: Quinolonecarboxylic acid derivatives of the following formula, ##STR1## wherein R indicates a hydrogen atom or lower alkyl group, R.sup.1 indicates a lower alkyl group, R.sup.2 indicates a hydrogen atom, amino group or nitro group, X indicates a halogen atom, and Z indicates a halogen atom, piperazino group, N-methylpiperazino group, 3-methylpiperazino group, 3-hydroxypyrrolidino group, or pyrrolidino group of the following formula, ##STR2## (here, n is 0 or 1, R.sup.3 indicates a hydrogen atom or lower alkyl group, R.sup.4 indicates a hydrogen atom, lower alkyl group or substituted lower alkyl group and R.sup.5 indicates a hydrogen atom, lower alkyl group, acyl group or alkoxycarbonyl group), the hydrates and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are useful as antibacterial agents.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1990Date of Patent: August 27, 1991Assignee: Kyorin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kuniyoshi Masuzawa, Seigo Suzue, Keiji Hirai, Takayoshi Ishizaki
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Patent number: 5041604Abstract: A process for producing a high quality di(aryloxy)alkane with a high yield by the use of readily commercially available materials, without using any particular solvent or agent and by means of a simple operation and a general apparatus is provided, which process comprises subjecting a halogenated alkane of the formula (II)X--A--Y (II)wherein X and Y each represent a halogen atom and A represents a lower alkylene group, and a phenol of the formula (III) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 to R.sub.5 each are same or different, represent hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, carboxylic acid salt, acyl or nitro group, and may form a ring in conjunction of two adjacent groups,to condensation reaction in the presence of an alkali in an aqueous medium to form a di(aryloxy)alkane of the formula (I) ##STR2## and is characterized (i) by carrying out the condensation reaction in a molar ratio of the compound of the formula (II): the phenol of the formula (III): the alkali in terms of monovalent base of 1:1.5 to 3.0:1.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1990Date of Patent: August 20, 1991Assignee: Sanko Kaihatsu Kagaku KenkyushoInventors: Toranosuke Saito, Masakatu Kitani, Takashi Ishibashi
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Patent number: 5026726Abstract: A compound of the chemical formula ##STR1## wherein n is 1 or 2, X is NH and O, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are H, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.12) alkyl, (C.sub.2 -C.sub.12)alkenyl, (C.sub.2 -C.sub.12)alkynyl, (C.sub.2 -C.sub.12)acyl, (C.sub.6 -C.sub.12)aryl or (C.sub.7 -C.sub.21)alkylaryl, salts thereof and a composition thereof. In vivo and in vitro methods of inhibiting the growth of a virus relying on the effect of the above compound. In vitro and in vivo methods of inhibiting the growth of the HIV-1 virus comprising administering a compound of the formula ##STR2## wherein n is 1 or 2, X is NH or O, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently of one another H, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.12)alkyl, (C.sub.2 -C.sub.12)alkenyl, (C.sub.2 -C.sub.12)alkynyl, (C.sub.2 -C.sub.12)acyl, (C.sub.6 -C.sub.12)aryl or (C.sub.7 -C.sub.21)alkylaryl, R.sup.3 is C.dbd.N or COR.sup.5, wherein R.sup.5 is selected from the group consisting of H, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.12) alkyl, alenyl or alkynyl, HO, NH.sub.2 and (C.sub.2 -C.sub.12) alkoxy, and R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1989Date of Patent: June 25, 1991Assignee: The University of New MexicoInventors: David L. Jagt, Robert E. Royer
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Patent number: 5017721Abstract: A new process for preparing oxalyl- and oxamyl-hydrazides which comprises contacting oxamide or diacetyloxamide with the corresponding hydrazine derivative of formulaR.sub.1 R.sub.2 N--NHR.sub.3wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, or aryl-alkyl group, R.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 taken together with the adjacent nitrogen atom represent a saturated heterocyclic ring, and R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1989Date of Patent: May 21, 1991Assignee: Enichim ANIC S.p.A.Inventors: Giuseppe Messina, Loreno Lorenzoni, Paolo Calaresu, Giovanni M. Sechi
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Patent number: 5002960Abstract: Compounds of the formulas: ##STR1## wherein Het is an oxazole or oxazine moiety; X is O, S or SO, n is an integer from 3 to 9, Y is an aliphatic bridge; and the various R groups represent hydrogen or various substituents as described herein, are useful as antiviral agents, especially against picornaviruses. N-(Chloroalkyl)amide intermediates for the compounds of Formula I are also active as antiviral agents. Related compounds outside the scope of the above formulas are also disclosed. Also disclosed are novel intermediates, N-halo-alkyl-4-(isoxazol-5-yl)alkoxybenzamides, also useful as antiviral agents.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1989Date of Patent: March 26, 1991Assignee: Sterling Drug, Inc.Inventor: Guy D. Diana
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Patent number: 5003101Abstract: X is hydrogen, halogen, cyano, nitro, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy, substituted or unsubstituted haloalkyl,n is 1, 2, 3 or 4,Y is substituted or unsubstituted alkylene, alkenylene, alkynylene, O, S(O), unsubstituted or alkyl-substituted N, oxycarbonyl, carbonyloxy, carbonyloxyalkylene, oxycarbonylalkylene, oxyalkylene, thioalkylene, azo, carbonylamino, aminocarbonyl, ##STR2## methylenoxy or methylenethio and Z is hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, aralkyl, aralkenyl, aralkoxy, aryloxy, aryloxyalkyl, hetaryl, alkoxy, alkoxyalkyl, alkylthio, or haloalkyl, these radicals being unsubstituted or substituted by halogen, cyano, nitro, alkyl, alkenyl, haloalkenyl, alkoxy, haloalkyl, alkoxycarbonyl or unsubstituted or substituted phenyl,and fungicides containing these compounds.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1989Date of Patent: March 26, 1991Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Siegbert Brand, Franz Schuetz, Bernd Wenderoth, Hubert Sauter, Eberhard Ammermann, Gissela Lorenz
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Patent number: 5001256Abstract: Novel trisubstituted benzoic acid intermediates which are useful in the preparation of certain herbicidal 2-(2,3,4-trisubstituted benzoyl)-1,3-cyclohexanediones are described.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1989Date of Patent: March 19, 1991Assignee: ICI Americas Inc.Inventors: William J. Michaely, Jeff K. Curtis
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Patent number: 5001266Abstract: Novel aniline compounds that are useful in preparing N-aroyl N'-phenyl ureas having alkyl substituents in the 2-, 3-, 5- and 6-positions and haloalkoxy in the 4-position of the N'-phenyl which are more active and have a broader spectrum of effectiveness than the known benzoylurea insecticides.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1988Date of Patent: March 19, 1991Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventors: Raymond H. Rigterink, Barat Bisabri-Ershadi
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Patent number: 4999448Abstract: A method of preparing a compound of Formula XII ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 together represent the fragment --Ch.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --;each R.sup.4 independently represents C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl optionally substituted with 1 to 2 C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy groups; andX, X', Y, Y', Z, and Z' each, independently represent H, F, Cl, Br, I, CN, NO.sub.2, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, phenoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylthio, phenylthio, or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 dialkylamino, wherein each alkyl, alkoxy, and alkylthio group is optionally substituted with one or more compatible groups selected from C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylthio, F, Cl, Br, CN, and phenyl and wherein each phenyl group is optionally substituted with up to 3 groups selected from F, Cl, Br, CN, CF.sub.3, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, and C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 1990Date of Patent: March 12, 1991Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventors: Michael G. Smith, James M. Renga, Brian K. Riley, Patricia G. Ray, Charles Marlowe
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Patent number: 4999429Abstract: Aryl difluoromethyl sulfone adds to aldehydes under phase transfer conditions to give novel substituted alcohols of the general formulaRCH(OH)CF.sub.2 SO.sub.2 Ar (I)wherein R is an aryl, cycloaliphatic, sec- or tert-aliphatic, or heterocyclic group and Ar is an aryl group. The substituted alcohols of formula I are of particular utility as intermediates in the synthesis of a variety of useful end products. For example, the products of formula I may be utilized in desulfonylation reactions, oxidation reactions and fluorination reactions.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1989Date of Patent: March 12, 1991Assignee: Ethyl CorporationInventor: G. Patrick Stahly
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Patent number: 4996347Abstract: The present invention relates, by way of novel industrial products, to osides selected from the group consisting of:(i) the .beta.-.eta.-phenylthioxylosides of the formula: ##STR1## in which: R represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group or a cyano group,A represents the sulfur atom or the oxygen atom,B represents a CH.sub.2, CHOH or CO group andY represents the hydrogen atom or an acyl group; and(ii) epimers thereof when B is CHOH.These products are useful in therapy as antithrombotics.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1989Date of Patent: February 26, 1991Assignee: Fournier Innovation et SynergieInventors: Soth Samreth, Francois Bellamy, Jean Millet
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Patent number: 4978769Abstract: Aromatic, ring-fluorinated compounds are particularly advantageously prepared by nucleophilic exchange in the course of reaction wih potassium fluoride in the presence of phase transfer catalysts and, if desired, solvents by carrying out the reaction in the additional presence of metal salts.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1989Date of Patent: December 18, 1990Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ernst Kysela, Rudolf Braden
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Patent number: 4971995Abstract: Pharmaceutical or veterinary preparations containing (a) at least one compound with the formula: ##STR1## where:R.sub.o represents a C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 alkyl group or a benzyl group with the formula: ##STR2##in which R.sub.3 =H, a halogen, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, CF.sub.3, NO.sub.2 or a CN group; andR.sub.2 represents:a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy group, in which case the pair (X, R.sub.1)=(O, OH), (O, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy), (CHOH, H), (O, H), (CH.sub.2, H) or (CO, H);and OH group, in which case the pair (X, R.sub.1)=(O, OH), (O, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy), (O, H) or (CH.sub.2, H), with the reservation that when (X, R.sub.1)=(O, OH), R.sub.o is different from a C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 alkyl or a benzyl group; ora CN or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl-NH group, in which case the pair (X, R.sub.1)=(O, H) or (CH.sub.2, H), together with (b) a carrier or vehicle which is physiologically acceptable and appropriate for the compound used.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1989Date of Patent: November 20, 1990Assignee: Delande S.A.Inventors: Alain R. Schoofs, Michel Langlois, Christian R. Jeanpetit, Maryse F. Masson
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Patent number: 4966726Abstract: The new compounds produced from a molecular structural element with two chirality centers and at least one mesogenic structural element are defined by the general formula (I) ##STR1## in which the symbols have the following meaning: Y.sup.1 =H, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.10)alkyl, MC--CH.sub.2 or MC--CO, MC denoting the molecular radical of a mesogenic carboxylic acid after splitting off a COOH group,Y.sup.2 =(C.sub.1 -C.sub.10)alkyl, MC--CH.sub.2 or MC--CO, it being possible for Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.2 to jointly represent a MC--CH group, which is then part of a dioxolane ring,X=COOR.sup.1, CONH.sub.2, CONR.sup.2 R.sup.3 or C.tbd.N,R.sup.1 =(C.sub.1 -C.sub.10)alkyl or MC--CH.sub.2, andR.sup.2, R.sup.3 =H and (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4)alkyl or, independently of each other, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4)alkyl.Said esters preferably find application as dopants in twistable liquid crystal phases in which they produce temperature compensation and twisting.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1988Date of Patent: October 30, 1990Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Gunter Scherowsky, Manel Gunaratne
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Patent number: 4960950Abstract: Disclosed is a novel process for effecting an ether interchange reaction by heating together in the presence of a basic catalyst, a nitroaromatic ether or thioether and an organic compound containing at least one hydroxyl or mercapto group. The novelty resides particularly in carrying out the interchange in an inert solvent while sparging the heated reactants thereby to remove at least a portion of solvent along with an evolving alcohol or thiol.The process is particularly adapted to the capping of organic polyols with nitroaromatic ether groups. The capped products are useful as intermediates for the preparation of high molecular weight polyamines which in turn find utility in various polymer applications.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1988Date of Patent: October 2, 1990Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventor: Visweswara R. Durvasula
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Patent number: 4956488Abstract: The present invention discloses an optically active cyanobiphenyl compound represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein, R is ##STR2## X is hydrogen atom or chlorine atom: when X is hydrogen atom, R.sub.1 is normal alkyl having from 1 to 11 carbon atoms and when X is chlorine atom, R.sub.1 is hydrogen atom or normal alkyl having from 1 to 11 carbon atoms; n is 3 to 5; Y is --CH.sub.2 --or --CO--; and * represents an asymmetric carbon atom.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1988Date of Patent: September 11, 1990Assignee: Adeka Argus Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiro Shibata, Masaki Kimura
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Patent number: 4950802Abstract: A novel method for the preparation of aryl trifluoromethyl ethers which comprises reacting a phenol, a perhalomethane, and an antimony pentahalide. For example, 4-nitrophenol may be reacted with an excess over stoichiometry of both carbon tetrachloride and antimony trifluoride with a catalytic amount of antimony pentachloride to form 4-nitrophenyl trifluoromethyl ether.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1988Date of Patent: August 21, 1990Assignee: The Dow Chemical CompanyInventor: Bassam S. Nader
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Patent number: 4946865Abstract: A compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl group or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkoxy group and Y is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, a formyl group, an ethylene-dioxymethyl group, a hydroxyl group, a hydroxymethyl group or a group of either one of the formulas: --CH.dbd.N--OR.sup.1, --COOR.sup.2, --CONH--R.sup.2 and --CH(OR.sup.3).sub.2 in which R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl group, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 alkenyl group, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 alkynyl group, a halo(C.sub.3 -C.sub.5)alkynyl group or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl group substituted with a phenyl group or a cyano group, R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl group, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 alkenyl group or a C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 alkynyl group and R.sup.3 is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 1986Date of Patent: August 7, 1990Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, LimitedInventors: Junya Takahashi, Shigeko Nakamura
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Patent number: 4931209Abstract: A new family of liquid crystalline or potential liquid crystalline compounds is made relatively cheaply generally by reducing an acid chlorine derivative alkyl or alkoxy benzene or its analogues of an alkyl cyclohexanoic acid to an alkanol derivative, converting the alkanol derivative to a halide such as the bromide or chloride and reacting said halide with a cyano phenol, cyanodiphenol and related compound to form a compound having the formula of equation 1.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1986Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignee: Crystaloid Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Ferrato, Julie C. Ferrato
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Patent number: 4925590Abstract: Derivatives of 4-cyano-2,3-difluorophenol of the formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is an alkyl group which has 1-12 C atoms and in which one or two CH.sub.2 groups can also be replaced by --O--, --CO--, --CO--O-- and/or --CH.dbd.CH--, no two 0 atoms being directly attached to one another,A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 independently of one another are each 1,4-phenylene which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or two F atoms, and in which one or two CH groups can also be replaced by N, or trans-1,4-cyclohexylene in which one or two non-adjacent CH.sub.2 groups can also be replaced by 0 atoms and/or S atoms,Z is --CO--O--, --O--CO--, --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --, OCH.sub.2 --, --CH.sub.2 O, --C.tbd.C-- or a single bond,m is 0, 1 or 2 andQ is --CO-- or --CH.sub.2 --.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1989Date of Patent: May 15, 1990Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter HaftungInventors: Volker Reiffenrath, Joachim Krause, Andreas Wachtler, Georg Weber, Ulrich Finkenzeller
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Patent number: 4914244Abstract: Difluorochloromethoxybenzenes are prepared by reacting phenols with trichloromethyl chloroformate (=di-phosgene) in the presence of hydrogen fluoride.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 1987Date of Patent: April 3, 1990Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Albrecht Marhold
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Patent number: 4913838Abstract: An optically active liquid crystal compound having specific features suitable to a display mode utilizing ferroelectric chiral smectic phases and particularly having a large spontaneous polarization value, and a chiral liquid crystal composition containing the compound are provided, which compound is expressed by the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group of 2 to 18 carbon atoms; R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group or alkoxy group each of 1 to 20 carbon atoms, hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or cyano group; A represents --COO-- or --OCO--; B and C each represent a single bond, ##STR2## wherein X represents hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or cyano group; and l, m and n each represent 0 or 1.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1988Date of Patent: April 3, 1990Assignee: Chisso CorporationInventors: Kazutoshi Miyazawa, Takashi Inukai, Hiromichi Inoue, Shinichi Saito, Kouji Ohno
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Patent number: 4908388Abstract: Derivatives of carbonyl-group containing behavior modifying compounds, in which said carbonyl group has been converted to a photolabile group which regenerates the carbonyl group on exposure to radiation, are of value in various methods for the control of animal, and in particular insect, species.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 1988Date of Patent: March 13, 1990Assignee: National Research Development CorporationInventors: John A. Pickett, Ewen D. M. Macaulay
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Patent number: 4892963Abstract: Compounds of the following formula have pharmaceutical properties: ##STR1## in which X is R.sup.1 (HO)C.dbd.C(CN)--, R.sup.1 (CO)--CH(CN)-- or ##STR2## R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each hydrogen or C.sub.1-6 alkyl, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are each hydrogen, hydroxy, halogen, nitro, cyano, carboxy, C.sub.1-4 alkyl, C.sub.1-4 alkoxy, C.sub.1-4 alkylthio, halo-substituted C.sub.1-4 alkyl, halo-substituted C.sub.1-4 alkoxy, halo-substituted C.sub.1-4 alkylthio, C.sub.2-5 alkoxycarbonyl, optionally substituted phenyl, optionally substituted phenoxy, R'R"N- where R' and R" are each hydrogen or C.sub.1-4 alkyl R'"CONH-- where R'" is C.sub.1-4 alkyl, R.sup.6, R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 are each C.sub.1-6 alkyl, halo-substituted C.sub.1-6 alkyl or optionally substituted phenyl, or R.sup.6 and R.sup.7, together with the carbon atom to which they are attached, form a cycloalkyl group containing 3 to 7 carbon atoms, or R.sup.6, R.sup.7 and R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1987Date of Patent: January 9, 1990Assignee: Lilly Industries LimitedInventors: Peter T. Gallagher, Terence A. Hicks, Graham W. Mullier
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Patent number: 4886622Abstract: An optically liquid crystalline compound having an extremely large spontaneous polarization value and a chiral smectic liquid crystal composition containing the compound are provided, the compound being expressed by the formula ##STR1## wherein m represents an integer of 2 to 18; l represents an integer of 0 to 12; n represents 0 or 1; R represents an alkyl group or an alkoxy group each of 2 to 20 carbon atoms, a halogen atom or cyano group; and A and B each represent a single bond, ##STR2## wherein X represents hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or cyano group, and a chiral smectic liquid crystal composition containing at least one kind of the above compound.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1987Date of Patent: December 12, 1989Assignee: Chisso CorporationInventors: Kazutoshi Miyazawa, Takashi Inukai, Hiromichi Inoue, Shinichi Saito, Kouji Ohno
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Patent number: 4886891Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing a 1,1-disubstituted ethylene derivative of the formula ##STR1## which comprises reacting lead with a carbinol derivative of the formula ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, X, Y, m and n are defined in the specification. The reaction is conducted more advantageously in the presence of a metal having higher ionization tendency than lead.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1987Date of Patent: December 12, 1989Assignee: Otsuka Kagaku Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeru Torii, Masatoshi Taniguchi, Michio Sasaoka, Yoshihisa Tomotaki, Mitsuo Akada, Hideo Tanaka, Akira Suzuki, Shiro Yamashita
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Patent number: 4879061Abstract: A method of making liquid crystalline compounds of the formula ##STR1## where A represents a cyclohexane ring, n has values of 1, 2 or 3, R1 is an alkyl radical, R2 is an alkyl, alkoxy, or alkylcyclohexyl or cyanide radical, and X1 is lower alkyl and X2, X3 and X4 is alkyl and preferably methyl, ethyl or propyl, hydrogen, halogen and preferably fluorine or cyanide and to the compound.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1986Date of Patent: November 7, 1989Assignee: Crystaloid Electronics Co.Inventors: Joseph P. Ferrato, Julie C. Ferrato
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Patent number: 4876376Abstract: A process for the halogenation (bromination or chlorination)/nitration/fluorination of aromatic derivatives substituted by at least one group containing a halogenoalkyl unit. The aromatic derivative is reacted with a halogen and a nitrating agent in liquid hydrofluoric acid. The products obtained are useful as intermediates for the synthesis of compounds having a plant-protecting or pharmaceutical activity.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1987Date of Patent: October 24, 1989Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Specialistes ChimiquesInventors: Michael Desbois, Camille Disdier
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Patent number: 4873329Abstract: A compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein X has the formula ##STR2## wherein ring A is phenyl, naphthyl or heterocyclic; wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, alkyl, alkanoyl or aroyl; wherein R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, each is an electron withdrawing substituent selected from halogeno, nitro, cyano, trifluoromethyl, alkylthio, alkylsulphinyl and alkylsulphonyl or each is hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy or dialkylamino provided that when ring A is phenyl or naphthyl at least one of R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 is an electron-withdrawing substituent; wherein R.sup.5 and R.sup.6, which may be the same or different, each is hydrogen, halogeno or alkyl; wherein R.sup.7 is alkyl or halogenoalkyl; and wherein R.sup.8 is carbamoyl, alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, halogenoalkyl, halogenoalkenyl, halogenoalkynyl, alkanoyl, alkylcarbamoyl, dialkylcarbamoyl or aroyl; or wherein R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1985Date of Patent: October 10, 1989Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLCInventors: Leslie R. Hughes, John Oldfield, Howard Tucker
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Patent number: 4871470Abstract: Cyclohexane derivatives of formula I ##STR1## wherein R is an alkyl group which has 1-12 C atoms and in which one or two non-adjacent CH.sub.2 groups can also be replaced by O, --CO--O-- or --OCO--,A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 each independently of one another are trans-1,4-cyclohexylene or unsubstituted or fluorine-substituted 1,4-phenylene, and one of the groups A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 can also be a single bond,X is --CN, halogen, OH, --COOR.sup.1, --OOCR.sup.1, --COR.sup.1, --OR.sup.1 or R.sup.1 andR.sup.1 is an alkyl group which has 1-12 C atoms and in which one or two CH.sub.2 groups can also be replaced by O, but excluding direct links between two O atoms,with the proviso that, in the case of X=CN, A.sup.2 is trans-1,4-cyclohexylene or fluorine-substituted, 1,4-phenylene, are suitable as components of liquid-crystalline phases.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1987Date of Patent: October 3, 1989Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit Beschrankter HaftungInventors: Andreas Wachtler, Joachim Krause, Rudolf Eidenschink, Georg Weber
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Patent number: 4867904Abstract: Bicyclooctane derivatives of the Formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, A.sup.1, A.sup.2 and Z have the meanings indicated in claim 1, are suitable for use as components of liquid-crystal phases for field effect and/or bistability effect displays.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1987Date of Patent: September 19, 1989Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit Beschrankter HaftungInventors: Joachim Krause, Volker Reiffenrath, Bernhard Scheuble, Georg Weber
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Patent number: 4857539Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein: Y is an alkylene bridge of 3-9 carbon atoms;Z is N or HC;R is hydrogen or lower-alkyl of 1-5 carbon atoms, with the proviso that when Z is N, R is lower-alkyl;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are hydrogen, halogen, lower-alkyl, lower-alkoxy, nitro, lower-alkoxycarbonyl or trifluoromethyl; andHet is selected from specified heterocyclic groups,are useful and antiviral agents, particularly against picornaviruses, including numerous strains of rhinovirus.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1987Date of Patent: August 15, 1989Assignee: Sterling Drug Inc.Inventors: Guy D. Diana, Philip M. Carabateas
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Patent number: 4845119Abstract: A compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein X has the formula --CR.sup.5 .dbd.CR.sup.6 --, --C.tbd.C-- or ##STR2## wherein ring A is phenyl, naphthyl or heterocyclic; wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, alkyl, alkanoyl or aroyl;wherein R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, each is an electron withdrawing substituent of each is hydrogen or alkyl, alkoxy or dialkylamino, provided that when ring A is phenyl or naphthyl at least one of R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 is an electron-withdrawing substitutent;wherein R.sup.5 and R.sup.6, each is hydrogen, halogeno or alkyl;wherein R.sup.7 is alkyl or halogenoalkyl; and wherein R.sup.8 has the formula --Y--Q--R.sup.9 wherein Y is straight- or branched-chain alkylene or alkenylene; wherein Q is --O--, --S--, --SO-- or --SO.sub.2 --; andwherein R.sup.9 is alkyl or up to 6 carbon atoms which contains one or more defined substituents, processes for their manufacture and pharmaceutical compositions containing them.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1986Date of Patent: July 4, 1989Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries PLCInventors: Leslie R. Hughes, Howard Tucker
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Patent number: 4844836Abstract: The present invention discloses an optically active cyanobiphenyl compound represented by the following formula and nematic liquid crystal composition comprising thereof. ##STR1## wherein, m is 2 or 3; n is 2 when m is 2 and n is one when m is 3; and * represents an asymmetric carbon atom.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1988Date of Patent: July 4, 1989Assignee: Adeka Argus Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiro Shibata, Norio Kurosawa
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Patent number: 4837364Abstract: A process for the preparation of (pentafluoroethoxy)- and (pentafluoroethylthio)benzene derivatives either from phenol, thiophenol or from halobenzene. A halobenzene is reacted with trifluoroethanol or a phenol or a thiophenol is reacted with a compound of the formula CF.sub.3 --CH.sub.2 --O--R'. The product is chlorinated and the chlorinated product is fluorinated in liquid hydrofluoric acid in the presence of a Lewis acid.The compounds obtained by the process of the present invention are used as synthesis intermediates in the phytosanitary, pharmaceutical and veterinary industries, and are used in lubricants.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1986Date of Patent: June 6, 1989Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Specialites ChimiquesInventors: Michel Desbois, Bernard Langlois
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Patent number: 4824989Abstract: A (trifluoromethyl)naphthalene which has been prepared by reacting a halonaphthalene with a trifluoroacetate salt in the presence of cuprous iodide and a dipolar aprotic solvent is recovered by (1) replacing the dipolar aprotic solvent in the final reaction mixture with an alkane containing 6-12 carbons, (2) heating the resultant slurry to a temperature sufficient to dissolve the organic ingredients, (3) allowing the inorganic ingredients of the slurry to settle, (4) decanting the organic layer, and (5) cooling to precipitate the (trifluoromethyl)naphthalene.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1987Date of Patent: April 25, 1989Assignee: Ethyl CorporationInventor: Gary D. Heidebrecht
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Patent number: 4824988Abstract: In a process for preparing a (trifluoromethyl)napthalene by reacting a halonapthalene with a trifluoroacetate in the presence of cuprous iodide and a dipolar aprotic solvent and separating out the inorganic ingredients of the final reaction mixture in the recovery of the product, the cuprous iodide is recovered by washing the separated inorganic ingredients with an alcohol and a carboxylic acid and then with water to purify the cuprous iodide.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1987Date of Patent: April 25, 1989Assignee: Ethyl CorporationInventors: Ronny W. Lin, Venkataraman Ramachandran
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Patent number: 4785131Abstract: 6-Alkoxy-5-halo-1-cyanonaphthalenes, useful as pharmaceutical intermediates, are prepared by (1) reacting a 6-alkoxytetralone with cyanide ion and a Lewis acid in a nitroalkane or nitroarene solvent to form a 6-alkoxy-1-cyano-3,4-dihydronaphthalene, (2) intimately mixing the resultant solution with an aqueous base selected from alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, and tetraalkylammonium hydroxides, alkoxides, carbonates, and bicarbonates to aromatize the 6-alkoxy-1-cyano-3,4-dihydronaphthalene, and (3) halogenating the resultant 6-alkoxy-1-cyanonaphthalene while still in the nitroalkane or nitroarene solvent.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1987Date of Patent: November 15, 1988Assignee: Ethyl CorporationInventor: Venkataraman Ramachandran
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Patent number: 4767879Abstract: The invention concerns novel compounds of the formula I ##STR1## wherein: X is selected from halogen, nitro, cyano, alkyl, substituted alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, substituted alkoxy, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkenyloxy, alkynyloxy, acyloxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylthio, alkylsulfinyl, alkylsulfonyl, sulfamoyl, substituted sulfamoyl, amino, substituted amino, and the groups formyl and alkanoyl and the oxime, imine and Schiff base derivatives thereof;R.sup.1 is selected from hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, substituted alkyl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, acyl and an inorganic or organic cation;R.sup.2 is selected from alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, haloalkenyl, alkynyl and haloalkynyl;R.sup.3 is selected from alkyl, fluoroalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, and phenyl;m is an integer chosen from 3 to 5.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1986Date of Patent: August 30, 1988Assignee: ICI Australia LimitedInventors: Keith G. Watson, Lynette A. Garson, Graham J. Bird, Lindsay E. Cross, Graeme J. Farquharson
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Patent number: 4766243Abstract: A process for the electrophilic ring fluorination of aromatic compounds which comprises reacting a fluorinating agent from the group consisting of CF.sub.3 OF and CF.sub.2 (OF).sub.2 with an aromatic compound of the formula ##STR1## where X is selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## and ##STR3## and Y is selected from the group consisting of --H, --CF.sub.3, --CN, --NO.sub.2, --Cl, and CH.sub.3.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1984Date of Patent: August 23, 1988Assignee: Occidental Chemical CorporationInventor: Michael J. Fifolt
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Patent number: 4764635Abstract: A hydroaromatic compound is aromatized by heating it at about 100.degree.-300.degree. C. in the presence of a hydrogen acceptor. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the hydroaromatic compound is a dihydronaphthalene bearing an electron-withdrawing substitutent, e.g., a cyanodihydronaphthalene.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1986Date of Patent: August 16, 1988Assignee: Ethyl CorporationInventors: Venkataraman Ramachandran, David M. Mohr
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Patent number: 4762943Abstract: A dihydroaromatic compound is aromatized by intimately contacting it with a base selected from alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, and tetraalkylammonium hydroxides, alkoxides, carbonates, and bicarbonates in the presence of a hydrogen acceptor. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the dihydroaromatic compound is a dihydronaphthalene bearing an electron-withdrawing substituent, e.g., a cyanodihydronaphthalene.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1986Date of Patent: August 9, 1988Assignee: Ethyl CorporationInventors: Venkataraman Ramachandran, John R. Maloney