Aldehyde Or Ketone Patents (Class 562/459)
  • Patent number: 4689423
    Abstract: An improved process for the preparation of methyl 2,3,4,5-tetrafluorobenzoylacetate is described. The process is for intermediates that lead to trifluoroquinolinic acids which in turn are used to produce antibacterial agents of the difluoro quinolinecarboxylic acid type. The process runs at room temperature, uses a safe and inexpensive base, and can be conveniently scaled up for manufacturing purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1987
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: Vladimir G. Beylin, Om P. Goel
  • Patent number: 4683331
    Abstract: The invention relates to omega-(2',4'-dihalobiphenylyl)oxo alkanoic acids of Formula: ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each represent a fluorine or chlorine atom and Y represents a bivalent hydrocarbon chain selected from the group consisting of --CH.sub.2 --CH--CH.sub.3 and (CH.sub.2).sub.3, and to a process for their preparation.The compounds of the invention are highly active and longlasting anti-inflammatory agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1987
    Assignee: Spofa spojene podniky pro zdravotnickou
    Inventors: Miroslav Kuchar, Bohumila Brunova, Jaroslava Grimova, Eva Maturova
  • Patent number: 4678496
    Abstract: As new compound is provided a cyclohexane derivative of the formula ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, an alkylthioalkyl group or an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group; and R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted benzyl group, a phenethyl group, a phenoxymethyl group, a 2-thienylmethyl group, an alkoxymethyl group or an alkylthiomethyl group, or a salt of said cyclohexane compound.This cyclohexane compound exhibits useful plant-growth regulating effects on crop-plants and also non-crop plants such as lawn and may be prepared by cyclization of an acetonylsuccinic acid dialkyl ester, followed by reaction with an organic acid chloride and by intermolecular rearrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Assignee: Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Motojima, Takeshige Miyazawa, Yasufumi Toyokawa, Masafumi Matsuzawa, Hiroshi Hokari, Shoji Kusano
  • Patent number: 4673761
    Abstract: Cycloalkylidenemethylphenylacetic acid derivatives of formula (I): ##STR1## (wherein R.sup.1 represents hydrogen or alkyl and n is an integer from 1 to 3) are prepared by reacting a benzaldehyde acid compound of formula (II): ##STR2## with an enamine derivative of formula (III): ##STR3## (wherein R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are various organic groups) and then hydrolizing the product. The use of the acid of formula (II) rather than its corresponding ester enables the reaction to be effected with a good yield and under moderate and economical reaction conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1987
    Assignee: Sankyo Company, Limited
    Inventors: Atsusuke Terada, Kazuyuki Wachi
  • Patent number: 4670585
    Abstract: 2-Carboxydibenzoylmethanes of the following formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently a substituent joined to any position of the benzene nucleus and represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl group having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, or a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated alkoxy group having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, m is an integer of from 1 to 4, and n is an integer of from 1 to 5 are prepared inexpensively with ease in high yield by a novel process characterized by reaction between phthalic anhydrides and acetophenones in the presence of bases.The 2-carboxydibenzoylmethanes are useful as an inhibitor of the root geotropic response of plants or a growth regulator for plants, or a stabilizer for halogen-containing resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Kimihiko Hori, Koichi Nakamura, Naotake Takaishi
  • Patent number: 4654435
    Abstract: A process for the addition reaction of an unsaturated organic compound, except a rubber, having at least one carbon-carbon double bond in a molecule, which comprises reacting the unsaturated organic compound with an organic compound having a carboxyl group and an aldehyde group in the presence of a Lewis acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shizuo Kitahara, Yoshitsugu Hirokawa, Haruki Kawada, Toshihiro Fujii, Nagatoshi Sugi, Hiroaki Hasegawa, Akira Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 4649213
    Abstract: Compounds having anti-inflammatory and analgesic activity of the formula ##STR1## are produced from compounds having the formula ##STR2## by rearrangement in the presence of a base or an amide and (1) X S O X.sup.1 or X S O.sub.2 X.sup.1 where X and X.sup.1 are halogen or trifluoromethyl or (2) sulfur dioxide and halogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Yamauchi, Kaneaki Hattori, Shun-ichi Ikeda, Kenji Nakao, Kentaro Tamaki
  • Patent number: 4622421
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I): ##STR1## (wherein R represents hydrogen or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl group) have analgesic, anti-inflammatory and immuno-regulatory activities. The compounds exist in the form of cis- and trans-isomers with respect to the cyclohexyl ring, as well as a number of optical isomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Sankyo Company Limited
    Inventors: Atsusuke Terada, Shunji Naruto, Yoshio Iizuka
  • Patent number: 4621154
    Abstract: An improved process for preparing 4-(4-biphenylyl)-4-oxo-butanoic acid which is useful as anti-inflammatory and analgesic agents. The process comprises reacting biphenyl with succinic anhydride in chlorobenzene in the presence of anhydrous aluminum chloride. No 4-(4-chlorophenyl)-4-oxo-butanoic acid is produced as by-product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1986
    Assignees: Nisshin Flour Milling Co., Ltd., Nisshin Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruhiko Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4605749
    Abstract: There is provided a process for the production of aldehydes wherein an oric halide is reacted with carbon monoxide at a superatmospheric pressure in the presence of a hydrogen donor and in the presence of a base and of a catalyst in a solvent system.Catalysts of choice are transition metal catalysts. A preferred temperature range is from about 50.degree. to 150.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1986
    Assignee: State of Israel, Prime Minister's Office, Atomic Energy Commission
    Inventors: Ouri Buchman, Ilan Pri-Bar
  • Patent number: 4605758
    Abstract: Pharmaceutically useful optically active .alpha.-arylalkanoic acids or esters, ortho esters, or amides thereof are stereoselectively prepared by contacting an aryl magnesium Grignard reagent with an optically active .alpha.-substituted acyl halide to form the optically active aryl .alpha.-substituted alkyl ketone, which is ketalized and rearranged to the desired optically active .alpha.-arylalkanoic acid or the corresponding ester, ortho ester or amide. In an alternate embodiment, the aryl .alpha.-substituted alkyl ketone is reduced to the corresponding alkanol, which is rearranged to the .alpha.-arylalkanal. The alkanal so produced is converted to the desired optically active .alpha.-arylalkanoic acid by conventional methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1986
    Assignee: Syntex Pharmaceuticals International Ltd.
    Inventor: George C. Schloemer
  • Patent number: 4578522
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of synthesis of certain substituted carboxylic acids useful in lowering serum triglyceride and total cholesterol levels in mammals (including man) represented by the general formula I:Ar.sup.1 --Ar.sup.2 (I)whereinAr.sup.1 is selected from ##STR1## Ar.sup.2 is selected from ##STR2## and R is selected from C.sub.1-5 alkyl, halogen, perhalo-C.sub.1-4 alkyl, C.sub.1-4 alkoxy, phenyl, C.sub.1-4 acyl, C.sub.1-6 alkoxycarbonyl, amino or hydroxy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Inventor: John F. Eaddy, III
  • Patent number: 4578503
    Abstract: An alkylated or alkenylated malonic ester having a fluorine containing aliphatic substituent and derivatives thereof as expressed by the following general formula: ##STR1## where R.sub.f is a fluorine containing aliphatic group, R is an aliphatic group, or hydrogen or alkali metal atom, and R' is an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic group.And a method to trap the enolate ion of a malonic ester having a fluorine containing aliphatic substituent as expressed by the following general formula,R.sub.f CH(CO.sub.2 R).sub.2where R.sub.f is a fluorine containing aliphatic group and R is an aliphatic group, hydrogen or alkali metal atom, wherein said malonic ester is converted under the action of a weaker base and/or fluoride ion to a fluorine containing enolate ion to be trapped as expressed by the following general formula:R.sub.f C.sup..crclbar. (CO.sub.2 R).sub.2where R.sub.f and R are the same as above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Assignee: Daikin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Ishikawa, Takeshi Nakai, Yoshio Inouye
  • Patent number: 4567004
    Abstract: Monomethyl-substituted methylene compounds are obtained by reacting methylene compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently of one another represent --CN, --CO--R.sup.3, --SO.sub.2 --R.sup.3 or --NO.sub.2 andR.sup.1 can additionally denote -aryl(R.sup.1).sub.n,whereinR.sup.3 denotes --OH, alkyl, aralkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aralkoxy or aryloxy, or amino which is substituted by alkyl and/or aralkyl and/or aryl, and furthermoretwo radicals R.sup.3 together can be an alkylene group, the radical of an aliphatic diol or of an aliphatic diamine or the group --NH--CO--NH-- and n represents 1, 2 or 3,with formaldehyde and with hydrogen in the presence of a condensation catalyst and a hydrogenation catalyst at elevated temperature, the methylene compound being introduced into the liquid phase of the mixture of reactants in the course of the reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1986
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinz U. Blank, Erich Wolters
  • Patent number: 4567053
    Abstract: The sweetness of an ingestible product containing a sweetening sugar or sugar alcohol in large quantities can be reduced by incorporating therein a sweetness-reducing amount of at least one compound of the general formula: ##STR1## in which m represents 0 or 1, and when m represents 0, n represents 1, 2 or 3, and p represents 1, 2, 3 or 4, and when m represents 1, n represents 1 or 2 and p represents 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; the substituents R, which may be the same or different, each represent a lower alkoxy group, e.g. with 1 to 5 carbon atoms, phenoxy group or a lower alkyl or trifluoromethyl group; and/or two substituents R together represent an aliphatic chain linked to the phenyl ring at two positions, either directly or via an oxa-group, e.g. an alkylenedioxy, alkenylenedioxy, alkylenoxy or alkenylenoxy group; and/or one substituent R represents a hydroxy group while at least one other substituent R represents an alkoxy group; and X.sup.+ represents a physiologically acceptable cation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1986
    Assignee: Tate & Lyle Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Michael G. Lindley
  • Patent number: 4562204
    Abstract: Trans-.DELTA..sup.2 -prostaglandin D derivatives of the formula: ##STR1## wherein [A] is a group of the formula: ##STR2## X is ethylene or cis-vinylene, C.sub.13 -C.sub.14 -C.sub.15 is: (i) a group of the formula: ##STR3## when [A] is a group of the formula (II) or (III), or (ii) a group of the formula: ##STR4## when [A] is a group of the formula (IV), R is hydrogen or alkyl, R.sup.1 is a single bond or alkylene, R.sup.2 is alkyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl or phenoxy, the double bonds between C.sub.2 -C.sub.3 and between C.sub.13 -C.sub.14 are both E, the double bond between C.sub.9 -C.sub.10 is Z and the double bonds between C.sub.12 -C.sub.13 and between C.sub.14 -C.sub.15 are E, Z or a mixture thereof, provided that when R.sup.1 is a single bond, R.sup.2 does not represent a substituted or unsubstituted phenoxy group, and cyclodextrin clathrates and non-toxic salts thereof, possess anti-tumor activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirohisa Wakatsuka, Takashi Yamato, Shinsuke Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 4562068
    Abstract: This invention relates to a topical cosmetic preparation for treating oily hair or seborrhea which contains a sebosuppressively effective amount of at least one 4-aryl-4-oxo-but-2-enoic acid derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Hinrich Moller, Siegfried Wallat
  • Patent number: 4560403
    Abstract: As new compound is provided a cyclohexane derivative of the formula ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, an alkylthioalkyl group or an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group; and R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted benzyl group, a phenethyl group, a phenoxymethyl group, a 2-thienylmethyl group, an alkoxymethyl group or an alkylthiomethyl group, or a salt of said cyclohexane compound.This cyclohexane compound exhibits useful plant-growth regulating effects on crop-plants and also non-crop plants such as lawn and may be prepared by cyclization of an acetonylsuccinic acid dialkyl ester, followed by reaction with an organic acid chloride and by intermolecular rearrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1985
    Assignees: Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Ihara Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Motojima, Takeshige Miyazawa, Yasufumi Toyokawa, Masafumi Matsuzawa, Hiroshi Hokari, Shoji Kusano
  • Patent number: 4544565
    Abstract: Foodstuffs containing sweetness inhibitors having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.7 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl, R.sub.8 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl and wherein R.sub.9 is the group ##STR2## wherein R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkoxy, C.sub.1 -C.sub.2 hydroxyalkyl, hydroxy and COOH; and the non-toxic salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: General Foods Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald E. Barnett
  • Patent number: 4537906
    Abstract: Substituted phenylalkenoic acids and esters of the formula: ##STR1## having useful pharmaceutical activity are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: Merck Frosst Canada, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrice C. Belanger, John W. Gillard
  • Patent number: 4536515
    Abstract: Substituted phenylalkenoic acids and esters of the formula: ##STR1## having useful pharmaceutical activity are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: Merck Frosst Canada, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrice C. Belanger, John W. Gillard
  • Patent number: 4518800
    Abstract: The invention concerns a process for preparation of crystallized monohydrated sodium phenylpyruvate comprising: hot reacting benzaldehyde in an aqueous medium in the presence of a catalytic quantity of ethanolamine with the stoichiometric quantity of hydantoin, then treating the reactional medium hot at pH=14 through an excess of sodium hydroxide, acidifying to pH=9 with concentrated hydrochloric acid the so obtained solution and separating the formed precipitate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: Societe Francaise Hoechst
    Inventors: Alain Schouteeten, Yani Christidis
  • Patent number: 4507497
    Abstract: Michler's ketone analogs and salts thereof, which are photosensitizers in water-soluble photoinitiator systems used to induce polymerization in free-radically-curable, ethylenically-unsaturated materials, are disclosed. The Michler's ketone analogs have the formula: ##STR1## wherein each R is an alkyl group of 1 to 8 carbon atoms,R.sup.1 is an alkylene group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms,Z is R.sup.1 COOH or R.sup.1 H, andn is an integer having a value of 1 or 2.The photoinitiator systems are useful in imaging systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Laurence W. Reilly, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4501895
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel compounds for preventing or retarding the degradation of elastin or other proteins and therefore preventing or retarding the disease states caused by said degradation, of the formula: ##STR1## or its pharmacologically acceptable salts. The invention also relates to novel methods and intermediates for making the compounds. The intermediate compound being of the formula: ##STR2## wherein R.sub.2 is (a) halogen; or(b) trifluoromethyl;wherein R.sub.3 is(a) --C(O)R.sub.4 ;(b) --CH(OH)R.sub.4 ;(c) --CH.sub.2 R 4; or(d) --CH.dbd.CHR.sub.4 ;wherein R.sub.4 is alkyl or 13 to 25 carbon atoms inclusive, and the pharmacologically acceptable base addition salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Assignee: G.D. Searle & Co.
    Inventors: Richard A. Mueller, Richard A. Partis
  • Patent number: 4500721
    Abstract: A process for producing benzaldehydes by catalytic reduction of benzonitriles in the presence of an acid using a Raney nickel catalyst pretreated with a copper salt is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamachika, Hirotoshi Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 4499013
    Abstract: Certain fatty acids, esters and alcohol derivatives useful as electrical tree and water tree resistant compounds in polymer compositions are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1985
    Assignee: National Distillers and Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Barlow, Irwin S. Schlossman, Robert E. Borgerding
  • Patent number: 4487972
    Abstract: This specification discloses a process for the production of oxygenated compounds, more specifically aldehydes and alcohols, by reacting an olefin with hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the presence of, as a ctalyst, an insoluble polymer containing a functional group, which may be an amine, thiol, phosphine, or arsine group, having chemically bonded thereto a metal of Group VIII of the Periodic Table. The metal can be, for example, rhodium, cobalt, or ruthenium. The olefin can contain more than one carbon-to-carbon double bond, may be an open chain or a cyclic olefin, and may be substituted. Further, the olefin may be contained in a refinery stream such as a cracked gasoline. The reaction may be carried out in the presence of a polar solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1984
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Werner O. Haag, Darrell D. Whitehurst
  • Patent number: 4486605
    Abstract: A method for producing an aromatic carbonyl compound represented by the formula (B)-1 or (B)-2: ##STR1## comprising decomposing a hydroperoxide represented by the formula (A)-1 or (A)-2: ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are defined in the specification, in an inert gas atmosphere in the presence of an aqueous layer containing an iron salt, a copper salt and an acid is disclosed. Novel m-(2-hydroxy-2-propyl)acetophenone and m-isopropenylacetophenone which are useful as an intermediate for the preparation of medicines are also disclosed. A method for producing m-isopropenylacetophenone comprising dehydrating m-(2-hydroxy-2-propyl)acetophenone in the presence of an acid catalyst is further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Haruhisa Harada, Hiroshi Maki
  • Patent number: 4483868
    Abstract: Diseases and ailments accompanied by gastric and gastroduodenal lesions treated by administering a compound of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which R represents hydrogen or alkyl containing 1 to 5 carbon atoms and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, identical or different, both represent alkoxy containing 1 to 3 carbon atoms, or both represent halogen, or R.sub.1 represents hydrogen and R.sub.2 represents halogen, nitro or trifluoromethyl, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 form a methylenedioxy group at adjacent carbon atoms, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, particularly alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, or amine salts of said acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1984
    Assignee: Roussel Uclaf
    Inventors: Yani Christidis, Robert Fournex, Colette Tournemine
  • Patent number: 4481374
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of hydroxybenzaldehydes by oxidation of hydroxybenzylic alcohols through oxygen or oxygen-containing gas, said process being carried out in aqueous alkaline medium in the absence of any catalyst whatsoever, at a temperature comprised between 25.degree. and 50.degree. C. and in the presence of an alkaline hydroxide in such a quantity that the molar ratio of alkaline hydroxide to hydroxybenzylic alcohol used is comprised between 2.25 and 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1984
    Assignee: Societe Francaise Hoechst
    Inventors: Yani Christidis, Jean-Claude Vallejos
  • Patent number: 4469885
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel compounds for preventing or retarding the degradation of elastin or other proteins and therefore preventing or retarding the disease states caused by said degradation, of the formula: ##STR1## or its pharmacologically acceptable salts. The invention also relates to novel methods and intermediates for making the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1984
    Assignee: G. D. Searle & Co.
    Inventors: Richard A. Mueller, Richard A. Partis
  • Patent number: 4467112
    Abstract: p-n-Alkylbenzoic acids having high purity without containing isomers are important as intermediates for liquid crystals. The p-n-alkylbenzoic acid is produced by reacting a p-formylbenzoic acid or its ester with a ketone having the formula ##STR1## wherein R represents a C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 n-alkyl or n-alkenyl group in the presence of a basic catalyst to obtain an unsaturated ketone compound having the formula ##STR2## wherein R is defined above and X represents hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1984
    Assignee: Kawasaki Kasei Chemicals Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Matsuura, Kazuya Nagaoka, Kouji Kusabe, Shuichi Nakatani
  • Patent number: 4466823
    Abstract: Unwanted sicklepod plants are controlled by subjecting the plants to an effective dosage of the (R.sup.*,S.sup.*)-(+)- optical isomer of 4-benzoyl-2,3-diphenylbutyric acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1984
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Kurt G. R. Sundelin, Gene A. Bozarth
  • Patent number: 4461912
    Abstract: Phenylacetic derivatives of formula (I): ##STR1## (wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl group and n represents an integer from 1 to 3) and salts and esters thereof have analgesic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory activity and may be prepared by reducing the corresponding acid or ester having an oxo group at the 2-position of the cycloalkylidene ring system and, if necessary, salifying the resulting product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1984
    Assignee: Sankyo Company Limited
    Inventors: Atsusuke Terada, Shunji Naruto, Eiichi Misaka
  • Patent number: 4454350
    Abstract: A process for the acylation of halo- or trihalomethylbenzenes, wherein a halo- or trihalomethylbenzene is reacted with a carboxylic acid, a precursor or a derivative thereof in the presence of boron trifluoride in an amount such that the absolute pressure of the boron trifluoride within the reaction vessel exceeds 1 bar, and in the presence of hydrofluoric acid as a solvent. The resultant products are useful as intermediates in the synthesis of compounds having a phytosanitary (e.g., herbicidal) or pharmaceutical activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1984
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Specialities Chimiques
    Inventor: Michel Desbois
  • Patent number: 4453005
    Abstract: Substituted phenylalkenoic acids and esters of the formula: ##STR1## having useful pharmaceutical activity and processes for their preparation are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: Merck Frosst Canada, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrice C. Belanger, Claude Dufresne, John W. Gillard, Haydn W. R. Williams
  • Patent number: 4446078
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of .alpha.,.alpha.-difluoroalkoxy or .alpha.,.alpha.-difluoroalkylthiophenyl ketones, in which a polyhaloalkoxybenzene or a polyhaloalkylthiobenzene is reacted with a carboxylic acid, a precursor or a derivative of this acid in the presence of boron trifluoride in such an amount that the absolute pressure of the boron trifluoride within the reaction vessel exceeds 1 bar, and in the presence of hydrofluoric acid as a solvent. The resultant products are useful as intermediates in the synthesis of compounds having phytosanitary (e.g., herbicidal) or pharmaceutical activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Specialites Chimiques
    Inventor: Michel Desbois
  • Patent number: 4421927
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new cinnamoyl-cinnamic acid derivative selected from the group constituted by:(i) the m-cinnamoyl-cinnamic acid derivatives of formula ##STR1## in which: X.sub.o,X.sub.1,X.sub.2,X.sub.3,X.sub.4, which are identical or different, each represent an atom of hydrogen, a halogen, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, the group NRR' (where R and R' identical or different, each represent an atom of hydrogen or a lower alkyl group), the group NO.sub.2, CF.sub.3 or OH;R.sub.1 represents an atom of hydrogen or a lower alkyl group;R.sub.2 represents an atom of hydrogen or the methyl group;Y represents a group OH, OR.sub.3 (where R.sub.3 is a lower alkyl group), NRR' (where R and R' are defined as hereinabove) or the group O(CH.sub.2).sub.n NR.sub.4 R.sub.5 (where n is an integer of value 1 to 5--and preferably 2 or 3)--; and R.sub.4 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Societe de Recherches Industrielles (S.O.R.I.)
    Inventor: Francois Picart
  • Patent number: 4415746
    Abstract: This disclosure describes novel 16-aryloxy-17,18,19,20-tetranoprostanoic acids and derivatives thereof useful as bronchodilators and as hypotensive and contraceptive agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: American Cyanamid Company
    Inventors: Charles V. Grudzinskas, Martin J. Weiss
  • Patent number: 4410716
    Abstract: Novel compounds, dibenzo[a,d]cycloheptene derivatives, of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a lower alkyl group, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represent a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, and Z represents a group of the formula ##STR2## These novel compounds are useful as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents free from gastrointestinal lesions. The compounds of formula (I) can be prepared, for example, by cyclizing a compound of the general formula ##STR3## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined above, X represents a hydroxyl group or a halogen atom, one Y represents a group of the formula --CH.sub.2 COX and the other Y represents a hydrogen atom; optionally hydrolyzing the cyclized product; and optionally esterifying the product, and/or etherifying its enol group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1983
    Assignee: Toa Eiyo Kagaku Kogyo Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsutaro Hayasaka, Kuniro Saito, Sen-ichi Narita, Takao Goto, Shin-ichi Yamada, Teruo Saito, Kazuyoshi Okutani
  • Patent number: 4407757
    Abstract: Novel compounds of the formulae ##STR1## wherein R represents lower alkyl or lower alkoxy, A represents --CH.sub.2 --, --CO-- or ##STR2## n represents an integer of 1 to 8, X represents hydrogen or hydroxyl which may be protected and Y represents hydroxyl which may be protected, and their esters show an excellent action on the lysosomal membranes of cells, and exhibit excellent pharmacological activities such as physiologic host defense control activity, especially immuno-potentiating activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1983
    Assignee: Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morimoto, Isuke Imada, Masazumi Watanabe, Mitsuru Kawada
  • Patent number: 4403100
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel (11R)-11-deoxy-11-alkyl-6-oxo-prostaglandins which are useful for curing and preventing duodenal ulcers and for preventing or treating gastrointestinal cell damage caused by the use of other pharmacological agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Assignee: The Upjohn Company
    Inventor: Douglas R. Morton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4400534
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I): ##STR1## its salts, and resolved forms thereof, especially the compound of formula (II): ##STR2## and its salts are new analgesic and/or anti-inflammatory agents. The agents are prepared by resolution at the 2-position of a suitable starting material such as the compound (IV): ##STR3## or an optionally partly resolved form thereof, with subsequent reduction and optional resolution to give the trans form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1983
    Assignee: Sankyo Company, Limited
    Inventors: Atsusuke Terada, Eiichi Misaka
  • Patent number: 4390702
    Abstract: A 3-substituted-3-fluoropyruvic acid and its ester and salt of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a lower alkyl group, a lower alkanoyl group, a fluorinated lower alkanoyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted pyridyl group and R' is a hydrogen atom, an ester-forming residue or a salt-forming residue, and their production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1983
    Assignees: Daikan Kogyo Co., Ltd., Shionogi and Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Misaki, Masahiro Suefuji, Tadahiko Tsushima, Hiroshi Tanida
  • Patent number: 4381297
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is an imino acid or ester are disclosed as useful hypotensive agents due to their angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1983
    Assignee: E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald S. Karanewsky, Edward W. Petrillo, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4377709
    Abstract: 5-Oxoalkanoic acids are prepared by addition of a ketone containing at least one hydrogen atom in the .alpha.-position with regard to the keto group, to an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated acid. As catalysts secondary amines are present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1983
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Werner H. Muller
  • Patent number: 4371547
    Abstract: 2-Benzylideneglutaraldehydes of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 independently are hydrogen or a substituent selected from the group consisting of halo, lower-alkyl, phenyl, carboxy, lower-alkoxycarbonyl, phenoxycarbonyl, aminocarbonyl, hydroxysulfonyl, nitro, cyano, hydroxy, lower-alkoxy and phenoxy, a method of use thereof as disinfectants, disinfectant compositions comprising them, and 2,6-dialkoxy-3-(.alpha.-alkoxybenzyl)tetrahydropyrans of the formula ##STR2## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are as defined above and R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 independently are alkyl of one to four carbon atoms, which are intermediates for their preparation are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Assignee: Sterling Drug Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Munzenmaier, Heinz Eggensperger, Helmut H. Ehlers, Wolfgang Beilfuss, Lothar Bucklers, Hans-Peter Harke
  • Patent number: 4365076
    Abstract: Novel 4-(2-oxo-1-cycloalkylidenemethyl)phenylacetic acid derivatives and non-toxic pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are useful as anti-inflammatory agents.The compounds may be prepared by reacting a p-formylphenylacetic acid ester derivative with an enamine of cycloalkanone and hydrolyzing the resulting product, or with a cycloalkanone in the presence of a base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1982
    Assignee: Sankyo Company Limited
    Inventors: Atsusuke Terada, Shigeru Tanaka, Eiichi Misaka
  • Patent number: 4348538
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of a 3-bromo-4-fluoro-benzaldehyde acetal of the formula: ##STR1## in which R each independently is a C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 alkyl group or the radicals R together are a C.sub.2 to C.sub.5 alkanediyl radical,comprising reacting 3-bromo-4-fluoro-phenylglyoxylic acid of the formula: ##STR2## with an amine of the formula:H.sub.2 N--R.sup.1in whichR.sup.1 is an alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl radical, at a temperature between about 0.degree. and 200.degree. C. to produce a 3-bromo-4-fluoro-benzaldimine of the formula: ##STR3## and reacting that with an alcohol or alkanediol of the formula:(HO).sub.n --Rin which n is 1 or 2 in the presence of sulphuric acid at a temperature between about 0.degree. and 100.degree. C. Various of the reactants are new and syntheses are given.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fritz Maurer, Uwe Priesnitz, Hans-Jochem Riebel, Bernd Gallenkamp, Erich Klauke
  • Patent number: 4336397
    Abstract: 2,4-Dioxo-4-substituted-1-butanoic acid derivatives of the formula: ##STR1## where R is hydrogen or C.sub.1-4 alkyl; andL is a lipophilic group consisting essentially of: ##STR2## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each independently selected from the group consisting of (a) hydrogen; (b) C.sub.4-12 straight or branched chain alkyl; (c) C.sub.4-7 cycloalkyl; and (d) tetrahydronaphthyl; provided that R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may not both be hydrogen; and when one of R.sup.1 or R.sup.2 is tetrahydronaphthyl, the other must be some other substituent; and that positions 2 and 6 of the substituted phenyl moiety may not be substituted; and ##STR3## where R.sup.1, and R.sup.2 have the same meaning as above except tetrahydronaphthyl;R.sup.3 is bromine, chlorine, or fluorine;m is 0 to 3;or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1982
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Edward J. Cragoe, Jr., Arthur A. Patchett, Clarence S. Rooney, Haydn W. R. Williams