Patent number: 6503900
Abstract: This invention provides [1,4]diazepino[6,7,1-jk]carbazole compounds of the formula:
wherein: R1 and R2 are H, alkyl, alkoxy, halogen, fluorinated alkyl, —CN, —NH—SO2-alkyl, —SO2—NH-alkyl, alkyl amide, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, fluorinated alkoxy, acyl, phenoyl or thiophenoyl; R3, R4, R5 and R6 are H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkoxy or cycloalkoxy; R7 is H or alkyl; R8 is H or alkyl; and the dashed line indicates an optional double bond; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as well as methods and pharmaceutical compositions utilizing them for the treatment or prevention of disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, migraine, sleep disorders, eating disorders, obesity, epilepsy, and spinal cord injury.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 2, 2001
Date of Patent:
January 7, 2003
Assignee:
Wyeth
Inventors:
Annmarie Louise Sabb, Gregory Scott Welmaker, Robert Lewis Vogel, Joan Eileen Sabalski
Patent number: 6465524
Abstract: This invention provides a method of treating obesity, generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, late luteal phase disphoric disorder (premenstrual syndrome), attention deficit disorder, with and without hyperactivity, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, bulimia nervosa or Shy Drager Syndrome in a mammal by administering to the mammal an effective amount of a hydroxycycloalkanephenethyl amine of the following structural formula:
in which A is a moiety of the formula
where
the dotted line represents optional unsaturation;
R1 is hydrogen or alkyl;
R2 is alkyl;
R4 is hydrogen, alkyl, formyl, or alkanol;
R5 and R6 are, independently, hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl, alkoxy, alkanoyloxy, cyano, nitro, alkylmercapto, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, alkanamido, halo, trifluoromethyl, or taken together, methylene dioxy;
R7 is hydrogen or alkyl; and
n is 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4;
or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 27, 2001
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2002
Assignee:
Wyeth
Inventors:
Richard L. Rudolph, Albert T. Derivan, Eric A. Muth, G. Virginia Upton