Patents Examined by Bernard I. Dentz
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Patent number: 4988706Abstract: Novel compounds of formula (I), processes for their preparation, and their use as pharmaceutical agents are described: ##STR1## in which X represents a group ##STR2## wherein one of Y and Z represents nitrogen and the other represents CR where R is selected from halogen, CN, OR.sup.1, SR.sup.1, N(R.sup.1).sub.2, NHR.sup.1, NHCOR.sup.1, NHCOOCH.sub.3, NHCOOC.sub.2 H.sub.5, NHOR.sup.1, NHNH.sub.2, COR.sup.1, COR.sup.2, C.sub.2-4 alkenyl, C.sub.2-4 alkynyl or C.sub.1-2 alkyl substituted with OR.sup.1, N(R.sup.1).sub.2, SR.sup.1, CO.sub.2 R.sup.1, CON(R.sup.1).sub.2 or one or two halogen atoms, in which R.sup.1 is hydrogen or C.sub.1-2 alkyl and R.sup.2 is OR.sup.1, NH.sub.2 or NHR.sup.1 ; and each of p and q independently represents an integer of 2 to 4.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1989Date of Patent: January 29, 1991Assignee: Beecham Group P.L.C.Inventors: Michael S. Hadley, Barry S. Orlek, Paul A. Wyman, Harry J. Wadsworth
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Patent number: 4988707Abstract: This invention relates to substituted imidazopyridine dervatives having the following formula ##STR1## and isomers thereof; or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof: whereinR.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently selected from hydrogen; straight or branched chain alkyl of 1 to 15 carbon atoms; cycloalkyl of 3 to 8 carbon atoms; cycloalkyl which can be substituted once or more by alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; phenyl; phenyl which can be substituted once or more by alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms or halogen; straight or branched alkenyl having 3 to 15 carbon atoms.y is phenyl or phenyl substituted once or more by alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; alkoxy wherein the alkyl is 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and halogen selected from the group consisting of bromo, fluoro or chloro.m is an integer from 0 to 5.n is an integer from 1 to 5.R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1989Date of Patent: January 29, 1991Assignee: G. D. Searle & Co.Inventors: Michael A. Stealey, Richard M. Weier
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Patent number: 4985444Abstract: The invention relates to pyrazolopyridine compounds for the treatment of melancholia, heart failure, hypertension, renal insufficiency, edema, obesity, bronchial asthma, gout, hyperuricemia, sudden infant death syndrome, immunosuppression, diabetes, myocardiac infection, thrombosis, obstruction, arteriosclerosis obliterans, thrombophlebitis, cerebral infarction, transient ischemic attack or angina pectoris, said compounds being of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is aryl, andR.sup.2 is unsaturated heterocyclic group which contains at least one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of N, O and S, which may have one or more suitable substituent(s),or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1990Date of Patent: January 15, 1991Assignee: Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youichi Shiokawa, Atsushi Akahane, Hirohito Katayama, Takafumi Mitsunaga
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Patent number: 4982006Abstract: The present invention involves process for the preparation of compounds having the chemical structure: ##STR1## wherein Ar--H is an aromatic compound which is activated to an electrophilic attack, and wherein --Y is an aliphatic group having a labile moiety, especially where the labile moiety is a terminally unsaturated moiety: --C.tbd.CH, ##STR2## or aldehydes in the form of their acetals. The process comprises the step of reacting Ar--H and ##STR3## wherein --X is --Cl or --Br, and where the reaction step is carried out in a solvent medium at a temperature of from about -40.degree. C. to about -100.degree. C. using stannic chloride as a catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1989Date of Patent: January 1, 1991Assignee: Norwich Eaton Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventor: Thomas T. Hudec
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Patent number: 4978679Abstract: Positions 7- and/or 6-substituted 1,2,3,4,4a,9b-Hexahydro-8-hydroxydibenzofuran-3-ols and analogs of that general structure are described.These compounds are found to be potent inhibitors of 5-lipoxygenase, an enzyme crucial to the biosynthesis of leukotrienes and useful in the treatment of a variety of inflammatory conditions.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1989Date of Patent: December 18, 1990Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.Inventors: Kathleen M. Rupprecht, Joshua S. Boger
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Patent number: 4978761Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a lower alkyl; R.sup.2 is methyl which is substituted by a carboxy, alkoxycarbonyl, cyano, halogen, aryl or heterocyclic group of C.sub.2-15 chain hydrocarbon residue having no lower alkyl at the .alpha.-position which may be substituted by a carboxy, alkoxycarbonyl, cyano, halogen, aryl or heterocyclic group; R.sup.3 is a lower alkyl; R.sup.4 is hydrogen or acyl; and R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 each is a lower alkyl or lower alkoxy, or R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 combinedly are butadienylene or a salt thereof.The compound (I) of the present invention has a strong 5- and 12-lipoxygenase inhibiting action, is of high safety and is useful as, among others, an agent for ameliorating dysfunction circulatory system, an anti-allergic agent and a pharmaceutical agent for central nervous system.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1989Date of Patent: December 18, 1990Assignee: Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Giichi Goto, Shigenori Ohkawa, Naohisa Fukuda
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Patent number: 4977161Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of the formula: ##STR1## process for their production, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their pharmaceutical uses, and intermediates useful for their production and processes for the production of such intermediates. The compounds are used as anti-hyperlipoproteinemic agents for example.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1989Date of Patent: December 11, 1990Assignee: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Fujikawa, Mikio Suzuki, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Mitsuaki Sakashita, Masaki Kitahara
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Patent number: 4975431Abstract: The invention concerns compounds of formula I ##STR1## or a salt thereof, wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each independently represent hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, carboxyloweralkyl, carboxy, hydroxyloweralkyl, halogen, haloloweralkyl, lower alkoxycarbonyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted aralkyl, n represents an integer from 3 to 6; R.sup.3 represents hydrogen or single or multiple substitution on one or more of the aliphatic carbons by one or more substituents selected from lower alkyl, optionally substituted aryl and optionally substituted aralkyl; A represents a group of formula (i) or (ii) below:--CR.sup.4 R.sup.5 --(CR.sup.6 R.sup.7).sub.m -- (i)--CX--(CR.sup.6 R.sup.7).sub.m -- (ii)in which R.sup.4, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 each independently represent hydrogen or lower alkyl (providing that when R.sup.5 is NH.sub.2, R.sup.4 is hydrogen); m is O or 1; R.sup.5 represents hydrogen, NH.sub.2, OH or loweralkoxy, and X is .dbd.O, .dbd.NH or .dbd.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1989Date of Patent: December 4, 1990Assignee: John Wyeth & Brother LimitedInventors: Roger Crossley, Albert Opalko
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Patent number: 4975457Abstract: Certain trans-2,3-disubstituted-2,3-dihydro-5-hydroxybenzofurans are described. The synthesis involves an intramolecular Michael addition to yield the thermodynamic trans isomer. The compounds were found to be inhibitors of 5-lipoxygenase, an enzyme crucial to the biosynthesis of leukotrienes and useful for the treatment of various inflammatory diseases.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1989Date of Patent: December 4, 1990Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.Inventors: Kathleen M. Rupprecht, Joshua S. Boger
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Patent number: 4975464Abstract: Compounds presented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein Y is oxygen, R.sup.2 is H, alkyl, alkoxy, alkoxymethyl, --COOR.sup.3, --CH.sub.2 COOR.sup.3, --CH.dbd.CH--COOR.sup.3, halogen, --CF.sub.3, --COR.sup.4, --OCOR.sup.4, --CH.sub.2 OCOR.sup.4, --SO.sub.2 R.sup.4, --OSO.sub.2 R.sup.4, --CONR.sup.5 R.sup.6, --OCONR.sup.5 R.sup.6, --SO.sub.2 NR.sup.5 R.sup.6, --COHN-- SO.sub.2 NR.sup.5 R.sup.6, --NHSO.sub.2 R.sup.7, --NO.sub.2, --OH, --CH.sub.2 OH, guanidino, benzyloxy, guanidinophenylthiomethyl, morpholinosulfonylphenoxymethyl, pyridyloxymethyl, or (1,1-dioxothiazol-3-yl)carbonyl, or when Y is sulfur, R.sup.2 is H, alkyl, alkoxy, halogen, --COOR.sup.3, --CH.sub.2 COOR.sup.3, --NO.sub.2, or --SO.sub.2 NR.sup.5 R.sup.6, and n represents an integer of one to five, and when n represents more than two, each or R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1989Date of Patent: December 4, 1990Inventors: Katsuhiro Imaki, Yoshinobu Arai, Hiroyuki Ohno
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Patent number: 4966907Abstract: Novel position-4 and/or position-6 substituted 5-hydroxy-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran and analogs of the following general structural formula (I) are disclosed: ##STR1## These compounds are found to be potent inhibitors of leukotriene biosynthesis.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1988Date of Patent: October 30, 1990Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.Inventors: Charles G. Caldwell, Milton L. Hammond, Ihor E. Kopka, Stanley H. B. Wright, Robert A. Zambias
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Patent number: 4966904Abstract: A compound of the formula (I) or its salt and a process for producing the compounds; The compounds have the effect to dilate neophrovascular tracts; ##STR1## Wherein ##STR2## represents the formula ##STR3## (wherein R.sup.4 is a hydrogen atom or lower alkylsulfonyl); R.sup.1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, hydroxyl, halogen, amino, or lower acylamino;R.sup.2 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, hydroxyl, amino, or lower alkylsulfonylamino;R.sup.3 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, or hydroxyl;R is hydrogen or halogen;with the proviso that when R.sup.1 is hydroxyl, there is no case that all of R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R are hydrogens, and further with the proviso that when R is hydrogen, A excludes ##STR4## or a salt therof.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1989Date of Patent: October 30, 1990Assignee: Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Tanaka, Takashi Fujikura, Ryuji Tsuzuki, Masaki Yokota, Takeyuki Yatsu
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Patent number: 4966973Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 stands for hydrogen or a lower alkyl; n denotes an integer of 1 to 6; X stands for an optionally oxidized sulphur atom, oxygen atom or an optionally substituted imino; R.sup.2 stands for methyl or an organic residual group bonded through methylene, methine a quaternary carbon; R.sup.3 stands for a lower alkyl; R.sup.4 stands for hydrogen or acyl; R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 each stand for a lower alkoxy or a lower alkyl, or R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 combinedly stand for butadienylene, and salts thereof.The compound (I) of the present invention has a strong 5-lipoxygenase inhibiting action, is of high safety and is useful as, among others, an agent for ameliorating dysfunction of circulatory system, an anti-allergic agent and a pharmaceutical agent for central nervous system.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1989Date of Patent: October 30, 1990Assignee: Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Giichi Goto, Shigenori Ohkawa, Naohisa Fukuda
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Patent number: 4965273Abstract: There are disclosed new naphthyridine- and quinoline-carboxylic acids having a 1-tertiary-alkyl substituent, compositions containing them, and their use in treating bacterial infections in warm-blooded animals. Also disclosed are novel amines and intermediates used in the preparation of the naphthyridine- and quinoline-carboxylic acids.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1988Date of Patent: October 23, 1990Assignee: Bristol-Myers CompanyInventors: Abraham Weber, Daniel Bouzard, Munir Essiz, Pierre Di Cesare, Jean-Pierre Jacquet, Philippe Remuzon
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Patent number: 4960909Abstract: Bicyclic sulfonamido derivatives represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen or lower alkyl; R.sub.2 is an alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, aralkyl or hetelocycle; R.sub.3 is a hydrogen or methyl; X is an alkylene or alkenylene which may be substituted by a fluorine atom or atoms and may contain an oxygen, sulfur and/or phenylene in the chain; Y is straight or branched alkylene or alkenylene oxygen, or sulfur; m is 0 or 1; and n is 0, 1 or 2, or their salt, said derivatives being useful as antithrombotic, anti-vasoconstricting, and anti-bronchoconstricting drugs.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1989Date of Patent: October 2, 1990Assignee: Shionogi & Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Narisada, Mitsuaki Ohtani, Fumihiko Watanabe, Sanji Hagishita, Kaoru Seno, Susumu Kamata, Nobuhiro Haga, Tatsuo Tsuri, Tadahiko Tsushima, Kenji Kawada
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Patent number: 4960780Abstract: Nitro-substituted heterocyclic compounds of the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or alkyl,Z is an optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heterocyclic groun containing at least one atom selected from N, O and S,A is optionally substituted ethylene or optionally substituted trimethylene, andB stands for 2 or 3 members of a heterocyclic ring which is formed, together with the adjacent C-atom and N-atom and at least one of said members may represent a hetero atom and may be optionally substituted, provided that when B stands for 3 members, two of which are carbon atoms and the other one is a nitrogen atom which is located in the middle of the three members, then at least one of said two carbon atoms must be substituted by a keto group. Such compounds being useful as insecticides.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1989Date of Patent: October 2, 1990Assignee: Nihon Tokushu Noyaku Seizo K. K.Inventors: Kozo Shiokawa, Shinichi Tsuboi, Shoko Sasaki, Koichi Moriya, Yumi Hattori, Katsuhiko Shibuya
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Patent number: 4959485Abstract: This invention is directed to certain dibenzofurancarboxamides and their use as 5HT.sub.3 antagonists having unique CNS, anti-emetic and gastric prokinetic activity void of any significant D.sub.2 receptor binding properties. This invention also describes novel processes necessary for their preparation.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1989Date of Patent: September 25, 1990Assignee: Rorer Pharmaceutical CorporationInventors: Raymond D. Youssefyeh, Henry F. Campbell, Donald E. Kuhla
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Patent number: 4958034Abstract: Alkenyl succinic anhydrides having a decreased amount of tar and color bodies are made by the reaction of an olefin with maleic anhydride in the presence of an arylfluorophosphite (e.g. 2,2'-ethylidenebis(4,6-di-tert-butylphenyl) fluorophosphite) and optionally a hindered phenolic antioxidant such as 2,4,6-tri(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxybenzyl) mesitylene.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1989Date of Patent: September 18, 1990Assignee: Ethyl CorporationInventors: Paul S. Hale, Kju H. Shin
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Patent number: 4958036Abstract: A process is provided for preparing a 7-oxabicycloheptane amino alcohol intermediate of the general structure ##STR1## (wherein the above structures represents (D) or (L) isomers)which is useful in preparing thromboxane A.sub.2 receptor antagonists. This intermediate is prepared by reacting mesanhydride with an aryl amine ##STR2## wherein R is alkyl, CH.sub.2 OH, CO.sub.2 H or CO.sub.2 alkyl, to form the acid ##STR3## which is reduced by treatment with lithium aluminum hydride or diisobutylaluminum hydride or Red-Al to form the alcohol ##STR4## wherein R.sup.1 is CH.sub.2 OH when R is CO.sub.2 H, CO.sub.2 alkyl or CH.sub.2 OH, and R.sup.1 is alkyl when R is alkyl; where in the above alcohol R.sup.1 is CH.sub.2 OH, such alcohol compound is treated with an alkyl chloroformate in the presence of base such as an alkali metal alkoxide to form the alcohol ##STR5## which undergoes cleavage by treatment with alkali metal, ammonia and acid to form the amino alcohol intermediate.Where in the above alcohol R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1989Date of Patent: September 18, 1990Assignee: E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.Inventor: John K. Thottathil
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Patent number: 4956478Abstract: This method which involves reacting maleic anhydride and .alpha.-olefins in an autoclave at about 200.degree.-250.degree. C. gives particularly good results and produces alkenyl-succinic anhydrides which need not be purified by distillation when using, as the starting .alpha.-olefins, dodecene containing a substantial amount of tetradecene.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1989Date of Patent: September 11, 1990Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Emanuel P. Fakoukakis, Sorin V. Mustatea, Gunter Bellmann