Patents Examined by D. G. Rivers
  • Patent number: 4816458
    Abstract: Substituted 2,3-dihydro-6-substituted-pyrimido[2,1-f]purine-4,8(1H,9H)-diones, their tautomers and salts, are disclosed for use as antihyperproliferative skin disease agents.Methods for their preparation and use are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1989
    Assignee: Schering Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel M. Solomon, James J. Kaminski
  • Patent number: 4749706
    Abstract: Stereoisomerically pure forms of normorphine analogs which have superior analgesic and nonaddicting qualities are described. In addition, a method of separating diastereomeric forms of N-sec-alkyl-substituted analogs utilizes the hydrocarbyl(1-8C) diesters of the normorphine derivatives. A new method for preparing the N-methylalkylmethyl derivatives of normorphine and norcodeine and their conventional analogs is also disclosed. This method employs the corresponding methyl alkyl ketones and a reducing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: John A. Lawson, Joseph I. DeGraw, Gilda H. Loew
  • Patent number: 4739053
    Abstract: Novel 2H-v-triazolo[4,5-d]pyrimidines of the general formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently of one another are each alkyl, unsubstituted or substituted phenyl or phenalkyl, or ##STR2## is a saturated 5-membered or 6-membered heterocyclic ring, X is alkyl, halogen or phenyl n is 0, 1 or 2, and A is ##STR3## hydrogen, halogen, cyano, thiocyano, alkoxy, alkoxyalkoxy, unsubstituted or substituted phenoxy, phenylalkoxy, alkylthio, phenylthio, --S--(CH.sub.2).sub.m --COO-alkyl, where m is from 1 to 4, alkylcarbonyl, benzoyl, carboxyl, carboalkoxy, alkylsulfonyl, phenylsulfonyl, an N-imidazole, benzimidazole, 1,2,3-triazole, benzotriazole, 2-mercaptobenzothiazole, 2-mercaptobenzimidazole, 2-mercaptothiazole or 2-mercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole radical, or a radical of the formula ##STR4## where R.sup.4 is H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, p is from 2 to 5 and R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are each C.sub.1 -C.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1988
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Albert, Gerhard Hoffmann, Peter Neumann
  • Patent number: 4614743
    Abstract: The compound 4,7-dimethyl-2-(4-pyridinyl)-1,2,4-triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-5(4H)-one and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are analgesic and anti-inflammatory agents. Methods for preparing and using the compound and salts are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1986
    Assignee: Schering Corporation
    Inventors: Richard E. Chipkin, Joseph T. Witkowski
  • Patent number: 4610987
    Abstract: Imidazoquinazolin-2-one compounds having platelet aggregation inhibitory activity is disclosed. These compounds have high water-solubility and reduced influences on the circulatory system and are useful for treatment and prophylaxis of intravascular thromboembolism and temporary ischemia as well as prevention of thrombus upon use of prosthetic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: Daiichi Seiyaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumiyoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 4579847
    Abstract: Amino derivatives of benzylidene-Pyrrolo[2,1-b] Quinazolines are provided, together with pharmaceutical compositions containing them. The compounds and the compositions have pharmaceutical utility and are particularly useful as anti allergy agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Assignee: Farmitalia Carlo Erba S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gianfederico Doria, Carlo Passarotti, Maria L. Corno
  • Patent number: 4555579
    Abstract: Angiotensin converted enzyme inhibitor activity if exhibited by compounds having the formula ##STR1## and salts thereof wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, aryl, or heteroaryl; R.sub.2 is hydrogen, amino, alkanoylamino, arylcarbonylamino, or heteroarylcarbonylamino;R.sub.3 is hydrogen, alkyl, or aminoalkyl;R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are the same or different and each is hydrogen, alkyl, halogen, aryl, arylalkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, alkylthio, aryloxy, arylthio, or cycloalkyl, or R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 taken together are oxo, ethylenedithio or propylenedithio;one of R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 is ##STR2## and the other is hydrogen, alkyl or arylalkyl; R.sub.8 is hydrogen, alkl or aryl;R.sub.9 is hydrogen or alkyl;n is 0 or an integer of 1 to 8;m is 0 or 1; andA is --(CH.sub.2).sub.p --wherein p is 0 or 1, --NH--, or --O--.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1985
    Assignee: E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.
    Inventor: George C. Rovnyak
  • Patent number: 4355185
    Abstract: 2-Mercaptoalkylsulphides and 2-mercaptoalkylethers are obtained by the hydrazinolysis of 3-thiaalkylisothiuronium salts and 3-oxaalkylisothiuronium salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1982
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bergthaller, Peter Wenzl
  • Patent number: 4324920
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of otho-(hydrocarbylthio)-phenols, having at least one hydrogen on a carbon atom ortho to a hydroxy group, with hydrocarbyl disulfides in the presence of catalytic amounts of aluminum phenoxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1982
    Assignee: Ethyl Corporation
    Inventors: Bonnie G. McKinnie, Paul F. Ranken
  • Patent number: 4323572
    Abstract: Tricyclic isoindole derivatives characterized by having a 1,2,3,4,6,10b-hexahydropyrazino[2,1-a]isoindole or 1,3,4,10b-tetrahydropyrimido[6,1-a]isoindol-6(2H)-one nucleus are disclosed. The foregoing compounds are useful antihypertensive agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1982
    Assignee: American Home Products Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher A. Demerson, Leslie G. Humber, Jean-Marie Ferland
  • Patent number: 4204868
    Abstract: A photolithographic plate, method for preparation thereof, and salt compound useful in the preparation, the method involving the treatment of a metallic silver image on a substrate with a homogeneously stable acidic aqueous salt solution comprising a ferricyanide anion for oxidizing the metallic silver and an organic cation capable of forming a water-insoluble, inherently oleophilic complex with oxidized silver, the cation being derived from a protonatable nitrogen-substituted hydrocarbon compound containing a formal imine group therein which is in resonant association with adjacent groups within the hydrocarbon compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: David R. Boston
  • Patent number: 4144393
    Abstract: 3-Acetoxymethyl cephalosporin antibiotics in which the 7.beta.-acylamido group has the structure ##STR1## where R is thienyl, furyl or phenyl; R.sup.a is C.sub.1-4 alkyl, C.sub.2-4 alkenyl, C.sub.3-7 cycloalkyl or phenyl, and R.sup.b is hydrogen, carboxy, C.sub.2 -C.sub.5 carbalkoxy or any of the groups designated for R.sup.a, or R.sup.a and R.sup.b together with the carbon atom to which they are attached form a C.sub.3-7 cycloalkylidene or cycloalkenylidene group; exhibit broad spectrum antibiotic activity characterized by particularly high activity against gram negative microorganisms, including those which produce .beta.-lactamases. The compounds, which are syn isomers or exist as mixtures of syn and anti isomers containing at least 90% of the syn isomer, have particularly high in vitro activity against strains of Escherichia coli. Haemophilus influenzae and Proteus organisms; and also shown unusually high activity against Pseudomonas organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1979
    Assignee: Glaxo Laboratories Limited
    Inventors: Janice Bradshaw, Martin C. Cook, Gordon I. Gregory
  • Patent number: 4144392
    Abstract: Cephalosporin antibiotics having the formula: ##STR1## (where R is thienyl, furyl or phenyl; R.sup.a is hydrogen, C.sub.1-4 alkyl, C.sub.2-4 alkenyl, C.sub.3-7 cycloalkyl or phenyl, and R.sup.b is hydrogen, C.sub.1-4 alkyl, C.sub.2-4 alkenyl, C.sub.3-7 cycloalkyl, phenyl, carboxy or C.sub.2-5 alkoxycarbonyl, or R.sup.a and R.sup.b together with the carbon atom to which they are attached form a C.sub.3-7 cycloalkylidene or cycloalkenylidene group; R.sup.13 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, C.sub.3-7 cycloalkyl, phenylalkyl, phenyl or naphthyl, thiadiazolyl, diazolyl, triazolyl, tetrazolyl, thiazolyl, thiatriazolyl, oxazolyl, oxadiazolyl, pyridyl, pyrimidyl, benzimidazolyl, benzoxazolyl, benzothiazolyl, triazolopyridyl or purinyl, and n is 0, 1 or 2 and their physiologically acceptable derivatives exhibit broad spectrum antibiotic activity characterized by particularly high activity against gram negative microorganisms, including those which produce .beta.-lactamases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1979
    Assignee: Glaxo Laboratories Limited
    Inventors: Janice Bradshaw, Martin C. Cook, Gordon I. Gregory
  • Patent number: 4104400
    Abstract: Imidazo[2,1-b]thiazole derivatives are provided having the structure ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl or carboxy, and R.sup.2 is hydrogen, lower alkyl or phenyl.In addition, a method is provided for treating or inhibiting helminthiasis by parenterally, perorally or topically administering a pharmaceutical composition containing such imidazo[2,1-b]thiazole derivatives. Pharmaceutical compositions for use in the above method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1978
    Assignee: E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Lee Weisenborn, Rudiger D. Haugwitz, Frederic Peter Hauck
  • Patent number: 4064247
    Abstract: Thiazolo[3,4-b]isoquinoline derivatives of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein A represents 3-pyridyl, 4-pyridyl or 5-isoquinolyl and, when A represents 3-pyridyl, X.sub.1 represents hydrogen, halogen, dimethylamino or cyano, X.sub.2 represents hydrogen or fluorine and X.sub.3 represents hydrogen or nitro, at least two of X.sub.1, X.sub.2 and X.sub.3 representing hydrogen, or X.sub.1 X.sub.2 together represent methylenedioxy and X.sub.3 represents hydrogen, and when A represents 4-pyridyl or 5-isoquinolyl, X.sub.1, X.sub.2 and X.sub.3 each represent hydrogen, and non-toxic pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof, possess useful pharmacodynamic properties, in particular analgesic and antipyretic activity. This invention relates to new therapeutically useful thiazolo[3,4-b]isoquinoline derivatives, to processes for their preparation and to pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1977
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc Industries
    Inventors: Daniel Farge, Alain Jossin, Gerard Ponsinet, Daniel Reisdorf
  • Patent number: 4028372
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel compounds of the isoindoline series. More particularly, the present invention relates to certain novel 1-imino-3-(2-oxo-4-thioxo-5-thiazolidinylidene)isoindolines, 1-imino-3-(2,4-dithioxo-5-thiazolidinylidene)isoindolines, water-insoluble pigments prepared therefrom, and to methods for their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1977
    Assignee: Sterling Drug Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan N. Crounse, Nicholas A. Ambrosiano
  • Patent number: 4025626
    Abstract: The compounds of this invention are cephalosporins having various acyl substituents at the 7-position and an ureidoalkyl substituted tetrazolylthiomethyl group at the 3-position of the cephem nucleus and intermediates for the preparation thereof. The 7-acylated compounds have antibacterial activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: SmithKline Corporation
    Inventor: David A. Berges
  • Patent number: 4025525
    Abstract: Allantoin compound with a metal salt of 2-pyrrolidone-5-carboxylic acid has a solubility which is from 2.5 to 4 times greater than that of pure allantoin. The compound has almost the same pharmacological effect as allantoin itself and is harmless, and therefore it can be used in medicines, cosmetics, creams, ointments, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: Kawaken Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirohide Takayama, Ippei Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 4025520
    Abstract: A process for the dehydrohalogenation of a 7-halo- or a 1,7-dihalodihydrocodeinone dialkyl ketal of the general formula (I): ##STR1## in which R represents an alkyl group containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, X represents hydrogen or chlorine or bromine and Y represents chlorine or bromine which comprises subjecting the ketal to the action of a base in the presence of a polar aprotic solvent. The process has utility in facilitating the production of codeine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Assignee: Macfarlan Smith Limited
    Inventors: Edward Leon Grew, Nigel David Vaughan Wilson
  • Patent number: 4022897
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R may be hydrogen or a straight or branched chain alkyl radical of from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, aryl of from 6 to 10 carbon atoms, or aralkyl of from 7 to 10 carbon atoms;Y may be hydrogen, alkyl of from 1 to 4 carbons, CF.sub.3, F, Cl, or Br; andZ may be hydrogen or as defined hereinafter.These compounds are useful as central nervous system stimulants or more specifically in enhancing performance or as mood elevators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1977
    Assignee: E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.
    Inventors: Harry Louis Yale, John T. Sheehan