Patent number: 5525600
Abstract: This invention provides compounds having the structure ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, --COR.sup.2, phenyl, or phenylalkyl of 7-10 carbon atoms;the dotted line represents an optional double bond;R.sup.1 is hydrogen, --OH, OR.sup.3, or is absent if the optional double bond is present;R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are each, independently, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, phenyl, or phenylalkyl;R.sup.4 is hydrogen, --OR.sup.5, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, --COR.sup.5, --CO.sub.2 R.sup.5, --CONR.sup.5 R.sup.6, perhaloalkyl, halogen, phenyl, or phenylalkyl;R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are each, independently, hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, phenyl, or phenylalkyl; andn=0-2or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof that are useful as antipsychotic, antidepressant and anxiolytic agents useful in the treatment and relief of the symptoms of these disease states.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 28, 1994
Date of Patent:
June 11, 1996
Assignee:
American Home Products Corporation
Inventor:
Reinhardt B. Baudy