Patent number: 5240957
Abstract: Novel therapeutically active compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein Z.sup.i, being Z.sup.1, Z.sup.2 or Z.sup.3, is the same or different and selected among OH, OR.sup.1, NH.sub.2, NR.sub.2.sup.4, NHR.sup.4, SH, SR.sup.4 and OR.sup.4 wherein R.sup.1 is a formyl group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group or a mono- or dialkylcarbamoyl group and R.sup.4 is a lower alkyl group,R.sup.2 is a hydrogen, a halogen, a lower alkyl or a lower trifluoroalkyl group,R.sup.3 is a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group or a phenyl group, which phenyl group could optionally be substituted by one or more of fluoro, chloro, bromo, trifluoromethyl, methyl, ethyl, methoxy or ethoxy in the ortho, meta or para positions, or optionally substituted by methylenedioxy, provided that at least one of Z.sup.1, Z.sup.2 and Z.sup.3 is a group OR.sup.4 and further provided that when Z.sup.2 is OH or NH.sub.2, Z.sup.1 is NR.sub.2.sup.4, NHR.sup.4, SH, SR.sup.4 or OR.sup.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 29, 1990
Date of Patent:
August 31, 1993
Assignee:
Astra Lakemedel Akteibolag
Inventors:
Karl S. Bengtsson, Thomas Hogberg, Lars G. Johansson, Tomas DePaulis, Hans E. P. Strom, Marianne E. Widman, Sven O. gren