Patent number: 7265244
Abstract: This invention is related to novel cyclopentyl derivatives of the following general Formula (I), wherein X is methylene, oxygen, sulphur or a NR7 group; R1 is a straight or branched C1-C8 alkyl or C3-C8 alkenylene or C3-C8 alkynylene chain, optionally substituted with CF3, phenyl, phenoxy or naphthyl, the aromatic rings optionally substituted by one or more C1-C4 alkyl, halogens, trifluoromethyl, hydroxy or C1-C4 alkoxy groups; R2, R3 are independently hydrogen, a C1-C3 alkyl chain, halogen, trifluoromethyl, hydroxy or C1-C4 alkoxy groups; R4, R5,R6, R7 are independently hydrogen or C1-C6alkyl; and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof that are active as sodium and/or calcium channel modulators and therefor useful in preventing, alleviating and curing a wide range of pathologies, including, but not limited to, neurological, psychiatric, cardiovascular, inflammatory, ophthalmic, urologic, metabolic and gastrointestinal diseases, where the above mechanisms have been described as playing a pathological r
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 12, 2004
Date of Patent:
September 4, 2007
Assignee:
Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A.
Inventors:
Piero Melloni, Cibele Maria Sabido David, Alessandra Restivo, Roberto Forlani, Patricia Salvati