Patents by Inventor Roland Heckendorn
Roland Heckendorn has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 6656957Abstract: A compound of formula I wherein X represents an optionally halo-substituted (C2-4)alkynylene group bonded via vicinal unsaturated carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2000Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignees: Novartis AG, Sibia Neurosciences Inc.Inventors: Hans Allgeier, Yves Auberson, Michel Biollaz, Nicholas David Cosford, Fabrizio Gasparini, Roland Heckendorn, Edwin Carl Johnson, Rainer Kuhn, Mark Andrew Varney, Gönül Veliçelebi
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Patent number: 5488140Abstract: Substituted 2-aminoalk-3-enoic acid derivative of formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical that is substituted by hydroxy, and R.sub.2 is free or esterified carboxy, and their salts exhibit NMDA-antagonistic properties and are useful as active ingredients of anticonvulsive medicaments.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: January 30, 1996Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Christof Angst, Hans Allgeier, Roland Heckendorn, Daniel Wallach
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Patent number: 5294734Abstract: Substituted 2-aminoalk-3-enoic acid derivative of formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical that is substituted by optionally acylated or aliphatically or araliphatically etherified hydroxy, by halogen, by optionally acylated and/or aliphatically substituted amino or by an aza-, diaza-, azoxa- or oxa-cycloaliphatic radical, or is an oxacycloaliphatic hydrocarbon radical bonded via a carbon atom, or is an optionally aliphatically N-substituted or N-acylated azacycloaliphatic hydrocarbon radical, and R.sub.2 is free or esterified carboxy, and their salts exhibit NMDA-antagonistic properties and are useful as active ingredients of anticonvulsive medicaments.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1992Date of Patent: March 15, 1994Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corp.Inventors: Christof Angst, Hans Allgeier, Roland Heckendorn, Daniel Wallach
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Patent number: 5175344Abstract: The invention relates to unsaturated amino acids of the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents hydroxy or etherified hydroxy, R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, alkyl, hydroxy or etherified hydroxy, R.sup.3 represents hydrogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, lower alkoxyalkyl, arylalkyl, lower alkenyl, halogen or aryl, R.sup.4 represents hydrogen, alkyl or aryl, R.sup.5 represents hydrogen or alkyl, R.sup.6 represents carboxy or esterified or amidated carboxy, R.sup.7 represents amino or amino substituted by alkyl or acyl, A represents unsubstituted or alkyl-substituted .alpha.,.omega.-alkylene having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms or represents a bond, and B represents methylene or a bond, with the proviso that A is other than a bond when B represents a bond, and salts thereof. They can be manufactured, for example, in accordance with the Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction and can be used as pharmacologically active substances.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1991Date of Patent: December 29, 1992Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Christof Angst, Derek E. Brundish, John G. Dingwall, Graham E. Fagg, Hans Allgeier, Guido Bold, Rudolf Duthaler, Roland Heckendorn, Antonio Togni
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Patent number: 5051413Abstract: The invention relates to unsaturated amino acids of the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents hydroxy or etherified hydroxy, R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, alkyl, hydroxy or etherified hydroxy, R.sup.3 represents hydrogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, lower alkoxyalkyl, arylalkyl, lower alkenyl, halogen or aryl, R.sup.4 represents hydrogen, alkyl or aryl, R.sup.5 represents hydrogen or alkyl, R.sup.6 represents carboxy or esterified or amidated carboxy, R.sup.7 represents amino or amino substituted by alkyl or acyl, A represents unsubstituted or alkyl-substituted .alpha.,.omega.-alkylene having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms or represents a bond, and B represents methylene or a bond, with the proviso that A is other than a bond when B represents a bond, and salts thereof. They can be manufactured, for example, in accordance with the Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction and can be used as pharmacologically active substances.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1989Date of Patent: September 24, 1991Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Christof Angst, Derek E. Brundish, John G. Dingwall, Graham E. Fagg, Hans Allgeier, Guido Bold, Rudolf Duthaler, Roland Heckendorn, Antonio Togni
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Patent number: 4510141Abstract: The invention relates to novel polycyclic polyazaheterocycles having psychopharmacological properties, especially antidepressive and anxiolytic activity, corresponding to the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents, independently of the other, hydrogen, lower alkyl or hydroxy-lower alkyl, or together represent lower alkylene or ethyleneoxyethylene, ethyleneazaethylene or N-lower alkyl- or N-(2-hydroxy-lower alkyl)-ethyleneazaethylene, R.sub.3 represents hydrogen or a lower aliphatic hydrocarbon radical or a saturated lower cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon radical or unsubstituted or substituted phenyl, R.sub.4 and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1982Date of Patent: April 9, 1985Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventor: Roland Heckendorn
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Patent number: 4209515Abstract: The present invention relates to new triazole derivatives of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents hydrogen, lower alkyl, optionally esterified or etherified hydroxymethyl, formyl, optionally functionally modified carboxy, or optionally mono- or disubstituted aminomethyl, R.sub.2 represents lower alkyl, and R.sub.3 represents hydrogen or lower alkyl, whereby R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 as lower alkyl can be bound directly, or in .beta.- or .gamma.-position also by way of oxygen, sulphur or the imino radical or a lower alkylimino radical, and the rings A and B independently of each other can be unsubstituted or substituted, and to their addition salts with inorganic and organic acids, in particular the pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts. These new compounds possess valuable pharmacological properties. In particular they have an anticonvulsive activity and are useful for the treatment of epilepsy and of conditions of tension and of agitation.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1978Date of Patent: June 24, 1980Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Roland Heckendorn, Rene Meier
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Patent number: 4209516Abstract: The present invention relates to new triazole derivatives of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents hydrogen, lower alkyl, optionally esterified or etherified hydroxymethyl, formyl, optionally functionally modified carboxy, or optionally mono- or disubstituted aminomethyl,R.sub.2 represents lower alkyl, and R.sub.3 represents hydrogen or lower alkyl, whereby R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 as lower alkyl can be bound directly, or in .beta.- or .gamma.-position also by way of oxygen, sulphur or the imino radical or a lower alkylimino radical, and the rings A and B independently of each other can be unsubstituted or substituted, and to their addition salts with inorganic and organic acids, in particular the pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts. These new compounds possess valuable pharmacological properties. In particular they have an anti-convulsive activity and are useful for the treatment of epilepsy and of conditions of tension and of agitation.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1978Date of Patent: June 24, 1980Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Roland Heckendorn, Rene Meier
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Patent number: 4111950Abstract: Compounds of the class of 6-phenyl-4H-s-triazolo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine-2-carboxamides, their 5-oxides and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts have valuable pharmacological properties and are active ingredients for therapeutic compositions. In particular, these new compounds have an anti-convulsive and anti-aggressive action and inhibit somatic reflexes. Specific embodiments are N,N-dimethyl-6-phenyl-8-chloro-4H-s-triazolo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine-2-c arboxamide, 6-(o-fluorophenyl)-8-chloro-4H-s-triazolo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine-2-carb oxamide, N,N-dimethyl-6-(o-fluorophenyl)-8-chloro-4H-s-triazolo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodia zepine-2-carboxamide and N,N-dimethyl-6-(o-chlorophenyl)-8-chloro-4H-s-triazolo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodia zepine-2-carboxamide.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 1977Date of Patent: September 5, 1978Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Andre Gagneux, Roland Heckendorn, Rene Meier
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Patent number: 4045570Abstract: The invention relates to new heterocyclic S-imino-S-oxides of the formula I ##STR1## in which one of the symbols X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 denotes a direct bond and the other denotes the vinylene group --CH=CH-- or the epithio radical --S--, Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.2 conjointly denote an additional bond or one of the symbols denotes hydrogen and the other denotes hydrogen or, conjointly with the symbol R.sub.1 or R.sub.2, which is present on the same carbon atom, denotes the oxo radical, one of the symbols R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 denotes hydrogen or lower alkyl and the other denotes hydrogen or lower alkyl or, conjointly with the symbol Y.sub.1 or Y.sub.2, which is present on the same carbon atom, denotes the oxo radical, or, if Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.2 conjointly denote an additional bond, also denotes lower alkoxy, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 independently of one another denote hydrogen, halogen up to atomic number 35, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy or trifluoromethyl and R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1975Date of Patent: August 30, 1977Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Gunther Dorhofer, Roland Heckendorn, Erich Schmid, Angelo Storni, Armin Zust
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Patent number: 4027029Abstract: Compounds of the class of 6-phenyl-4H-s-triazolo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine-2-carboxamides, their 5-oxides and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts have valuable pharmacological properties and are active ingredients for therapeutic compositions. In particular, these new compounds have an anti-convulsive and anti-aggressive action and inhibit somatic reflexes. Specific embodiments are N,N-dimethyl-6-phenyl-8-chloro-4H-s-triazolo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine-2-c arboxamide, 6-(o-fluorophenyl)-8-chloro-4H-s-triazolo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine-2-carb oxamide, N,N-dimethyl-6-(o-fluorophenyl)-8-chloro-4H-s-triazolo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodia zepine-2-carboxamide and N,N-dimethyl-6-(o-chlorophenyl)-8-chloro-4H-s-triazolo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodia zepine-2-carboxamide.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1974Date of Patent: May 31, 1977Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Andre Gagneux, Roland Heckendorn, Rene Meier
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Patent number: 3988467Abstract: The invention relates to new aminoacyl compounds of the formula I, ##SPC1##Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1975Date of Patent: October 26, 1976Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Gunther Dorhofer, Roland Heckendorn, Erich Schmid, Angelo Storni, Armin Zust
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Patent number: 3943145Abstract: Compounds of the class of 6-phenyl-4H-v-triazolo[1,5-a][1,4] benzodiazepines, which in the 3-position are unsubstituted or substituted, particularly by a carbamoyl group or a substituted carbamoyl group, their 5-oxides and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts have valuable pharmacological properties and are active ingredients for therapeutic compositions. In particular, these new compounds have an anticonvulsive and anti-aggressive action. Specific embodiments are N,N-dimethyl-6-phenyl-8-chloro-4H-v-triazolo [1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine-3-carboxamide and N,N-dimethyl-6-(o-fluorophenyl)-8-chloro-4H-v-triazolo [1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine-3-carboxamide.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1973Date of Patent: March 9, 1976Assignee: Ciba-Geigy CorporationInventors: Andre Gagneux, Roland Heckendorn, Rene Meier