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).

  • Patent number: 6656957
    Abstract: A compound of formula I wherein X represents an optionally halo-substituted (C2-4)alkynylene group bonded via vicinal unsaturated carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignees: 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
  • Patent number: 5488140
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Christof Angst, Hans Allgeier, Roland Heckendorn, Daniel Wallach
  • Patent number: 5294734
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corp.
    Inventors: Christof Angst, Hans Allgeier, Roland Heckendorn, Daniel Wallach
  • Patent number: 5175344
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Christof Angst, Derek E. Brundish, John G. Dingwall, Graham E. Fagg, Hans Allgeier, Guido Bold, Rudolf Duthaler, Roland Heckendorn, Antonio Togni
  • Patent number: 5051413
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Christof Angst, Derek E. Brundish, John G. Dingwall, Graham E. Fagg, Hans Allgeier, Guido Bold, Rudolf Duthaler, Roland Heckendorn, Antonio Togni
  • Patent number: 4510141
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventor: Roland Heckendorn
  • Patent number: 4209515
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1980
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Roland Heckendorn, Rene Meier
  • Patent number: 4209516
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1980
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Roland Heckendorn, Rene Meier
  • Patent number: 4111950
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1978
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Andre Gagneux, Roland Heckendorn, Rene Meier
  • Patent number: 4045570
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Gunther Dorhofer, Roland Heckendorn, Erich Schmid, Angelo Storni, Armin Zust
  • Patent number: 4027029
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Andre Gagneux, Roland Heckendorn, Rene Meier
  • Patent number: 3988467
    Abstract: The invention relates to new aminoacyl compounds of the formula I, ##SPC1##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1976
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Gunther Dorhofer, Roland Heckendorn, Erich Schmid, Angelo Storni, Armin Zust
  • Patent number: 3943145
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1973
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1976
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Andre Gagneux, Roland Heckendorn, Rene Meier