Boron Or Silicon Containing Patents (Class 544/229)
  • Publication number: 20120270840
    Abstract: The invention provides boronic esters of Formula I wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are as described herein, and methods for the preparation and purification thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Cephalon Inc.
    Inventor: Renee Caroline Roemmele
  • Patent number: 8288381
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3, A1, A2, A3, A4 and D have the meaning described herein. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and therapeutic uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhonghua Pei, Joseph P. Lyssikatos, Kevin Hon Luen Lau, Wendy Lee, Kirk D. Robarge
  • Publication number: 20120259151
    Abstract: The present invention provides new pyridopyrazine compounds which are suitable for the treatment or prevention of physiological and/or pathophysiological states mediated and/or modulated by signal transduction pathways and/or enzymes in mammals and in particular in humans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: AETERNA ZENTARIS GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias GERLACH, Irene Seipelt, Lars Blumenstein, Gilbert Mueller, Eckhard Guenther, Tilmann Schuster, Michael Teifel
  • Publication number: 20120258927
    Abstract: This invention relates to compounds that inhibit E1 activating enzymes, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of using the compounds. The compounds are useful for treating disorders, particularly cell proliferation disorders, including cancers, inflammatory and neurodegenerative disorders; and inflammation associated with infection and cachexia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven P. Langston, Edward J. Olhava, Stepan Vyskocil
  • Patent number: 8283467
    Abstract: The invention relates to the synthesis of boronic ester and acid compounds. More particularly, the invention provides improved synthetic processes for the large-scale production of boronic ester and acid compounds, including the peptide boronic acid proteasome inhibitor bortezomib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
  • Publication number: 20120252758
    Abstract: Compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds are disclosed, wherein the compounds have the structure of Formula I as defined herein. Corresponding pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treatment, methods of synthesis, and intermediates are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Martin Youngjin Pettersson, Douglas Scott Johnson, Chakrapani Subramanyam, Christopher John O'Donnell, Christopher William Am Ende, Benjamin Adam Fish, Michael Eric Green, Patrick Bradley Mullins, Cory Michael Stiff, Tuan Phong Tran, Thayalan Navaratnam
  • Publication number: 20120252760
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel pyrido[2,3-b]pyrazine derivatives of the general formulae (I) and (II), and to their preparation and use as medicaments, especially for the treatment of malignant disorders and other disorders based on pathological cell proliferations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: ZENTARIS GmbH
    Inventors: Eckhard Claus, Irene Seipelt, Eckhard Guenther, Emmanuel Polymeropoulos, Michael Czech, Tilmann Schuster
  • Patent number: 8277775
    Abstract: The present invention relates to FTY720 analogs bearing a boron dipyrromethene difluoro (BODIPY) fluorophore in the alkyl side chain and methods of preparation. The compounds of the present invention can be used in fluorescence spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy and in chromatography using fluorescence detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: The Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    Inventors: Robert Bittman, Zaiguo Li
  • Publication number: 20120245125
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel chemical compounds, compositions and methods of making and using the same. In particular, the invention provides pyridazine compounds and/or related heterocyclic derivatives, compositions comprising the same, and methods of making and using pyridazine compounds and/or related heterocyclic derivatives and compositions comprising the same, for modulation of cellular pathways (e.g., signal transduction pathways), for treatment or prevention of inflammatory diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), for, research, drug screening, and therapeutic applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicants: Northwestern University
    Inventors: D. Martin Watterson, Linda Van Eldik, Jacques Haiech, Marcel Hibert, Jean-Jacques Bourguignon, Anastasia Velentza, Wenhui Hu, Magdalena Zasadzki
  • Publication number: 20120231017
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of the formula I or a stereoisomer, tautomer, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein each variable in Formula 1 are as defined in the specification; and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula I. Also disclosed are methods of inhibiting aspartyl protease, and in particular, the methods of treating cardiovascular diseases, cognitive and neurodegenerative diseases, and the methods of inhibiting of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, plasmepins, cathepsin D and protozoal enzymes. Also disclosed are methods of treating cognitive or neurodegenerative diseases using the compounds of formula I in combination with a cholinesterase inhibitor or a muscarinic m1 agonist or m2 antagonist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicants: Pharmacopeia Inc., Schering Corporation
    Inventors: ZHAONING ZHU, Brian McKittrick, Zhong-Yue Sun, Yuanzan C. Ye, Johannes H. Voigt, Corey O. Strickland, Elizabeth M. Smith, Andrew Stamford, William J. Greenlee, Robert D. Mozzola, John P. Caldwell, Jared N. Cumming, Lingyan Wang, Yusheng Wu, Ulrich Iserloh, Xiaoiang Liu, Tao Guo, Thuy X. E. Le, Kurt W. Sainoz, Suresh D. Babu, Rachael C. Hunter, Michelle L. Morris, Huizhong Gu, Gang Qian, Dawit Tadesse, Ying Huang, Guoqing Li, Jianping Pan, Jeffrey A. Misiaszek, Gaifa Lai, Jingqi Duo, Chuanxing Qu, Yuefei Shao
  • Publication number: 20120231993
    Abstract: The present invention relates in general to the field of organic chemistry and in particular to the preparation of ?-amino boronic acid derivatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: LEK PHARMACEUTICALS D.D.
    Inventors: Ivana Gazic Smilovic, Zdenko Casar
  • Patent number: 8263578
    Abstract: Multi-dose formulations for bortezomib are presented in which bortezomib has significantly improved stability. Especially preferred formulations include those in which bortezomib is in a liquid form suitable for injection, wherein the solvent system predominantly comprises propylene glycol. In other preferred aspects, bortezomib is present as a Lewis donor-acceptor complex with a hetero-bifunctional Lewis base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: InnoPharma, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumaresh Soppimath, Satish Pejaver, Kanaiyalal R. Patel, Lakkaraju Dasaradhi, Rama Sodum, Hari Desu, Navneet Puri
  • Publication number: 20120225844
    Abstract: In one aspect, the invention relates to bicyclic triazole and pyrazole lactams, derivatives thereof, and related compounds, which are useful as positive allosteric modulators of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5); synthetic methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction using the compounds and compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventors: P. Jeffrey Conn, Craig W. Lindsley, Shaun R. Stauffer, José Manuel Bartolomé-Nebreda, Susana Conde-Ceide, Gregor James Macdonald, Han Min Tong, Carrie K. Jones, Manuel Jesús Alcázar-Vaca, José Ignacio Andrés-Gil, Chrysa Malosh
  • Patent number: 8252797
    Abstract: Compounds of the present disclosure are fused pyrimidine compounds of formula (I), its tautomers, polymorphs, stereoisomers, prodrugs, solvate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, as Adenosine receptor antagonists. Processes of their preparation are also described in the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd.
    Inventors: Venkata Palle, Sujay Basu, Yogesh Waman, Vidya Ramdas, Dinesh Barawkar, Meena Patel, Anil Panmand
  • Publication number: 20120214762
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds of Formula I: wherein A, Y, R1, R2 and the subscript b each has the meaning as described herein and compounds of Formula I, and stereoisomers, geometric isomers, tautomers, solvates, metabolites, isotopes, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, or prodrugs thereof. Compounds of Formula I and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are useful in the treatment of disease and disorders in which undesired or over-activation of NF-kB signaling is observed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Staben, Jianwen Feng, Pui Leng Loke, Christian A.G.N. Montalbetti
  • Publication number: 20120213701
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for the enzyme-mediated, site-specific, in-vivo precipitation of a water soluble molecule in an animal. The enzyme is either unique to tumor cells, or is produced within a specific site (e.g., tumor) at concentrations that are higher than that in normal tissues. Alternatively, the enzyme is conjugated to a targeting moiety such as an antibody or a receptor-binding molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Amin I. Kassis, Ravi S. Harapanhalli
  • Publication number: 20120214765
    Abstract: Compounds and methods of treating anti-inflammatory conditions are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Akama, Yong-Kang Zhang, Charles Z. Ding, Jacob J. Plattner, Kirk R. Maples, Yvonne Freund, Virginia Sanders, Yi Xia, Stephen J. Baker, James A. Nieman, Xiaosong Lu, Marcelo Sales, Rashmi Sharma, Rajeshwar Singh, Robert T. Jacobs, Daitao Chen, Michael Richard Kevin Alley
  • Publication number: 20120206037
    Abstract: Provided are a novel organic electroluminescent compound and an organic electroluminescent device using the same. When used as a host material of an organic electroluminescent material of an OLED device, the organic electroluminescent compound disclosed herein exhibits good luminous efficiency and excellent life property as compared to the existing host material. Therefore, it may be used to manufacture OLEDs having very superior operation life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Korea Ltd
    Inventors: Soo Young Lee, Young Gil Kim, Youngg Jun Cho, Hyuck Joo Kwon, Bong Ok Kim, Sung Min Kim, Seung Soo Yoon
  • Publication number: 20120202775
    Abstract: Compounds having drug and bio-affecting properties are described herein, including their properties, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use. In particular, tricyclic aryl or heteroaryl piperazine diamide derivatives that possess unique antiviral activity are set forth. These compounds are useful for the treatment of HIV and AIDS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventors: Tao Wang, Zhongxing Zhang, Zhiwei Yin, John F. Kadow, Nicholas A. Meanwell
  • Publication number: 20120197013
    Abstract: Provided herein are novel sirtuin-modulating compounds and methods of use thereof. The sirtuin-modulating compounds may be used for increasing the lifespan of a cell, and treating and/or preventing a wide variety of diseases and disorders including, for example, diseases or disorders related to aging or stress, diabetes, obesity, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular disease, blood clotting disorders, inflammation, cancer, and/or flushing as well as diseases or disorders that would benefit from increased mitochondrial activity. Also provided are compositions comprising a sirtuin-modulating compound in combination with another therapeutic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Nunes, Jill Milne, Jean Bemis, Roger Xie, Chi B. Vu, Pui Yee Ng, Jeremy S. Disch
  • Publication number: 20120190549
    Abstract: 6-Amino-2-substituted-5-vinylsilylpyrimidine-4-carboxylates and 4-amino-6-substituted-3-vinylsilylpyridine-picolinates and their amine and acid derivatives are potent herbicides demonstrating a broad spectrum of weed control
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Joseph D. Eckelbarger, Jeffrey B. Epp, Paul R. Schmitzer
  • Publication number: 20120184508
    Abstract: Compounds of formula and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are described, as well as the pharmaceutical compositions containing said compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and the use of said compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment, control or amelioration of proliferative diseases, including cancer, Down syndrome or early onset Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Wenjian Liu, Kin-Chun Luk, Xiaohu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20120184509
    Abstract: A kind of new compounds, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and hydrates are disclosed. The pharmaceutical composition thereof is also provided. And also are the medical uses of the compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates and the pharmaceutical composition for treating the TRPV1-mediate diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventor: Qun Sun
  • Publication number: 20120178928
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes: a pair of electrodes; and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer, the light emitting layer being provided between the pair of electrodes, wherein at least one layer of the at least one organic layer contains a compound represented by formula (1): wherein each of Z11 and Z12 independently represents an aromatic heterocyclic ring or an aromatic hydrocarbon ring; R11 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that a plurality of R11s are the same or different; m represents an integer of 1 or more; and L1 represents a single bond or an m-valent linking group and is linked to any one of C atoms in R11, Z11 and Z12, provided that when m is 1, L1 does not exist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Eiji FUKUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20120171116
    Abstract: The present invention includes arginase enzyme inhibitors, compositions comprising these arginase inhibitors, and methods of treating or diagnosing conditions characterized either by abnormally high arginase activity or abnormally low nitric oxide levels in a mammal, comprising administering compositions of the invention to the mammal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Bruce Edward Tomczuk, Gary Lee Olson, Richard Scott Pottorf, Jane Wang, Bhaskara Rao Nallaganchu
  • Publication number: 20120171665
    Abstract: Novel fluorescent markers of Formula I: are disclosed herein, wherein X and Y are independently or together absent or are independently selected from R and R1 are independently selected from H and alkyl; Ar is phenyl or heteroaryl; L is absent or a spacer selected from the group consisting of —NH—; —(CH2)nNH—; —NHSO2—; —(CH2)nNHCO—; -(cycloalkyl)NHCO—; —(CH2)nNHSO2—; -(cycloalkyl)NHSO2—; —CONH(CH2)nNHCO—; —CONH(cycloalkyl)NHCO—; —NHCO(CH2)nNHCO—; —NHCO(cycloalkyl)NHCO—; —(CH2)nSO2NH—; -(cycloalkyl)SO2NH—; —(CH2)nNHCSNH—; -(cycloalkyl)NHCSNH—; —CR?CR1—; —C?C—; —(CH2)nN?CH—; -(cycloalkyl)N?CH—; —N?CH(CH2)—; —N?CH(cycloalkyl)-; n is an integer ranging from 1 to 5; F is a fluorophore selected from the group consisting of fluorescein, rhodamine, eosin, thionine, safranin, coumarin, methoxycoumarin, dansyl, BODIPY and BODIPY derivatives; and wherein X, Y and L may be positioned in a 1,3,5; 1,2,3; 1,3,4 or in a 3,4,5 configuration respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL
    Inventors: Jeffrey Keillor, Karine Caron
  • Publication number: 20120149662
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula (I): or a salt thereof as described herein. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula (I), processes for preparing compounds of formula (I), intermediates useful for preparing compounds of formula (I) and therapeutic methods for suppressing an immune response or treating cancer or a hematologic malignancy using compounds of formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yarlagadda S. Babu, Pravin L. Kotian, V. Satish Kumar, Minwan Wu, Tsu-Hsing Lin
  • Patent number: 8193350
    Abstract: A novel fluorescent compound having a high light fastness, high fluorescence quantum yield and sharp absorption spectrum, which emits fluorescence having a wavelength in long wavelength region, as well as its use as a labeling agent, is disclosed. In Formula [I] below, by forming a specific hetero ring(s) with R1 and R2, and/or R6 and R7, shift of the wavelength of the fluorescence to longer wavelength and increase in molar extinction coefficient are attained maintaining the high light fastness, high fluorescence quantum yield and sharp absorption spectrum which the fluorescent dyes having the boron dipyrromethene skeleton have.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Keio University
    Inventors: Koji Suzuki, Keitaro Umezawa, Hiroshi Makino, Daniel Citterio
  • Publication number: 20120135958
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula (I), where: A is a bond, an oxygen, or an —CH2— group; Ar1 is a phenyl or heteroaryl group; Ar2 is a phenyl, heteroaryl, or heterocycloalkyl group; R1a,b,c and R2a,b,c are hydrogen or halogen, or an alkyl, cycloalkyl, or lkyl-cycloalkyl group optionally, substituted by one or more halogen atoms, or a —OR5 (hydroxy or alkoxy), hydroxy-alkyl, alkoxy-alkyl, alkoxy-alkoxy, halogenoalkyl, —O-halogenoalkyl, oxo, —CO-alkyl, —CO-alkyl-NR6R7, —CO-halogenoalkyl, —COOR5, alkyl-COOR5, —O-alkyl-COOR5, —SO2-alkyl, —SO2-cycloalkyl, —SO2-alkyl-cycloalkyl, —SO2-alkyl-OR5, —SO2-alkyl-COOR5, —SO2-alkyl-NR6R7, —SO2-halogenoalkyl, alkyl-SO2-alkyl, —SO2—NR6R7, —SO2-alkyl-O-alkyl-OR5, —CONR6R7, -alkyl-CONR6R7, or -alkyl-NR6R7 group, or further R1a, R1b, and R1c are bonded to R2a, R2b, R2c, respectively, and to the carbon atom having same, and are -alkyl-O—; R3 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R4 is a hydrogen or halogen atom or a cyano, —OR5, hydroxyalkyl, —COOR5, —NR6R7, ONR6R7, —
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: SANOFI
    Inventors: Claudie Namane, Eric Nicolai, Francois Pacquet, Cecile Pascal, Olivier Venier
  • Publication number: 20120136150
    Abstract: Novel 4-(3-butynyl)aminopyrimidine derivatives represented by general formula [I] are useful as pest control agents. In general formula [I], R1 is a mono- or bi-cyclic ring which may contain 0 to 3 heteroatoms, for example, phenyl or oxazolyl; R2 is a hydrogen atom, —R, —OR, —C(O)OR, —C(O)NHR, —CONR2 (wherein R is straight-chain or branched C1-8 alkyl, or the like), hydroxyalkyl, or the like; R3 is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, acyloxy represented by (straight-chain or branched C1-8 aliphatic hydrocarbon group) —CO—O—, or the like; and R4 is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, C1-6 alkyl, or the like, or alternatively, R4 and R3 together with the carbon atoms on the pyrimidine ring may form a thiophene ring, a pyrrole ring, an imidazole ring, a benzene ring, a pyrimidine ring, a furan ring, a pyrazine ring, or a pyrrolidine ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: SDS BIOTECH K.K.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sakai, Tomoaki Matsumura, Satohiro Midorikawa, Takashi Nomoto, Ryutaro Katsuki, Tomoko Muraki
  • Publication number: 20120129806
    Abstract: Compounds according to Formula I are potent inhibitors of Arginase I and II activity: where R1, R2, R3, R4, D, W, X, Y, and Z are defined in the specification. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions of the compounds and methods of their use in treating or preventing a disease or a condition associated with arginase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Michael Van Zandt, Gunnar Erik Jagdmann, JR.
  • Publication number: 20120126221
    Abstract: A charge-transporting material contains a compound represented by the following formula (1) in an organic layer, in which the contents of specific halogen-containing compounds are 0.1% or less to the compound represented by formula (1). In formula (1), each of A1 and A2 independently represents N, —CH or —CR; R represents a substituent; L represents a single bond, an arylene group, a cycloalkylene group or an aromatic heterocyclic group; each of R1 to R5 independently represents a substituent; each of n1, n2 and n3 independently represents an integer of 0 to 4; each of n4 and n5 independently represents an integer of 0 to 5; and each of p and q independently represents an integer of 1 to 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsu Kitamura, Toru Watanabe, Toshihiro Ise, Hiroo Takizawa
  • Patent number: 8178669
    Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula (I): {R1, R3, R6 and R8 are methyl groups and the like, R2 and R7 are cyano groups and the like, R4 and R5 are fluorine atoms and the like, and X is a group represented by the formula (A) [R11 is a monocarboxy-substituted C1-8 alkoxy group and the like, R12, R14 and R15 are hydrogen atoms and the like, and R13 is hydroxy group and the like], provided that the combination of the aforementioned substituents is such a combination that the compound represented by the formula (I) can be substantially non-fluorescent before reacting with peroxynitrite, and the compound represented by the formula (I) in which the group represented by the formula (A) is nitrated after reacting with peroxynitrite can be substantially highly fluorescent}, or a salt thereof, which is useful as a fluorescent probe for peroxynitrite measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Tetsuo Nagano, Yasuteru Urano, Tasuku Ueno
  • Publication number: 20120097935
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds of the formula (I) wherein R1 and R1? independently of each other are H or a substituent, halogen or SiR6R4R5; R2 and R2? may be the same or different and are selected from C1-C25alkyl, C3-C12-cycloalkyl, C2-C25alkenyl, C2-C25alkynyl, C4-C25aryl, C5-C25alkylaryl or C5-C25aralkyl, each of which is unsubstituted or substituted, and under conditions as defined in claim 1, R2 and/or R2? may also be halogen or hydrogen; X is a divalent linking group selected from formula (Ia) and formula (Ib); Y and Y? independently are selected from formula (Ic), formula (Id), formula (Ie), formula (If), formula (Ig); n and p independently range from 0 to 6; where further symbols are as defined in claim 1, and to corresponding oligomers and (co)polymers. The compounds according to the invention are useful as semiconductors and have excellent solubility in organic solvents and excellent film-forming properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Hans Jürg Kirner, Natalia Chebotareva, Olivier Frédéric Aebischer
  • Publication number: 20120094957
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or prodrugs thereof, or mixtures thereof, wherein Z1, Z2, X1, X2, X3, R1, R2 R3, m and n are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutically acceptable compositions that include a compound of formula I and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. Also provided are methods for treating FAAH-mediated disorders comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound or composition of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Alfredo C. Castro, Michael J. Grogan, Daniel A. Snyder
  • Patent number: 8158624
    Abstract: Purine compounds of Formula I, and including stereoisomers, geometric isomers, tautomers, solvates, metabolites and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are useful for inhibiting lipid kinases including p110 alpha and other isoforms of PI3K, and for treating disorders such as cancer mediated by lipid kinases. Methods of using compounds of Formula I for in vitro, in situ, and in vivo diagnosis, prevention or treatment of such disorders in mammalian cells, or associated pathological conditions, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Genetech, Inc.
    Inventors: Georgette Castanedo, Irina Chuckowree, Adrian Folkes, Daniel P. Sutherlin, Nan Chi Wan
  • Publication number: 20120087960
    Abstract: A cationic compatible metal oxide and oral care compositions containing the metal oxide are disclosed. Preferably, the oral care compositions contain a cationic compatable metal oxide and a cationic ingredient, such as for example, a cationic antibacterial agent such as cetyl pyridinium chloride (“CPC”). The cationic compatible metal oxide, e.g. silica, comprise metal oxide particles having a subtantially negative surface charge and a vitamin deposited onto or reacted with the surface of the metal oxide particles in an amount sufficient to provide a substantially positive surface charge on the metal oxide particle. Processes for making and using the vitamin modified metal oxide in oral care compositions are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventor: James George Miller
  • Publication number: 20120083469
    Abstract: Compounds according to Formula I and Formula II are potent inhibitors of Arginase I and II activity: where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, D, M, X, and Y are defined as set forth in the specification. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions of the compounds and methods of their use for treating or preventing a disease or a condition associated with arginase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Michael Van Zandt, Adam Golebiowski, Min Koo Ji, Darren Whitehouse, Todd Ryder, Paul Beckett
  • Patent number: 8148443
    Abstract: The present invention relates to oxonium salts having [(Ro)3O]+ cations and sulfonium salts having [(Ro)3S]+ cations, where Ro denotes straight-chain or branched alkyl groups having 1-8 C atoms or phenyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by Ro, ORo, N(Ro)2, CN or halogen, and anions selected from the group of [PFx(CyF2y+1?xHz)6?x]? anions, where 2?x?5, 1?y?8 and 0?z?2y+1, or anions selected from the group of [BFn(CN)4?n]? anions, where n=0, 1, 2 or 3, or anions selected from the group of [(Rf1SO2)2N]? anions or anions selected from the group of [BFWRf24?w]? anions, to processes for the preparation thereof, and to the use thereof, in particular for the preparation of ionic liquids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, German Bissky, Helge Willner
  • Publication number: 20120077801
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of a formula (I): wherein the variables are defined herein; to a process for preparing such a compound; and to the use of such a compound in the treatment of a PDE4 mediated disease state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Roger Victor Bonnert, Rhona Jane Cox, Simon De Sousa, Mark Dickinson, Simon Fraser Hunt, Austen Pimm, Hitesh Jayantilal Sanganee, Frank Burkamp, Premji Meghani
  • Publication number: 20120065149
    Abstract: The invention describes a vitamin receptor binding drug delivery conjugate, and preparations therefor. The drug delivery conjugate consists of a vitamin receptor binding moiety, a bivalent linker (L), and a drug. The vitamin receptor binding moiety includes vitamins, and vitamin receptor binding analogs and derivatives thereof, and the drug includes analogs and derivatives thereof. The vitamin receptor binding moiety is covalently linked to the bivalent linker, and the drug, or the analog or the derivative thereof, is covalently linked to the bivalent linker, wherein the bivalent linker (L) includes components such as spacer linkers, releasable linkers, and heteroatom linkers, and combinations thereof. Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for eliminating pathogenic cell populations using the drug delivery conjugate are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Iontcho R. Vlahov, Christopher P. Leamon, Matthew A. Parker, Stephen J. Howard, Hari Krishna Santhapuram, Apparao Satyam, Joseph Anand Reddy
  • Publication number: 20120065366
    Abstract: Macrocyclization of amino acids or linear peptides upon reaction with amphoteric amino aldehydes and isocyanides is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    Inventors: Andrei Yudin, Ryan Hili
  • Publication number: 20120041196
    Abstract: The present invention provides boronic acid compounds, boronic esters, and compositions thereof that can modulate apoptosis such as by inhibition of proteasome activity. The compounds and compositions can be used in methods of inducing apoptosis and treating diseases such as cancer and other disorders associated directly of indirectly with proteasome activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: CEPHALON, INC.
    Inventors: Raffaella Bernardini, Alberto Bernareggi, Paolo G. Cassará, Sankar Chatterjee, Germano D'Arasmo, Sergio De Munari, Edmondo Ferretti, Mohamed Iqbal, Ernesto Menta, Patricia A. Messina McLaughlin, Ambrogio Oliva
  • Publication number: 20120040932
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are antimicrobial compounds compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, the use and preparation thereof. Some embodiments relate to 1 cyclic boronic acid ester derivatives and their use as therapeutic agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: Rempex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin Hirst, Raja Reddy, Scott Hecker, Maxim Totrov, David C. Griffith, Olga Rodny, Michael N. Dudley, Serge Boyer
  • Publication number: 20120041193
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are vinyl-bromides, vinyl-boronic acids and vinyl-boronic acid derivatives useful as synthetic intermediates for the preparation of therapeutic agents. Also disclosed are methods of synthesis of vinyl-bromides, vinyl-boronic acids and vinyl-boronic acid derivatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: Frontier Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Shivanand K. Math, Homayoun H. Mokri, James B. LaMunyon, Dustin R. Cefalo, Charles A. Testa
  • Publication number: 20120040933
    Abstract: piperazine compounds for use as pharmaceutically active compounds and in pharmaceutical formulations that are useful for the treatment of disorders associated with apoptosis, including neurodegenerative disorders, diseases associated with polyglutamine tracts, epilepsy, ischemia, infertility, cardiovascular disorders, renal hypoxia, hepatitis and AIDS, where the piperazine compounds are represented by formula (I) and the terms R0, R1, R2, R3, k, l, m, n, and X are defined herein:
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: APPLIED RESEARCH SYSTEMS ARS HOLDING N.V.
    Inventors: Serge HALAZY, Dennis Church, Bruno Antonsson, Agnes Bombrun, Patrick Gerber, Jean-Claude Martinou
  • Patent number: 8101588
    Abstract: Provided herein are Aminopurine Compounds having the following structure: wherein R1, R2 and R3 are as defined herein, compositions comprising an effective amount of an Aminopurine Compound and methods for treating or preventing cancer, a cardiovascular disease, a renal disease, an autoimmune condition, an inflammatory condition, macular degeneration, ischemia-reperfusion injury, pain and related syndromes, disease-related wasting, an asbestos-related condition, pulmonary hypertension or a condition treatable or preventable by inhibition of the JNK pathway comprising administering an effective amount of an Aminopurine Compound to a patient in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Signal Pharmaceuticals, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald J. Albers, Leticia Ayala, Steven S. Clareen, Maria Mercedes Delgado Mederos, Robert Hilgraf, Sayee G. Hegde, Kevin Hughes, Adam Kois, Veronique Plantevin-Krenitsky, Meg McCarrick, Lisa Nadolny, Moorthy S. S. Palanki, Kiran Sahasrabudhe, John Sapienza, Yoshitaka Satoh, Marianne K. Sloss, Elise Sudbeck, Jonathan Wright
  • Publication number: 20110306560
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for reducing the rate of degradation of proteins in an animal, comprising contacting cells of the animal with certain boronic ester and acid compounds. Also disclosed herein are novel boronic ester and acid compounds, their synthesis and uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Julian Adams, Yu-Tung Ma, Ross Stein, Matthew Baevsky, Louis Grenier, Louis Plamondon
  • Publication number: 20110300116
    Abstract: A method for generating a recombinant clonal cell line expressing a target cell surface receptor at a specific level of expression from a cell population comprising cells transfected with a plasmid encoding the cDNA sequence of the target receptor and expressing the target cell surface receptor, the method comprising (c) incubating the cell population with a receptor specific fluorescent ligand (d) selecting single cells from step (c) expressing the target cell surface receptor by monitoring the specific binding of the fluorescent ligand using flow cytometry; and novel fluorescent ligands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: CELLAURA TECHNOLOGIES LTD
    Inventors: Stephen John Hill, Barrie Kellam, Richard John Middleton
  • Publication number: 20110293852
    Abstract: This invention relates to organometallic precursor compounds represented by the formula (H)mM(R)n wherein M is a metal or metalloid, R is the same or different and is a substituted or unsubstituted, saturated or unsaturated, heterocyclic radical containing at least one nitrogen atom, m is from 0 to a value less than the oxidation state of M, n is from 1 to a value equal to the oxidation state of M, and m+n is a value equal to the oxidation state of M, a process for producing the organometallic precursor compounds, and a method for producing a film or coating from the organometallic precursor compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventor: Scott Houston Meiere