Additional Hetero Ring Which Is Unsaturated Patents (Class 544/324)
  • Patent number: 6878717
    Abstract: This invention concerns the use of compounds of formula: the N-oxides, the pharmaceutically acceptable addition salts, quaternary amines and the stereochemically isomeric forms thereof, wherein -a1=-a2-a3=a4- forms a phenyl, pyridinyl, pyrimidinyl, pyridazinyl or pyrazinyl with the attached vinyl group; n is 0 to 4; and where possible 5; R1 is hydrogen, aryl, formyl, C1-6alkylcarbonyl, C1-6alkyl, C1-6alkyloxy-carbonyl, substituted C1-6alkyl, or substituted C1-6alkyloxyC1-6alkylcarbonyl; each R2 independently is hydroxy, halo, optionally substituted C1-6alkyl, C2-6alkenyl or C2-6alkynyl, C3-7cycloalkyl, C1-6alkyloxy, C1-6alkyloxycarbonyl, carboxyl, cyano, nitro, amino, mono- or di(C1-6alkyl)amino, polyhalomethyl, polyhalomethyloxy, polyhalo-methylthio, —S(?O)pR6, —NH—S(?O)pR6, —C(?O)R6, —NHC(?O)H, —C(?O)NHNH2, —NHC(?O)R6, —C(?NH)R6 or a 5-membered heterocyclic ring; p is 1 or 2; L is optionally substituted C1-10alkyl, C2-10alkenyl, C2-10alkynyl or C3-7cycloalkyl; or L is —X—R3 wherein R3 is optionally subs
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Inventors: Bart De Corte, Marc Rene De Jonge, Jan Heeres, Chih Yung Ho, Paul Adriaan Jan Janssen, Robert W. Kavash, Lucien Maria Henricus Koymans, Michael Joseph Kukla, Donald William Ludovici, Koen Jeanne Alfons Van Aken
  • Patent number: 6875772
    Abstract: Compounds having the structural formula I wherein: n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; A is C(R1) or N; R1 and R1a are H, (C1-C6)-alkyl, halo, CN or —CF3; X is —C(O)—, —O—, —SO0-2—, or optionally substituted methylene, imino, arylene or heteroaryldiyl; Y is —O—, —SO0-2—, or optionally substituted arylene, heteroaryldiyl, or nitrogen-containing heterocycloalkyl, or with certain provisos, a bond; R is optionally substituted-aryl or heteroaryl; and R2 is optionally substituted aryl, heteroaryl, arylalkyl or heteroarylalkyl; or R2—Y is a fused piperidinyl, substituted piperazinyl or substituted piperidinyl; their use in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, alone or in combination with other agents for treating Parkinson's disease, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and kits comprising the components of the combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Schering Corporation
    Inventors: Bernard R. Neustadt, Hong Liu
  • Patent number: 6870053
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain novel pyrimidine intermediates and their salts, processes for their preparation and processes for their conversion to 9-substituted-2-aminopurines which are useful in medical therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Susan Mary Daluge, Michelle Joanne Fugett, Michael Tolar Martin
  • Patent number: 6864263
    Abstract: N-Heterocyclic derivatives of the formula (I): are described herein, as well as other N-heterocycles, as inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase. Pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, methods of using these compounds as inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase and processes for synthesizing these compounds are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignees: Berlex Laboratories, Inc., Pharmacopeia Drug Discovery, Inc.
    Inventors: Damian O. Arnaiz, John J. Baldwin, David D. Davey, James J. Devlin, Roland Ellwood Dolle, III, Shawn David Erickson, Kirk McMillan, Michael M. Morrissey, Michael H. J. Ohlmeyer, Gonghua Pan, Vidyadhar Madhav Paradkar, John Parkinson, Gary B. Phillips, Bin Ye, Zuchun Zhao
  • Patent number: 6864368
    Abstract: N-Heterocyclic derivatives of the formula (I): are described herein, as well as other N-heterocycles, as inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase. Pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, methods of using these compounds as inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase and processes for synthesizing these compounds are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignees: Berlax Laboratories, Inc., Pharmacopeia Drug Discovery, Inc.
    Inventors: Damian O. Arnaiz, John J. Baldwin, David D. Davey, James J. Devlin, Roland Ellwood Dolle, III, Shawn David Erickson, Kirk McMillan, Michael M. Morrissey, Michael H. J. Ohlmeyer, Gonghua Pan, Vidyadhar Madhav Paradkar, John Parkinson, Gary B. Phillips, Bin Ye, Zuchun Zhao
  • Patent number: 6852739
    Abstract: The present invention describes novel nitrosated and/or nitrosylated proton pump inhibitor compounds, and novel compositions comprising at least one proton pump inhibitor compound that is optionally substituted with at least one NO and/or N02 group, and, optionally, at least one compound that donates, transfers or releases nitric oxide, stimulates endogenous synthesis of nitric oxide, elevates endogenous levels of endothelium-derived relaxing factor or is a substrate for nitric oxide synthase, and/or at least one nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug, selective COX-2 inhibitor, antacid, bismuth-containing reagent, acid-degradable antibacterial compound, and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: Nitromed Inc.
    Inventors: David S. Garvey, L. Gordon Letts, Sang William Tam
  • Patent number: 6846829
    Abstract: N-Heterocyclic derivatives of the formula (I): are described herein, as well as other N-heterocycles, as inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase. Pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, methods of using these compounds as inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase and processes for synthesizing these compounds are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignees: Berlex Laboratories, Inc., Pharmacopeia Drug Discovery, Inc.
    Inventors: Damian O. Arnaiz, John J. Baldwin, David D. Davey, James J. Devlin, Roland Ellwood Dolle, III, Shawn David Erickson, Kirk McMillan, Michael M. Morrissey, Michael H. J. Ohlmeyer, Gonghua Pan, Vidyadhar Madhav Paradkar, John Parkinson, Gary B. Phillips, Bin Ye, Zuchun Zhao
  • Patent number: 6841674
    Abstract: N-Heterocyclic derivatives of the formula (I): are described herein, as well as other N-heterocycles, as inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase. Pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, methods of using these compounds as inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase and processes for synthesizing these compounds are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignees: Berlex Laboratories, Inc., Pharmacopeia Drug Discovery, Inc.
    Inventors: Damian O. Arnaiz, John J. Baldwin, David D. Davey, James J. Devlin, Roland Ellwood Dolle, III, Shawn David Erickson, Kirk McMillan, Michael M. Morrissey, Michael H. J. Ohlmeyer, Gonghua Pan, Vidyadhar Madhav Paradkar, John Parkinson, Gary B. Phillips, Bin Ye, Zuchun Zhao
  • Patent number: 6838464
    Abstract: Pyrimidine derivatives of formula (I) wherein Q1, Q2, G and R1 are as defined within; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and in vivo hydrolysable esters thereof are described. Processes for their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions and their use as cyclin-dependent serine/threonine kinase (CDK) and focal adhesion kinase (FAK) inhibitors are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Elizabeth Janet Pease, Emma Jane Williams, Robert Hugh Bradbury, Stuart Eric Pearson
  • Patent number: 6838414
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel substituted arylsulphonyl(thio)ureas in which A represents nitrogen or a CH grouping, Q represents oxygen or sulphur, R1 represents hydrogen, halogen or respectively optionally substituted alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkylamino, dialkylamino, cycloalkyl, cycloalkyloxy or heterocyclyloxy, R2 represents hydrogen, halogen or respectively optionally substituted alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkylamino, dialkylamino, cycloalkyl, cycloalkyloxy or heterocyclyloxy, R3 represents hydrogen or optionally substituted alkyl, R4 represents respectively optionally substituted alkyl, alkoxy, alkenyl, alkinyl, alkenyloxy, alkinyloxy, cycloalkyl, cycloalkyloxy or cycloalkylalkyl, and R5 represents hydrogen, formyl or respectively optionally substituted alkyl, alkylcarbonyl, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylsulphonyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylcarbonyl, cycloalkylsulphonyl or heterocyclyl, and to salts of compounds of the formula (I), except for the compound N-(4,6-dimethyl-pyrimidin-2-yl)-N?-[
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ernst Rudolf F. Gesing, Rolf Kirsten, Joachim Kluth, Klaus-Helmut Müller, Mark Wilhelm Drewes, Johannes Rudolf Jansen, Ulrich Philipp, Hans-Jochem Riebel, Otto Schallner, Markus Dollinger, Hans-Joachim Santel
  • Publication number: 20040242614
    Abstract: The present invention relates to dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors having an aromatic group and a heteroaromatic group linked by a methylene group; and methods of treatment and pharmaceutical compositions that utilize or comprise one or more of such dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Applicant: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Inventors: Andre Rosowsky, Ronald A. Forsch
  • Publication number: 20040242578
    Abstract: Pyrimidine derivatives, which are useful as VEGFR2 inhibitors are described herein. The described invention also includes methods of making such pyrimidine derivatives as well as methods of using the same in the treatment of hyperproliferative diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Amogh Boloor, Mui Cheung, Ronda Davis, Philip Amthony Harris, Kevin Hinkle, Robert Anthony Mook, Jeffrey Alan Stafford, James Marvin Veal
  • Patent number: 6818649
    Abstract: This invention is concerned with substituted chromene derivatives of the general formula (I) in which R1-R4 are as defined in the specification and claims. The invention further relates to the pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts of these compounds, their use as therapeutically active substances; medicaments based on these substances, optionally in combination with sulphonamides, and their production; the use of these substances as medicaments and for the production of antibacterially-active medicaments; as well as the manufacture of the compounds of formula (I) and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts and intermediates for their manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Basilea Pharmaceutica AG
    Inventors: Peter Mohr, Philippe Pflieger
  • Patent number: 6815447
    Abstract: Compounds useful for the treatment of pain in accord with the following structural diagram, wherein R1, R2 and R3 are any of a number of groups as defined in the specification and pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment utilising such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Astrazeneca AB
    Inventors: Bipinchandra Chaudhari, Marc Chapdelaine, Greg Hostetler, Lucius Kemp, John McCauley
  • Patent number: 6809102
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The formula I compounds induce mitotic arrest thereby making them useful as anti-cancer agents. The formula I compounds are also useful for the treatment of other diseases which can be treated by inducing mitotic arrest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Spencer David Kimball, Louis J. Lombardo, David B. Rawlins, Hai-Yun Xiao, Robert J. Schmidt, David K. Williams
  • Publication number: 20040186118
    Abstract: This invention relates to pyrimidine derivatives of general formula (I) as inhibitors of kinases, their production as well as their use as medications for treating various diseases
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Judi Bryant, Monica J. Kochanny, Shendong Yuan, Seock-Kyu Khim, Brad O. Buckman, Damian O. Arnaiz, Ulf Bomer, Hans Briem, Peter Esperling, Christoph Huwe, Joachim Kuhnke, Martina Schafer, Lars Wortmann, Dirk Kosemund, Emil Eckle, Richard J. Feldman, Gary B. Phillips
  • Patent number: 6787539
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of the formula wherein R1 is lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, pyridinyl, pyrimidinyl, phenyl, —S-lower alkyl, —S(O)2-lower alkyl, —N(R)—(CH2)n—N(R)2, —O—(CH2)n—N(R)2, —N(R)2, or a cyclic tertiary amine of the group which may contain one additional heteroatom, selected from N, O or S, and wherein this group may be connected with the pyrimidine ring via the linker —O(CH2)n—; R2 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halogen or trifluoromethyl; R3/R3′ is, independently from each other, hydrogen or lower alkyl; R4 is independently from each other halogen, trifluoromethyl or lower alkoxy; R5 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R is, independently from each other, hydrogen or lower alkyl; X is —C(O)N(R)— or —N(R)C(O)—; Y is —O—, —S—, —SO2—, - or —N(R)—; n is 1,2,3 or 4; and m is 0,1 or 2; or a pharmaceutic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventor: Heinz Stadler
  • Publication number: 20040171832
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel pyrazol pyridine derivatives of formula (I), wherein R1 signifies a radical of formula —O—SO2—R3, R3 represents a radical from the group consisting of optionally substituted C1-6-alkyl, optionally substituted C3-8-cycloalkyl, or optionally substituted phenyl, R2 represents H or optionally substituted C1-6-alkyl-SO2—; in addition to the salts, isomers and hydrates thereof, as stimulators of soluble guanylate cyclase, and to the use thereof as agents for treating cardio-vascular diseases, hypertonia, thromboembolic diseases and ischaemia, sexual dysfunction or inflammations and for treating diseases of the central nervous system 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Johannes- Peter Stasch, Achim Feurer, Stefan Weigand, Elke Stahl, Dietmar Flubacher, Cristina Alonso-Alija, Frank Wunder, Dieter Lang, Klaus Dembowsky, Alexander Straub, Elisabeth Perzborn
  • Publication number: 20040162303
    Abstract: Novel 4-aminopyrimidine-5-one derivatives are disclosed. These compounds inhibit cyclin-dependent kinases, in particular cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (Cdk4). These compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters have antiproliferative activity and are useful in the treatment or control of cancer, in particular solid tumors. This invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and to methods of treating or controlling cancer, most particularly the treatment or control of breast, lung, colon and prostate tumors. Also disclosed are intermediates useful in the preparation of these novel 4-aminopyrimidine-5-one derivatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventors: David Joseph Bartkovitz, Xin-Jie Chu, Qingjie Ding, Nan Jiang, Allen John Lovey, John Anthony Moliterni, John Guilfoyle Mullin, Binh Thanh Vu, Peter Michael Wovkulich
  • Publication number: 20040138243
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds which bind &agr;4 integrins, preferably VLA-4. Certain of these compounds also inhibit leukocyte adhesion and, in particular, leukocyte adhesion mediated by &agr;4 integrins, preferably VLA-4. Such compounds are useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases in a mammalian patient, e.g., human, such as asthma, Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, AIDS dementia, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, tissue transplantation, tumor metastasis and myocardial ischemia. The compounds can also be administered for the treatment of inflammatory brain diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Andrei W. Konradi, Christopher M. Semko, Ying-zi Xu, Frank Stappenbeck, Brian P. Stupi, Jenifer L. Smith, Michael A. Pleiss, Eugene D. Thorsett
  • Patent number: 6756380
    Abstract: Compounds of the general formula are described: wherein R1 is hydrogen or halogen; R2 is hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy; R3 is halogen, trifluoromethyl, lower alkoxy or lower alkyl; R4/R4′are each independently hydrogen or lower alkyl; R5 is lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, amino, hydroxy, hydroxy-lower alkyl, —(CH2)n-piperazinyl, optionally substituted by lower alkyl, —(CH2)n-morpholinyl, —(CH2)n+1-imidazolyl, —O—(CH2)n+1-morpholinyl, —O—(CH2)n+1-piperidinyl, lower alkyl-sulfanyl, lower alkyl-sulfonyl, benzylamino, —NH—(CH2)n+1N(R4″)2, —(CH2)n—NH—(CH2)n+1N(R4″)2, —(CH2)n+1N(R4″)2, or —O—(CH2)n+1N(R4″)2, wherein R4″ is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R6 is hydrogen; R2 and R6 or R1 and R6 may together be —CH═CH—CH═CH—, wherein R2 and R6 or R1 and R6, respectively, together with the two carbon rin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Bös, Guido Galley, Thierry Godel, Torsten Hoffmann, Walter Hunkeler, Patrick Schnider, Heinz Stadler
  • Patent number: 6747031
    Abstract: N-Heterocyclic derivatives of the formula (I): are described herein, as well as other N-heterocycles, as inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase. Pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, methods of using these compounds as inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase and processes for synthesizing these compounds are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignees: Berlex Laboratories, Inc., Pharmacopeia, Inc.
    Inventors: Damian O. Arnaiz, John J. Baldwin, David D. Davey, James J. Devlin, Roland Ellwood Dolle, III, Shawn David Erickson, Kirk McMillan, Michael M. Morrissey, Michael H. J. Ohlmeyer, Gonghua Pan, Vidyadhar Madhav Paradkar, John Parkinson, Gary B. Phillips, Bin Ye, Zuchun Zhao
  • Patent number: 6743798
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel substituted pyrazole derivatives of the general formula (I) in which R1, R2, R3 and A are each as defined, and to processes for their preparation and to their use as medicaments, in particular as medicaments for the treatment of cardiovascular disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander Straub, Achim Feurer, Cristina Alonso-Alija, Johannes-Peter Stasch, Elisabeth Perzborn, Joachim Hütter, Klaus Dembowsky, Elke Stahl
  • Publication number: 20040102465
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel pyrazolylpyrimidines of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Rudiger Fischer, Bernd Alig, Thomas Bretschneider, Mazen Es-Sayed, Christoph Erdelen, Peter Losel, Udo Reckmann
  • Publication number: 20040102464
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel aryl-alkane-sulfonamides and their use as active ingredients in the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions. The invention also concerns related aspects including processes for the preparation of the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more of those compounds and especially their use as endothelin receptor antagonists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas Weller, Martin Bolli, Christoph Boss, Martine Clozel, Walter Fischli
  • Publication number: 20040063705
    Abstract: The invention encompasses compounds, analogs, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions, uses and methods for prophylaxis and treatment of cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe Harmange, Shon Booker, John L. Buchanan, Stuart Chaffee, Perry M. Novak, Simon Van Der Plas, Xiaotian Zhu
  • Publication number: 20040049032
    Abstract: The present invention provides a facile process for the preparation of tri- and tetra-substituted pyrimidines. The process is useful for preparing inhibitors of protein kinases, especially Aurora kinase. These inhibitors are useful for treating or lessening the severity of Aurora-mediated diseases or conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: Jean-Damien Charrier, Francesca Mazzei, David Kay, Andrew Miller
  • Patent number: 6703397
    Abstract: This invention relates to indole derivatives of the general formula (I) wherein R1 is alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, alkylsulfonyl, cycloalkylsulfonyl, cycloalkylalkylsulfonyl, dialkylsulfamoyl, N-cycloalkyl-N-alkylsulfamoyl, heterocyclylalkyl or phenylalkyl; R2 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkanoyl, phenyl, phenylalkyl or heterocyclylalkyl; R3 is hydrogen, alkyl; and R4 is alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, alkylsulfonyl, cycloalkylsulfonyl, cycloalkylalkylsulfonyl, dialkylsulfamoyl, N-cycloalkyl-N-alkylsulfamoyl, heterocyclylalkyl, or phenylalkyl; and pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts of these compounds, there use as therapeutically active substances; medicaments based on these substances, optionally in combination with sulphonamides, and their production; the use of these substances as medicaments and for the production of antibacterially-active medicaments; as well as the manufacture of the compounds of formula (I) and their pharmaceutically acceptab
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Basilea Pharmaceutica AG
    Inventors: Patrizio Mattei, Philippe Pflieger
  • Publication number: 20040038991
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) are described in which R1 is optionally substituted heteroaryl; R2 is optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; R3 is a group -L1-R7 or -L2-R8 [where L1 is an optionally substituted alkylene linkage; R7 is hydrogen, aryl, cyano, cycloalkyl, heteroaryl, heterocycloalkyl, nitro, —S(O)nR9, —NHSO2R9, —C(=Z)OR10, —C(=Z)R10, —OR10, —N(R11)—C(=Z)R9, —NY1Y2, —SO2—NY1Y2, —C(=Z)-NY1Y2, —N(R11)—C(=Z)-NY1Y2, —N(OR10)—C(=Z)-NY1Y2, —N(OR10)—C(=Z)R10, —C(=NOR10)R10, —C(=Z)NR10OR12, —N(R11)—C(═NR13)—NY1Y2 or —N(R11)—C(=Z)OR11; L2 is a direct bond or a straight- or branched-carbon chain comprising from 2 to about 6 carbon atoms and contains a double or triple carbon-carbon bond; and R8 is hydrogen, aryl, cycloalkenyl, cycloalkyl, heteroaryl or heterocycloalk
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: AVENTIS PHARMA LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul L. Bamborough, Alan J. Collis, Frank Halley, Richard A. Lewis, David J. Lythgoe, Jeffrey M. McKenna, Iain M. McLay, Barry Porter, Andrew J. Ratcliffe, Paul A. Wallace
  • Publication number: 20040034047
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel benzofuran derivatives and their use as active ingredients in the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions. The invention also concerns related aspects including processes for the preparation of the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more of those compounds and especially their use as anti-infectives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventors: Kasper Burri, Dieter Gillessen, Sorana Greiveldinger-Poenaru, Khalid Islam
  • Publication number: 20040029902
    Abstract: The present invention provides 2,4-pyrimidinediamine compounds that inhibit the IgE and/or IgG receptor signaling cascades that lead to the release of chemical mediators, intermediates and methods of synthesizing the compounds and methods of using the compounds in a variety of contexts, including in the treatment and prevention of diseases characterized by, caused by or associated with the release of chemical mediators via degranulation and other processes effected by activation of the IgE and/or IgG receptor signaling cascades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Rajinder Singh, Ankush Argade, Donald Payan, Susan Molineaux, Sasha J. Holland, Jeffrey Clough, Holger Keim, Somasekhar Bhamidipati, Catherine Sylvain, Hui Li, Alexander B. Rossi
  • Publication number: 20040002496
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of protein kinases. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising said compounds and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of various disease, conditions, or disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventors: David Bebbington, Hayley Binch, Jean-Damien Charrier, Simon Everitt, Julian M. C. Golec, David Kay, Ronald Knegtel, Andrew Miller, Francoise Pierard
  • Publication number: 20040002508
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds and derivatives thereof, their synthesis, and their use as Rho-kinase inhibitors. These compounds are useful for inhibiting tumor growth, treating erectile dysfunction, and treating other indications mediated by Rho-kinase, e.g., coronary heart disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: BAYER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dhanapalan Nagarathnam, Jacques Dumas, Holia Hatoum-Mokdad, Stephen Boyer, Chunguang Wang, Hans Pluempe, Achim Feurer, Samir Bennabi
  • Publication number: 20040002507
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds and derivatives thereof, their synthesis, and their use as Rho-kinase inhibitors. These compounds are useful for inhibiting tumor growth, treating erectile dysfunction, and treating other indications mediated by Rho-kinase, e.g., coronary heart disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: BAYER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dhanapalan Nagarathnam, Jacques Dumas, Holia Hatoum-Mokdad, Stephen Boyer, Hans Pluempe
  • Publication number: 20030229095
    Abstract: An aromatic nitrogen-containing 6-membered cyclic compound of the formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Applicant: Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro Yamada, Kenji Matsuki, Kenji Omori, Kohei Kikkawa
  • Patent number: 6660733
    Abstract: This invention features pyrimidine compounds of formula (I): R1 is  each of R2 and R4 is H; R3 is H, alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, cyclyl, heterocyclyl, or alkylcarbonyl; R5 is H or alkyl; n is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6; X is NRc; Y is covalent bond, CH2, C(O), C═N—Rc, C═N—ORc, C═N—SRc, O, S, S(O), S(O2), or NRc; Z is N or CH; one of U and V is N, and the other is CRc; and W is O, S, S(O), S(O2), NRc, or NC(O)Rc; in which each of Ra and Rb, independently, is H, alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl; and Rc is H, alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, cyclyl, heterocyclyl, or alkylcarbonyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp.
    Inventors: Lijun Sun, Mitsunori Ono, Teresa Przewloka, Elena Kostic, Yumiko Wada
  • Publication number: 20030225082
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds which are capable of preventing the extracellular release of inflammatory cytokines, said compounds, or enantiomeric and diasteriomeric forms or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, have the formula: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventors: Matthew John Laufersweiler, Cynthia Monesa Crago Clark, Michael Philip Clark, Jane Far-Jine Djung, Biswanath De, Michael George Natchus
  • Patent number: 6657060
    Abstract: Pyrimidine derivatives have been found to be useful as neuropeptide Y receptor ligands and particularly as antagonists. These pyrimidine derivatives may be used in the form of pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment or prevention of arthritis, diabetes, eating disorders, and obesity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Volker Breu, Frank Dautzenberg, Patrizio Mattei, Werner Neidhart, Philippe Pflieger
  • Publication number: 20030216406
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I), wherein R1, p, R2, q, R3 and R4 are defined within, and a pharmaceutically acceptable salts and in vivo hydrolysable esters are described. Also described are processes for their preparation and their use as medicaments, particularly medicaments for producing a cell cycle inhibitory (anti-cell-proliferation) effect in a warm-blooded animal, such as man.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: Andrew Peter Thomas, Nicholas John Newcombe, David William Heaton
  • Publication number: 20030216574
    Abstract: New bicyclic based compounds, compositions and methods of inhibiting the activity of glycogen synthase kinase (GSK3) in vitro and of treatment of GSK3 mediated disorders in vivo are provided. The methods, compounds and compositions of the invention may be employed alone, or in combination with other pharmacologically active agents in the treatment of disorders mediated by GSK3 activity, such as in the treatment of diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, obesity, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, essential hypertension, polycystic ovary syndrome, syndrome X, ischemia, traumatic brain injury, bipolar disorder, immunodeficiency or cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: John M. Nuss, Savithri Ramurthy
  • Patent number: 6649608
    Abstract: Pyrimidine derivatives of the formula (I), wherein: Q1 and Q2 are independently selected from aryl or carbon linked heteroaryl optionally substituted as defined within; and one or both Q1 and Q2 are substituted on a ring carbon by one substituent of the formula (Ia) or (Ia′), wherein: Y, Z, n, m Q3, G, R1, are as defined within; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and in in vivo hydrolysable esters thereof are described. Processes for their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions and their use as cyclin-dependent serine/threonine kinase (CDK) and focal adhesion kinase (FAK) inhibitors are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Elizabeth Janet Pease, Gloria Anne Breault, Emma Jane Williams, Robert Hugh Bradbury, Jeffrey James Morris
  • Publication number: 20030199534
    Abstract: The invention relates to inhibitors of kinases, compositions comprising the inhibitors, and methods of using the inhibitors and inhibitor compositions. The inhibitors and compositions comprising them are useful for treating disease or disease symptoms. The invention also provides for methods of making kinase inhibitor compounds, methods of inhibiting kinase activity, and methods for treating disease or disease symptoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Applicant: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Armistead, Jean E. Bemis, Lucian V. DiPietro, Stephanie D. Geuns-Meyer, Gregory J. Habgood, Joseph L. Kim, Joseph J. Nunes, Vinod F. Patel, Leticia M. Toledo-Sherman
  • Patent number: 6632809
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative or prodrug thereof. The compounds are useful as inhibitors of bacterial gyrase activity. The present invention also relates to methods for treating bacterial infections in mammala. The present invention also relates to methods for decreasing bacterial quantity in a biological sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
    Inventors: Anne-Laure Grillot, Paul Charifson, Dean Stamos, Yusheng Liao, Michael Badia, Martin Trudeau
  • Patent number: 6632821
    Abstract: Pyrimidines of formula I in which R1 represents hydrogen or alkyl, haloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkadienyl, alkoxy, cycloalkyl, phenyl, or 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl or 5- or 6-membered heterocyclyl, containing one to four nitrogen atoms or one to three nitrogen atoms and one sulfur or oxygen atom, or tri-alkyl-silyl, formyl or alkoxycarbonyl, wherein R1 groups are unsubstituted or substituted as defined in the specification; R2 represents phenyl, cycloalkyl or 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl, containing one to four nitrogen atoms or one to three nitrogen atoms and one sulfur or oxygen atom, which are unsubstituted or substituted; R3 represents hydrogen, halogen or alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkylamino or dialkylamino; which are unsubstituted or substituted; R4 represents hydrogen or alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl; which are unsubstituted or substituted; and X represents O, S, NR5 or a single bond, wherein R5 represents hydrogen or alkyl; or R1 and R5 together with the interjacent nitrogen ato
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus-Juergen Pees, Waldemar Pfrengle, Gavin Heffernan
  • Publication number: 20030191307
    Abstract: Novel compounds according to the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Todd A. Blumenkopf, Eileen Elliott Mueller, Eric Jan Roskamp
  • Publication number: 20030181474
    Abstract: Pyrimidine derivatives of formula (I) wherein Q1, Q2, G and R1 are as defined within; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and in vivo hydrolysable esters thereof are described. Processes for their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions and their use as cyclin-dependent serine/threonine kinase (CDK) and focal adhesion kinase (FAK) inhibitors are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Elizabeth Janet Pease, Emma Jane Williams, Robert Hugh Bradbury, Stuart Eric Pearson
  • Publication number: 20030171374
    Abstract: This invention concerns HIV replication inhibitors of formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Kukla, Donald William Ludovici, Robert William Kavash, Bart Lieven Daniel De Corte, Jan Heeres, Paul Adriaan Jan Janssen, Lucien Maria Henricus Koymans, Marc Rene de Jonge, Koen Jeanne Alfons Van Aken, Alain Krief, Ruben Gerardus George Leenders
  • Publication number: 20030166931
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel processes and novel intermediate compounds for preparing aryl-and heteroaryl-substituted urea compounds of the formula(I) wherein Ar1, Ar2, L, Q and X are described herein. The product compounds are useful in pharmaceutic compositions for treating diseases or pathological conditions involving inflammation such as chronic inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin-Hua Zhang, Lei Zhu
  • Publication number: 20030166930
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel processes and novel intermediate compounds for preparing aryl- and heteroaryl-substituted urea compounds of the formula(I) wherein Ar1, Ar2, L, Q and X are described herein. The product compounds are useful in pharmaceutic compositions for treating diseases or pathological conditions involving inflammation such as chronic inflammatory diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin-Hua Zhang, Lei Zhu
  • Publication number: 20030162802
    Abstract: Pyrimidine phosphodiesterase 7 (PDE 7) inhibitors of the following formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Junqing Guo, Joseph Barbosa, William John Pitts, Marianne Carlsen, Claude Quesnelle, Marco Dodier