Abstract: The invention relates to substituted indazoles and methods for production thereof and use thereof for the production of medicinal products for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, especially of cardiovascular diseases, preferably of thromboembolic diseases.

Abstract: In the preparation of zolmitriptan of formula III the reduction of the diazonium salt to (5)-4-(4-hydrazinobenzyl)-1,3-oxazolidin-2-one of formula IV is performed in a more concentrated mixture and by the effect on an alkali metal disulphite, preferably sodium disulphite. A zolmitriptan toluene solvate, characterized by a toluene content of 9 to 14% by weight according to the gas chromatography determination and by a maximum of the corresponding mass loss at temperatures of about 111° C. in the gravimetric analysis record. A zolmitriptan toluene solvate, showing strong Raman bands at the wave numbers of 1443 and 1354 cm?1, characteristic for the crystal lattice of zolmitriptan with built-in toluene, and further marked bands at 1004 and 786 cm?1, characteristic for toluene.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of anti-infective, anti-proliferative, anti-inflammatory, and prokinetic agents. More particularly, the invention relates to a family of compounds having both a biaryl moiety and at least one heterocylic moiety that are useful as such agents.

Abstract: Compounds having the structures of Formula I, including pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds, are CETP inhibitors, and are useful for raising HDL-cholesterol, reducing LDL-cholesterol, and for treating or preventing atherosclerosis: In the compounds of Formula I, B or R2 is a phenyl group which has an ortho aryl, heterocyclic, benzoheterocyclic or benzocycloalkyl substituent, and one other position on the 5-membered ring has an aromatic, heterocyclic, cycloalkyl, benzoheterocyclic or benzocycloalkyl substituent connected directly to the ring or attached to the ring through a —CH2—.

Abstract: Novel compounds belonging to the class of oxazolidinones possessing potent antimycobacterial properties especially useful in the treatment of acid fast organisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium-intracellular complex, M. fortuitum and M. kansai. The compound and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts act as antibacterial agents. Also mentioned is a method for inhibiting growth of mycobacterial cells as well as a method of treating mycobacterial conditions such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium-intracellular complex, M. fortuitum and M. kansai., including administering an antimycobacterially effective amount of the compound and/or pharmaceutically acceptable salts. There is also mentioned a process for the manufacture of the compound or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts.

Abstract: In recognition of the need to develop novel therapeutic agents, the present invention provides novel histone deacetylase inhibitors. These compounds include an ester bond making them sensitive to deactivation by esterases. Therefore, these compounds are particularly useful in the treatment of skin disorders. When the compounds reaches the bloodstream, an esterase or an enzyme with esterase activity cleaves the compound into biologically inactive fragments or fragments with greatly reduced activity Ideally these degradation products exhibit a short serum and/or systemic half-life and are eliminated rapidly. These compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are particularly useful in treating cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, neurofibromatosis, psoriasis, hair loss, skin pigmentation, and dermatitis, for example. The present invention also provides methods for preparing compounds of the invention and intermediates thereto.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel iminooxazolidines, to processes for their preparation, to their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and also to their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular thromboembolic disorders.

Abstract: An efficient process is disclosed for producing a compound that is an inhibitor of CETP. The last step of the process is the coupling of an oxazolidinone derivative with a biphenyl moiety to provide a compound of formula (I). In a specific embodiment of this synthesis, a crystalline product is produced which is characterized as a non-solvated crystalline polymorph.

Abstract: The invention provides novel prodrugs of inhibitors of PI-3 kinase. The novel compounds are LY294002 and analogs thereof comprising a reversibly quaternized amine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for the preparation of biaryl oxazolidinones. These compounds are useful as anti-infective, anti-proliferative, anti-inflammatory, and prokinetic agents.

Abstract: A process for the enantioselective synthesis of an (S)- or (R)-1-[2-dimethylamino)-1-(methoxyphenyl)ethyl]cyclohexanol and analogues or salt thereof are described.

Abstract: This invention provides analogs of hemiasterlin, methods of synthesis of the analogs and use of the analogs as a cytotoxic anti-mitotic agents.

Abstract: This invention relates to new oxazolidinones having a cyclopropyl moiety, which are effective against aerobic and anerobic pathogens such as multi-resistant staphylococci, streptococci and enterococci, Bacteroides spp., Clostridia spp. species, as well as acid-fast organisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other mycobacterial species. The compounds are represented by structural formula I: its enantiomer, diastereomer, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of blood coagulation, more particularly, to novel compounds of general formula (I), to a method for producing the compounds and to their use as active ingredients in medicaments for the prevention and/or the treatment of diseases.

Abstract: An industrially easily realizable and economical process comprising only few steps, and built on new intermediates for the production of 1-(4-3(R)-[3(S)-(4-fluorophenyl)-3-hydroxypropyl]-4(S)-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-azetidinone (ezetimibe) according to the reaction scheme described herein.

Abstract: The present invention provides a benzofuran derivative of the formula [1]: wherein x is a group of the formula: —N? or —CH?; Y is an optionally substituted amino group, an optionally substituted cycloalkyl group or an optionally substituted saturated heterocyclic group; A is a single bond, a carbon chain optionally having a double bond within or at the end(s) of the chain, or an oxygen atom; R1 is a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; Ring B is an optionally substituted benzene ring; and R3 is a hydrogen atom, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which is useful as a medicament, especially as an activated blood coagulation factor X inhibitor.

Abstract: In recognition of the need to develop novel therapeutic agents and efficient methods for the synthesis thereof, the present invention provides novel inhibitors of histone deacetylases, tubulin deacetylases, and/or aggresome inhibitors, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and derivatives thereof. The inventive compounds fall into two classes—“isotubacin” class and “isoisotubacin” class—all of which include a 1,3-dioxane core. The present invention further provides methods for treating disorders regulated by histone deacetylase activity, tubulin deacetylase activity, and/or the aggresome (e.g., proliferative diseases, cancer, inflammatory diseases, protozoal infections, protein degradation disorders, protein deposition disorders, etc.) comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of an inventive compound to a subject in need thereof. The present invention also provides methods for preparing compounds of the invention.

Abstract: Various azetidinone, pyrrolidine, imidazolidine, and oxazolidine derivatives are described, as are pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and methods of treatment of diseases using these compounds. Other embodiments are also described.

Abstract: In particular, this invention relates to the synthesis intermediates (IV), (V), (VI) and (VIII) useful for preparing zolmitriptanzohnitriptan or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which includes a) Ppreparation of the diazonium salt of the aniline hydrochloride (II); followed by reduction and acidification to give hydrazine (III); b) In situ Reaction of the hydrazine hydrochloride (III) with ?-keto-?-valerolactone, to give the hydrazone (IV); c) Fischer indole synthesis of the hydrazone (IV), to give the pyranoindolone of formula (V); d) Ttransesterification of the pyranoindolone (V) to provide the compound (VI), in which R means a straight or branched C1-C4 alkyl; e) Conversion of the hydroxyl group of the compound (VI) into dimethylamino to give the indolecarboxylate (VII), in which R means a straight or branched C1-C4 alkyl; f) Ssaponification of the 2-carboalkoxy group of the compound (VII), to provide indolecarboxylic acid (VIII); g) Ddecarboxylation of the indolecarboxylic acid (VIII), to provi

Abstract: The present invention describes intermediates (ZP) for a novel and efficient synthesis of compounds in which the pharmacophores of quinolone and oxazolidinone are linked to one another by way of a chemically stable linker.

Abstract: A compound having the formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a prodrug thereof is disclosed herein. Y, A, and B are as described herein. Methods, compositions, and medicaments related to these compounds are also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a compound having a structure or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or a prodrug thereof. Therapeutic methods, compositions, and medicaments related thereto are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof wherein X is C1-4alkyl; and Y is H or F. The compounds of the present invention are useful as antibacterial agents.

Abstract: Compounds having the structure of Formula I, including pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds, are CETP inhibitors, and are useful for raising HDL-cholesterol, reducing LDL-cholesterol, and for treating or preventing atherosclerosis. The compounds have 3 cyclic groups connected by single bonds, as for example triphenyl, which are attached directly to the ring of formula I or attached at the position B.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of anti-infective, anti-proliferative, anti-inflammatory, and prokinetic agents. More particularly, the invention relates to a family of compounds having both a biaryl moiety and at least one heterocylic moiety that are useful as such agents.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (VIII) wherein each X is independently H or F; and R is selected from hydrogen, halogen, cyano, methyl, cyanomethyl, fluoromethyl, difluoromethyl, trifluoromethyl and —Si[(1-4C)alkyl]3; and processes for preparing a compound of formula (VIII) by bromination of a compound of the formula (VII),

Abstract: The present invention provides a new medical use for the compounds of the formula (I), their derivatives, analogs, tautomeric forms, stereoisomers, polymorphs, hydrates, solvates, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and compositions, metabolites and prodrugs thereof, as MAO-A inhibitors. Also included is a method for prophylaxis and treatment of mental disorders such as depression, in a mammal, comprising administering an effective amount of a compound of formula (I). These compounds are also effective in treating a disease, condition or disorder such as weight loss, obesity, bulimia, depression, bipolar disorders, psychoses, schizophrenia, behaviors, alcoholism, tobacco abuse, memory loss, Alzheimer's disease, dementia of aging, seizure disorders, epilepsy, attention deficit disorder, and Parkinson's disease, which is modulated by a cannabinoid receptor antagonist.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula I, in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 have the meanings given in the description, and their physiologically acceptable salts. The compounds are suitable for use, for example, as hypolipidemics.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the preparation of novel compounds useful in the treatment of hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia, and other related metabolic disorders. More specifically, the present invention is a novel process for the preparation of 1,4-diphenylazetidinone derivatives from ?-substituted amino amides which are protected in the presence of silylating agents and at least one cyclization catalyst whose structural formula is represented by one of the general formula: wherein the various R-groups are defined herein.

Abstract: The present application relates to novel 2-aminoethoxyacetic acid derivatives, to processes for their preparation, to their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and also to their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular thromboembolic disorders.

Abstract: This invention describes the discovery and synthesis of N-thiolated 2-oxazolidinones as a new class of anti bacterial agents. These compounds can be synthesized from 2-oxazolidinones by Ndeprotection and N-sulfenylation. These new substances were found to exhibit potent anti-bacterial activity, including bacteriostatic properties against Staphylococcus spp., including methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and Bacillus spp., including Bacillus anthracis.

Abstract: NMDA receptor blockers, including pH-sensitive NMDA receptor blockers, are provided as neurprotective drugs that are useful in stroke, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and other neurologic events that involve acidification of brain or spinal cord tissue. Compositions and methods of this invention are used for treating neurodegeneration resulting from NMDA receptor activation. The compounds described herein have enhanced activity in brain tissue having lower than normal pH due to pathological conditions such as hypoxia resulting from stroke, traumatic brain injury, global ischemia that may occur during cardiac surgery, hypoxia that may occur following cessation of breathing, pre-eclampsia, spinal cord trauma, epilepsy, chrounic pain, vascular dementia and glioma rumors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) comprising a lactam or a lactam derivative moiety, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds and their uses as pharmaceuticals.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to perfluoroalkyl chiral auxiliary compounds and methods of manufacture. These compounds have the functionality to effectively support the synthesis of chiral compounds in single reactions, high-throughput parallel reactions, or combinatorial reactions The invention relates to two oxazolidinone chiral auxiliaries (1) and (2): wherein Rf is a perfluoroalkyl group having the general formula (CH2)x—CyF2y+1 where x=1-5 and y=4-10 and wherein B is an unfunctionalized aryl, alkyl or arylalkyl group in a preferred embodiment, x=2 and y=6 and B is derived from unfunctionalized amino acids The amino acids may be from either the D- or L-series, and are preferably enantiomerically pure or in very high enantiomeric excess in either configuration.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds and methods that can be used to convert the intermediate halomethyl ketones (HMKs), e.g., chloromethyl ketones, to the corresponding S,S- and R,S-diastereomers. More particularly, the present invention provides: (1) reduction methods; (2) inversion methods; and (3) methods involving the epoxidation of alkenes. Using the various methods of the present invention, the R,S-epoxide and the intermediary compounds can be prepared reliably, in high yields and in high purity.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to compounds of Formula I: Wherein R1, R2, Y, m and n are further defined in the description. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of the compounds and to new intermediates employed in the preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, and to the use of the compounds in therapy.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I), or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt, or an in-vivo-hydrolysable ester thereof, wherein —N-HET is, for example, (Ic) or (If) wherein R1 is (1-4C)alkyl; Q is selected from, for example, Q1 wherein R2 and R3 are independently hydrogen or fluoro; T is selected from a range of groups, for example, wherein m is 0, 1 or 2; are useful as antibacterial agents; and processes for their manufacture and pharmaceutical compositions containing them are described.

Abstract: This invention relates to new oxazolidinones having a cyclopropyl moiety, which are effective against aerobic and anerobic pathogens such as multi-resistant staphylococci, streptococci and enterococci, Bacteroides spp., Clostridia spp. species, as well as acid-fast organisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other mycobacterial species. The compounds are represented by structural formula I: its enantiomer, diastereomer, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof.

Abstract: A haloalkylsulfonanilide derivative represented by the formula (I): {wherein R1 represents haloalkyl; R2 represents H, alkylcarbonyl, optionally substituted phenylcarbonyl, alkoxycarbonyl, optionally substituted phenoxycarbonyl, optionally substituted phenylsulfonyl, etc.; R3 and R4 each represents H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, halogeno, CN, etc.; R5, R6, R7, and R8 each represents H, halogeno, alkyl, cycloalkyl, optionally substituted phenyl(C1-6 alkyl), an optionally substituted heterocycle, etc.; A and W each represents O or S; and X represents one to four substituents selected among H, halogeno, alkyl, alkenyl, optionally substituted phenyl, optionally substituted phenylalkylaminocarbonyl, OH, CN, etc.} and a salt thereof; and a herbicide containing any of these compounds as an active ingredient. The herbicide is excellent in wide applicability, persistency, and selectivity for crops and effectiveness against weeds. It is excellent especially as a herbicide for rice fields.

Abstract: Among other things, to cause directional motion of chiral objects in a mixture in a chamber, a field is rotated relative, to a chamber to cause rotation of the chiral objects. The rotation of the objects causes them to move directionally based on their chirality.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof wherein R1 is C1-4alkyl, optionally substituted with a fluoro atom, or R1 is a cyclopropyl or cyclopropylmethyl; and R2 is methyl or ethyl. These compounds are useful as antibacterial agents.

Abstract: A polymorph Form III of 4-(2-(4,4-dimethyl-2-oxooxazolidin-3-yl)thiazol-4-yl)benzonitrile and methods of preparing Form III are described. Also provided are methods of contraception, treating or preventing fibroids, uterine leiomyomata, endometriosis, dysfunctional bleeding, polycystic ovary syndrome, and hormone-dependent carcinomas, providing hormone replacement therapy, stimulating food intake, and synchronizing estrus including using polymorph Form III of 4-(2-(4,4-dimethyl-2-oxooxazolidin-3-yl)thiazol-4-yl)benzonitrile. Also provided are methods for preparing polymorph Form I of 4-(2-(4,4-dimethyl-2-oxooxazolidin-3-yl)thiazol-4-yl)benzonitrile from polymorph Form III of 4-(2-(4,4-dimethyl-2-oxooxazolidin-3-yl)thiazol-4-yl)benzonitrile.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to at least one precursor compound and derivatives thereof, a process for preparing a taxane, and a baccatin derivative.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel oxazolidinones their derivatives, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, and hydrates thereof. This invention also provides compositions comprising a compound of this invention and the use of such compositions in methods of treating diseases and conditions that are beneficially treated by administering cholesterol ester transfer protein inhibitors.

Abstract: A polymorph Form II of 4-(2-(4,4-dimethyl-2-oxooxazolidin-3-yl)thiazol-4-yl)benzonitrile and methods of preparing Form II are described. Also provided are methods of contraception, treating or preventing fibroids, uterine leiomyomata, endometriosis, dysfunctional bleeding, polycystic ovary syndrome, and hormone-dependent carcinomas, providing hormone replacement therapy, stimulating food intake, and synchronizing estrus including using polymorph Form II of 4-(2-(4,4-dimethyl-2-oxooxazolidin-3-yl)thiazol-4-yl)benzonitrile. Further provided are methods for preparing polymorph Form I of 4-(2-(4,4-dimethyl-2-oxooxazolidin-3-yl)thiazol-4-yl)benzonitrile from polymorph Form II of 4-(2-(4,4-dimethyl-2-oxooxazolidin-3-yl)thiazol-4-yl)benzonitrile.

Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula (I): wherein E, A, B?, R6, R7, R8, and R9 are defined in the specification which compounds exhibit anticancer activity and are useful for treating cancer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new substituted imidazole compounds have the following Formula (I) and to the pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, or prodrugs thereof, to compositions of the compounds together with pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, and to uses of the compounds:

Abstract: Cell motility and growth inhibitors, including compounds of the general structural formula and use of the cell motility and cell growth inhibitors, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, and solvates thereof, as therapeutic agents, are disclosed.

Abstract: Substituted oxazolidinone of the formula: wherein R2 is alkyl selected from the group consisting of methyl, ethyl, and isopropyl moieties, are described. The compounds are antibacterial.

Abstract: A compound comprising a prodrug of a prostaglandin EP4 agonist, wherein said prodrug is an ester, ether, or amide of a carbohydrate; or said prodrug is an ester, ether, or amide of an amino acid is disclosed herein. Maintenance of the colonic mucosal barrier by method comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a prostaglandin EP4 agonist to a colon of a mammal is also disclosed herein. Dosage forms, medicaments, and compositions, related thereto are also disclosed.