Polycyclo Ring System Having The Five-membered Hetero Ring As One Of The Cyclos Patents (Class 548/414)
  • Publication number: 20030130235
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain 3-[4-(substituted heterocyclyl)-pyrrol-2-ylmethylidene]-2-indolinone derivatives that inhibit kinases, in particular VEGFR and/or PDGFR kinases. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of treating diseases mediated by kinases utilizing pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and methods of preparing them are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: Sugen, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Mattson, Tomas Vojkovsky, Congxin Liang, Peng Cho Tang, Huiping Guan
  • Publication number: 20030119748
    Abstract: This invention is directed to novel (N-substituted) indole ICE/ced-3-inhibitor compounds. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions of such indole compounds, plus the use of such compositions in the treatment of patients suffering inflammatory, autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases, for the prevention of ischemic injury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: Idun Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald S. Karanewsky, Xu Bai
  • Publication number: 20030119819
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain 3-(4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindol-2-yl-methylidene)-2-indolinone derivatives that inhibit kinases, in particular Src kinase. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of treating diseases mediated by kinases utilizing pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and methods of preparing them are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: Sugen, Inc.
    Inventors: Congxin Liang, Huiping Guan, Peng Cho Tang, Robert A. Blake
  • Patent number: 6576766
    Abstract: This invention concerns compounds for inhibiting intracellular signal transduction, especially intracellular signal transduction mediate by one or more molecular interactions involving a phosphotyrosine-containing protein. This invention also relates to pharmaceutic compositions containing the compounds and prophylactic and therapeutic methods involving pharmaceutical and veterinary administration of the compounds. The compounds are of formula (1) as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Manfred Weigele, Regine Bohacek, Virginia A. Jacobsen, Karina Macek, Michael G. Yang, Noriyuki H. Kawahata, Rajeswari Sundaramoorthi, Yihan Wang, Craig S. Takeuchi, George P. Luke, Chester A. Metcalf, III, William C. Shakespeare, Tomi K. Sawyer
  • Publication number: 20030105056
    Abstract: The invention features linker molecules that have at one terminus a amino-protecting group and at the other terminus a phosphorous activating group, typically phosphoramidite. The linker molecules can be used, for example, to produce amino-modified linkers that space an oligonucleotide from a solid support. The invention also features an amino-protected nucleotide that includes an activated phosphorous group such as a phosphoramidite for the production of a 5′ amino-modified oligonucleotide. The invention further provides a phthalimido-modified support that can be used to synthesize a polynucleotide that includes an amino group at the 3′ terminus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Tai-Nang Huang, Ming Shen
  • Patent number: 6570019
    Abstract: The object of the present invention are diketopyrrolopyrroles of the general formula (I) wherein, independently of one another, Q1 and Q2 represent an optionally substituted, aromatic, isocyclic or heterocyclic group with 5 to 14 atoms in the ring, the heterocyclic group containing at least one oxygen, nitrogen or sulfur atom, and the R1 and R2 groups, independently of one another represent hydrogen or a Y—B+A− group, with the proviso that at least one of the R1 and R2 groups is not hydrogen; B+ is an aromatic, aliphatic, alicyclic, aromatic heterocyclic or non-aromatic heterocyclic, quaternary ammonium group or a quaternary phosphonium group; Y is an optionally substituted linear or branched C1 to C6 alkylene group and A− is an anion; a method for their synthesis as well as agents, containing compounds of formula (I), for dyeing keratin fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Wella AG
    Inventors: Cécile Pasquier, Patrick Wyss, Hans-Juergen Braun
  • Patent number: 6565829
    Abstract: The invention provides derivatives of 5-arylsulfonyl indole and 5-arylsulfonyl indoline compounds which may be in the form of pharmaceutical acceptable salts or compositions that are useful in treating central nervous system diseases such as anxiety and depression. The invention also includes intermediates and processes to make the compounds, isotopically-labeled forms of the compounds and the use of the isotopically labeled forms of the compounds to perform nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company
    Inventor: Jian-Min Fu
  • Publication number: 20030083363
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to prodrugs of certain 3-(pyrrol-2-yl-methylidene)-2-indolinone derivatives that modulate the activity of protein kinases (“PKs”). Pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of treating diseases related to abnormal PK activity utilizing pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of preparing them are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Applicant: SUGEN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Malcolm Wilson Moon, Walter Morozowich, Ping Gao, Marcel Koenig
  • Publication number: 20030050331
    Abstract: The present invention provides analogues of duocarmycins that are potent cytotoxins. Also provided are peptidyl and disulfide linkers that are cleaved in vivo. The linkers are of use in forming prodrugs and conjugates of the cytotoxins of the invention as well as other diagnostic and therapeutic moieties. The invention provides prodrugs and conjugates of the duocarmycin analogues with the linker arms of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Applicant: Medarex Inc.
    Inventors: Howard P. Ng, Danny P.C. McGee, Oliver L. Saunders, Valeri Martichonok, Guoxian Wu, Zhihong Li, Geoffrey T. Yarranton
  • Publication number: 20030032626
    Abstract: This invention provides PAI-1 inhibiting compounds of Formula I: 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Scott Christian Mayer, Eric Gould Gundersen, Hassan Mahmoud Elokdah, David LeRoy Crandall
  • Publication number: 20020151725
    Abstract: Chromogenic 3-Indoxyl choline phosphate compounds of formula (I): 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: BIOYNTH AG
    Inventors: Gunter Schabert, Lawrence Restaino, Elon W. Frampton
  • Publication number: 20020107404
    Abstract: Sulfanyl-indirubin derivatives, their production and their intermediate products for production, as well as their use as medications for treating cancer, such as solid tumors and leukemia; auto-immune diseases, such as psoriasis, alopecia and multiple sclerosis, chemotherapy agent-induced alopecia and mucositis; cardiovascular diseases, such as stenoses, arterioscleroses and restenoses; infectious diseases, such as, e.g., those caused by unicellular parasites, such as trypanosoma, toxoplasma or plasmodium, or those caused by fungi; nephrological diseases, such as, e.g., glomerulonephritis; chronic neurodegenerative diseases, such as Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, AIDS dementia and Alzheimer's disease; acute neurodegenerative diseases, such as ischemias of the brain and neurotraumas; viral infections, such as, e.g., cytomegalic infections, herpes, hepatitis, B and C, and HIV diseases, are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Applicant: Schering AG
    Inventors: Olaf Prien, Andreas Steinmeyer, Gerhard Siemeister, Rolf Jautelat
  • Publication number: 20020077487
    Abstract: Chemically reactive carbocyanine dyes incorporating an indolium ring moiety that is substituted at the 3-position by a reactive group or by a conjugated substance, and their uses, are described. Conjugation through this position results in spectral properties that are uniformly superior to those of conjugates of spectrally similar dyes wherein attachment is at a different position. The invention includes derivative compounds having one or more benzo nitrogens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Applicant: MOLECULAR PROBES, INC.
    Inventors: Wai-Yee Leung, Ching-Ying Cheung, Stephen Yue
  • Publication number: 20020072616
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I), their salts and prodrugs thereof, where the substituents are as defined herein are disclosed as opiate binding agents useful in the treatment of opiate-mediated conditions. Also described are processes for making such substances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Applicant: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Joseph Banks, Robert James Crook, Stephen Paul Gibson, Graham Lunn, Alan John Pettman
  • Patent number: 6380397
    Abstract: A process for preparing 1H-indole-3-glyoxamides useful for inhibiting SPLA2 and novel intermediates useful in the preparation of such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Alan Anderson, Nancy Kay Harn, Richard Duane Miller, Edward Francis Plocharczyk
  • Publication number: 20020037878
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to prodrugs of certain 3-(pyrrol-2-yl-methylidene)-2-indolinone derivatives that modulate the activity of protein kinases (“PKs”). Pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of treating diseases related to abnormal PK activity utilizing pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of preparing them are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventors: Malcolm Wilson Moon, Walter Morozowich, Ping Gao, Marcel Koenig
  • Patent number: 6355810
    Abstract: Disclosed are multibinding compounds which inhibit 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMG-COA reductase), the rate limiting enzyme in cholesterol biosynthesis. The multibinding compounds of this invention containing from 2 to 10 ligands covalently attached to one or more linkers. Each ligand is a moiety capable of binding to HMG-CoA reductase and the distance between ligands is at least 10 Å. The multibinding compounds of this invention are useful in the treatment and prevention of hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Advanced Medicine, Inc.
    Inventors: John H. Griffin, Michael R. Leadbetter, Donald E. Schmidt, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20020025935
    Abstract: This invention is directed to novel (N-substituted) indole ICE/ced-3-inhibitor compounds. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions of such indole compounds, plus the use of such compositions in the treatment of patients suffering inflammatory. autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases, for the prevention of ischemic injury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventors: Donald S. Karanewsky, Xu Bai
  • Patent number: 6339160
    Abstract: Objects of the present invention are compounds of a peptido-mimetic character having the capacity of acting as inhibitors of metalloproteinases produced by venom of snake, and of other metalloproteinases of human origin which have been put in relation with various pathologies in man, including tumoral growth and metastatization, aterosclerosis, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis, hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. Object of the present invention is also the procedure for the production of diethylester of (1)-phosphotryptophan, as an initial product necessary to synthesize all compounds mentioned above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignees: Polifarma S.p.A., Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche
    Inventors: Vincenzo Politi, Enrico Gavuzzo, Carlo Gallina, Giovanni Di Stazio, Silvana D'Alessio, Antonio Sella, Cinzia Piazza, Cesare Giordano, Barbara Gorini, Gabriella Panini, Mario Paglialunga Paradisi, Maurizio Cirilli, Giorgio Pochetti, Fernando Mazza
  • Patent number: 6313143
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel substituted pyrroles having the formula These compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts are suitable for administration to patients as continuous infusion solution and are useful in the treatment and/or control of cell proliferative disorders, in particular cancer. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the foregoing compounds and methods for the treatment and/or control of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Nader Fotouhi, Emily Aijun Liu, Allen John Lovey, John Guilfoyle Mullin, Jr., Giuseppe Federico Weber
  • Patent number: 6297387
    Abstract: Chiral diphosphines constituted by an aromatic pentatomic biheterocyclic system, suitable to act as chiral ligands, complexes between said diphosophines and transition metals, and their utilization as chiral catalysts in stereocontrolled reactions, such as diastereo- and enantioselective reduction reactions. Process for the preparation of said chiral diphosophines and process for the preparation of said complexes and for their utilization as chiral catalysts in stereocontrolled reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Italfarmaco Sud S.p.A.
    Inventors: Patrizia Antognazza, Tiziana Benincori, Elisabetta Brenna, Edoardo Cesarotti, Francesco Sannicolo, Licia Trimarco
  • Patent number: 6277833
    Abstract: Substituted triols are prepared by reducing appropriately substituted carboxylic esters. The substituted triols can be used as active substances in medicaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rolf Angerbauer, Peter Fey, Walter Hübsch, Thomas Philipps, Hilmar Bischoff, Hans-Peter Krause, Jörg Petersen von Gehr, Delf Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6235727
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I are suitable for the production of pharmaceuticals for the prophylaxis and therapy of disorders in the course of which an increased activity of matrix-degrading enzymes is involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Schudok, Wilfried Schwab, Gerhard Zoller, Eckart Bartnik, Frank Büttner, Klaus-Ulrich Weithmann
  • Patent number: 6124465
    Abstract: Novel products of formula (I), their preparation, the pharmaceutical compositions which contain them and their use in the preparation of medicaments. ##STR1## In the formula (I), the following substituents are among the preferred: Ar represents a substituted or condensed phenyl radical or a polycyclic or heterocyclic aromatic radical, R represents a radical of general formula --(CH.sub.2).sub.m --X.sub.1 --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --Z in which X.sub.1 =single bond, O, S; m=0, 1; n=0, 1, 2; it being possible for the CH.sub.2 radicals to be substituted; Z represents carboxyl, COOR.sub.6 (R.sub.6 =alkyl), CON(R.sub.7)(R.sub.8) (R.sub.7 =hydrogen or alkyl and R.sub.8 =hydrogen, hydroxyl, arylsulphonyl, heterocyclyl, optionally substituted amino, optionally substituted alkyloxy or optionally substituted alkyl), PO(OR.sub.9).sub.2 (R.sub.9 =hydrogen or alkyl), an --NH--CO--T (T=hydrogen or optionally substituted alkyl) radical, or else--a ##STR2## radical, R.sub.1 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Rhone-Poulenc S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Dominique Bourzat, Alain Commer.cedilla.on, Norbert Dereu, Patrick Mailliet, Fabienne Sounigo-Thompson, Jean-Paul Martin, Marc Capet, Michel Cheve
  • Patent number: 6054444
    Abstract: The present invention relates to phosphonic acid derivatives that inhibit N-Acetylated .alpha.-Linked Acidic Dipeptidase (NAALADase) enzyme activity, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such derivatives, and methods of using such derivatives to inhibit NAALADase activity, to treat a glutamate abnormality and to treat a prostate disease in an animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Paul F. Jackson, Keith M. Maclin, Kevin L. Tays, Barbara S. Slusher
  • Patent number: 6028216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to asymmetric syntheses and intermediates for preparing enantiomer-enriched hydroxyphosphinyl derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2000
    Assignee: Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Guillermo Morales, Weixing Li, Paul F. Jackson
  • Patent number: 6025345
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to dipeptidase inhibitors, and more particularly, to novel methods of using phosphonate derivatives, hydroxyphosphinyl derivatives, and phosphoramidate derivatives to inhibit N-Acetylated .alpha.-Linked Acidic Dipeptidase (NAALADase) enzyme activity, and to treat prostate diseases, especially using the compounds of the present invention for the inhibition of the growth of prostate cancer cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Paul F. Jackson, Barbara S. Slusher, Kevin L. Tays, Keith M. Maclin
  • Patent number: 5968933
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel bis-benzimidazole compounds which have the ability to bind to the minor groove of DNA and to alkylate DNA, to methods of preparing the compounds, and the use of the compounds in the treatement of neoplastic disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignees: Auckland Division Cancer Society of New Zealand Inc., Circadian Pharmaceuticals (Australia) Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: William A. Denny, Jeffrey B. Smaill
  • Patent number: 5962438
    Abstract: A novel estrogen derivative represented by the formula: ##STR1## is useful for treating or preventing diseases caused by estrogen deficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals Company, Limited
    Inventors: Michihiro Yamamoto, Akira Sasaki, Takashi Katsumata, Naomi Tsushima, Hideyuki Harada
  • Patent number: 5726200
    Abstract: Novel pro-drugs to new and unnatural dipeptoids of .alpha.-substituted Trp-Phe derivatives useful as agents in the treatment of obesity, hypersecretion of gastric acid in the gut, gastrin-dependent tumors, or as antipsychotics are disclosed. Further, the dipeptoids are antianxiety agents and antiulcer agents. They are agents useful for preventing the response to the withdrawal from chronic treatment or with use of nicotine, diazepam, alcohol, cocaine, caffeine, or opioids. The pro-drugs are also useful in treating and/or preventing panic attacks. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment using the pro-drugs as well as processes for preparing them and novel intermediates useful in their preparation. An additional feature of the invention is the use of the subject pro-drug compounds in diagnostic compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company
    Inventors: David Christopher Horwell, Martyn Clive Pritchard, Reginald Stewart Richardson
  • Patent number: 5714606
    Abstract: The invention relates to pyrrolidine monomeric units and to oligomers which are joined via phosphate linkages, including phosphorothioate, phosphodiester and phosphoramidate linkages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: ISIS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Oscar L. Acevedo, Normand Hebert
  • Patent number: 5707978
    Abstract: Therapeutically active, heteroaryl-substituted deoxy glycero-phosphoethanolamines are disclosed having the general Formula I: ##STR1## wherein one of X, Y or Z is a fatty ether substituent, one is a heteroaryl ring substituent with 1-4 nitrogens as the only heteroatoms, one of which is bonded to a carbon of the glyceryl backbone, and one is a phosphoethanolamine substituent substituted at the nitrogen, provided that each of X, Y and Z is a different substituent, and the pharmaceutical compositions comprising the therapeutically active compounds and methods of using the therapetically active compounds to treat cancerous tumors, psoriasis and inflammation are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Clarion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Friedrich Paltauf, Albin Hermetter, Rudolf Franzmair
  • Patent number: 5688966
    Abstract: Novel intermediates having an indolenine nucleus which are useful in the synthesis of fluorescent sulfoindocyanine dyes are described. Dyes synthesized using such intermediates do not contain a reactive group that will covalently attach to a target molecule at an amine- or hydroxy-containing site. Rather, these intermediates are linked to an enzyme substrate or a member of a specific binding pair. Also included are tyramide-comaining sulfonidocyanine dyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Mark Norman Bobrow, Thomas Joseph Erickson
  • Patent number: 5679700
    Abstract: Novel phosphinic acid-containing peptidyl compounds of formula I are found to be useful inhibitors of matrix metalloendoproteinase-mediated diseases including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, septic arthritis, tumor invasion in certain cancers, periodontal disease, corneal ulceration, proteinuria, dystrophobic epidermolysis bullosa, and coronary thrombosis associated with atherosclerotic plaque rupture. These inhibitors may also be useful in preventing the pathological sequelae following a traumatic injury that could lead to permanent disability. These compounds may also have utility as a means for birth control by preventing ovulation or implantation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Charles G. Caldwell, Philippe L. Durette, Joung L. Goulet, William K. Hagmann, Soumya P. Sahoo
  • Patent number: 5670493
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I): ##STR1## in which: R.sub.1, R.sub.2, which may be identical or different, represent hydrogen or halogen, or alkyl, alkoxy, nitro or trihalomethyl,X represents CO, SO.sub.2 or CH.sub.2,A.sub.1 represents any one of the groups as defined in the description,A.sub.2 represents --(CH.sub.2).sub.n or --CH.dbd.CH--,R.sub.3, R.sub.4, which may be identical or different, represent hydrogen or alkyl,its isomers as well as its addition salts with a pharmaceutically acceptable base and medicinal product containing the same are useful as angiogenesis inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: Adir et Compagnie
    Inventors: Alex Cordi, Patrice Desos, Angela D. Morris, Ghanem Atassi
  • Patent number: 5661174
    Abstract: Compounds of the tautomeric formula Ia, Ib or Ic, ##STR1## where R is a radical of the formula ##STR2## are effective compounds for the treatment and prophylaxis of degenerative bone disorders. They are used as pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christoph Naumann, Hans-Jochen Lang, Jurgen Sandow, Anne-Marie Moura
  • Patent number: 5641798
    Abstract: This invention provides novel bicyclic compounds which are useful as excitatory amino acid receptor antagonists and in the treatment of neurological disorders. This invention also provides intermediates useful in the synthesis of excitatory amino acid antagonists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventor: James A. Monn
  • Patent number: 5622917
    Abstract: The invention relates to new 1H-3-aryl-pyrrolidine-2,4-dione derivatives of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which A, B, X, Y and G have the meanings given in the description, to a plurality of processes for their preparation, and to their use as pesticides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reiner Fischer, Thomas Bretschneider, Bernd-Wieland Kr uger, Michael Ruther, Christoph Erdelen, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann, Hans-Joachim Santel, Markus Dollinger
  • Patent number: 5608078
    Abstract: Dipeptide compounds and analogs thereof having a phosphonomethyl moiety are disclosed. These compounds inhibit Endothelin Converting Enzyme and are thus useful in treating conditions responsive to inhibition of production of Endothelin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Merrell Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Hugues d'Orchymont, Marc Bigaud
  • Patent number: 5608045
    Abstract: Compound of formula (I): ##STR1## in which: R.sub.1 represents a hydroxyl, alkoxy or amino (unsubstituted or substituted) group,R.sub.2 represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group,X.sub.1 represents --NH--,X.sub.2 represents --O--,R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl or phenyl group,R.sub.4 represents an alkyl group which is always substituted with one or more hydroxyl, benzyloxy, benzyloxycarbonylamino, amino, mono- or dialkylamino, acetoxy or 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl groups, such groups being identical or different,R.sub.5 represents a 3-indolylmethyl, naphthylmethyl, alkyl, phenyl or benzyl group, its isomers as well as its addition salts with a pharmaceutically acceptable acid or base, and medicinal products containing the same are useful as endothelin convertase inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Adir et Compagnie
    Inventors: Guillaume de Nanteuil, Georges Remond, Tony Verbeuren
  • Patent number: 5599957
    Abstract: An optically active manganese complex of the formula I.sub.a, I.sub.b, I.sub.c and I.sub.d ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently represent hydrogen atom, C.sub.1 -.sub.4 alkyl group, phenyl group which may be substituted by a halogen atom, C.sub.1 -.sub.4 alkyl group, C.sub.1 -.sub.4 alkoxyl group, cyano group or nitro group; and any two of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 together form a C.sub.4 -.sub.8 ring, X.sup.- represents a counter anion which may form a salt, Y represents hydrogen atom, halogen atom, C.sub.1 -.sub.4 alkyl group, C.sub.1 -.sub.4 alkoxyl group, nitro group or cyano group, R represents hydrogen atom, C.sub.1 -.sub.4 alkyl group, phenyl group which may be substituted by halogen atom, C.sub.1 -.sub.4 alkyl group or C.sub.1 -.sub.4 alkoxyl group, or substituted silyl group and a process for producing epoxy compounds using the complex as a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Assignee: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Katsuki, Ryo Irie, Hidehiko Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5578634
    Abstract: A class of novel 1H-indole-3-acetic acid hydrazides is disclosed together with the use of such indole compounds for inhibiting sPLA.sub.2 mediated release of fatty acids (e.g., arachidonic acid) for treatment of conditions such as septic shock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Bach, Robert D. Dillard, Susan E. Draheim, Robert B. Hermann, Richard W. Schevitz
  • Patent number: 5521213
    Abstract: The invention encompasses the novel compound of Formula I as well as a method of treating cyclooxygenase-2 mediated diseases comprising administration to a patient in need of such treatment of a non-toxic therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula I. ##STR1## The invention also encompasses certain pharmaceutical compositions for treatment of cyclooxygenase-2 mediated diseases comprising compounds of Formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Merck Frosst Canada, Inc.
    Inventors: Petpiboon Prasit, Daniel Guay, Zhaoyin Wang, Serge Leger, Michel Therien
  • Patent number: 5502187
    Abstract: The pharmaceutically active bicyclic heterocyclic amines (XXX) ##STR1## where W.sub.1 is --N.dbd. or --CH.dbd.; W.sub.3 is --N.dbd. or --CH.dbd.; W.sub.5 is --N.dbd. or --CR.sub.5 -- with the proviso that W.sub.5 is --CR.sub.5 -- when both W.sub.1 and W.sub.3 are --N.dbd. which are useful as pharmaceuticals in treating mild and/or moderate to severe head injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage and subsequent ischemic stroke, asthma and reduction of mucous formation/secretion in the lung and other diseases and injuries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: The Upjohn Company
    Inventors: Donald E. Ayer, Gordon L. Bundy, Eric J. Jacobsen
  • Patent number: 5476847
    Abstract: Phosphinic acid derivatives of the structural formula ##STR1## or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R is H, alkyl or alkanoyloxymethylene;R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are H, alkyl, alkenyl, alkenylalkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, heteroaryl, heteroarylalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, carboxyalkyl, thioalkyl, alkoxythioalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkylaminoalkyl, cycloalkyl-substituted alkyl or heterocycloalkyl; or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 form a cycloalkyl ring of 3-8 members and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are as defined; or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 form a cycloalkyl ring of 3-7 members and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined; or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 together, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 together, each form a cycloalkyl ring;R.sub.5 is --OR.sub.9 or --NHR.sub.9, wherein R.sub.9 is hydrogen or alkyl;n is 0 or 1;A.sub.1 is p-aminobenzoyl or p-aminobenzenesulfonyl, or A.sub.1 and R.sub.5 together form a radical of an .alpha.-aminoacyl derivative; andR.sub.6 is phenylmethoxycarbonyl, arylcarbonyl, heteroarylcarbonyl or --A.sub.2 --R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Schering Corporation
    Inventors: Brian A. McKittrick, Michael F. Czarniecki, Samuel Chackalamannil, Shin Chung, Shawn DeFrees, Andrew W. Stamford
  • Patent number: 5449386
    Abstract: Amine phosphate having a terminal imide cycle resulting from the reaction, under formation conditions for an amine salt, of at least one phosphate complying with the general formula (I): ##STR1## in which n is equal to 1 or 2, R.sup.1 is a divalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 32 carbon atoms, R.sup.6 stands for a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group normally having 1 to 200 carbon atoms, with at least one amine. Preparation process in accordance with standard methods and use of these compounds as additives in fuels for engines, if appropriate in formulations containing a second constituent consisting of at least one product chosen from among the germination additives of paraffins, whereby said formulations can also contain at least one paraffin crystal growth inhibiting product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignees: Institut Francais du Petrole, Elf Antar France
    Inventors: Jacques Denis, Jacques Garapon, Alain Forestiere, Gerard Leleu, Despina Vassilakis, Robert Leger
  • Patent number: 5436245
    Abstract: Hypotensive activity is exhibited by new phosphonate substituted amino or imino acids of the formula ##STR1## isomeric mixtures thereof and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein:X is an imino or amino acid of the formula ##STR2##
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald S. Karanewsky
  • Patent number: 5420314
    Abstract: An optically active manganese complex of the formula I or I': ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 independently represent hydrogen atom, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, phenyl group which may be substituted by a halogen atom, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxyl group, cyano group or nitro group; and any two of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 together form the C.sub.4 -C.sub.8 ring, X.sup.- represents a counter anion which may form a salt, Y represents hydrogen atom, halogen atom, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxyl group, nitro group or cyano group, R represents hydrogen atom, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, phenyl group which may be substituted by halogen atom, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxyl group, or substituted silyl group and a process for producing epoxy compounds using the complex as a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Assignee: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Katsuki, Ryo Irie, Hidehiko Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5391763
    Abstract: Quinolone carboxylic acids 7 -substituted by azabicyclo groups have antibacterial activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventor: Katherine E. Brighty
  • Patent number: RE35886
    Abstract: A phosphonic acid derivative compound represented by formula ?I ! or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represent hydrocarbon groups which may be substituted, except cases in which (1) R.sub.2 is unsubstituted methyl, ( 2 ) R.sub.3 is an unsubstituted hydrocarbon group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and (3) R.sub.1 is benzyloxycarbonylaminomethyl, R.sub.2 is isobutyl and R.sub.3 is isobutyl or phenylmethyl, which has endothelin-converting enzyme inhibiting activity and is useful as pharmaceutical drugs such as therapeutic agents for hypertension, cardiac or cerebral circulatory diseases and renal diseases.This is a Reissue of a Patent which was the subject of a Reexamination Certificate No. B1 5,330,978, dated Jun. 18, 1996, Request No. 90/00400, Oct. 18, 1995.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Wakimasu, Masaaki Mori, Akira Kawada