Abstract: The invention relates to certain cis and trans benzopyrans having substituted benzamides at position C-4 and to their use in treating and/or preventing certain CNS disorders.

Abstract: Certain flavonoids, notably derivatives of flavone, chrysin and apigenin, together with dimers thereof such as amentoflavone, have been found to possess anxiolytic properties (i.e., anxiety reducing properties) without exhibiting a sedative effect. Novel compounds and pharmaceutical formulations are also described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to flavanonol derivatives represented by formula (1): ##STR1## (wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group, and each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group which may have a substituent, an alkoxyl group which may have a substituent, a hydroxyl group, a cyano group, or a halogen atom), as well as to hair-nourishing and hair-growing compositions containing the derivatives. The compounds accelerate differentiation and proliferation of hair matrix cells, thereby exhibiting remarkable hair-nourishing and hair-growing effects.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chromone derivative and an aldose reductase inhibitor comprising said compound as efective component, which is represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent a lower alkyl group, etc., R.sub.3 represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, etc., R.sub.7 represents a phenyl group substituted or not substituted, etc., and R represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkoxy group. The present compounds exhibit superior inhititory action on aldose reductase and are useful for the treatment of various complications of diseases in diabetes, such as cataract, retinopathy, keratopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy.

Abstract: Polychromatic compounds of pyrans having a substituted adamantane or a polycyclic ring system, with the exception of adamantane, in the 2-position of the pyran ring, having the structure ##STR1## whereby the residues R.sub.1 -R.sub.4 are independently substituents selected from the series H, alkyl, substituted phenyl, phenyl, naphthyl, OH, alkoxy (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4), halogen, alkylamino, dialkylamino, cyan, trifluormethyl, or, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 or R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are constituents of at least one condensed aromatic, heteroaromatic or an alkane ring, wherein said heteroaromatic ring is selected from the group consisting of pyridine, pyrimidine, pyridazine, quinoline, isoquinoline, naphthyridine, quinazoline, quinoxaline, phthalazine, pteridine, phenazine, and benzoquinoline which are substituted by the same residues as R.sub.1 -R.sub.

Abstract: Process for enriching the concentration of an enantiomer (or a diastereomer) in a mixture of optically active isomers. The process includes preparing a solution containing the mixture of the optically active isomers and a chiral collector in which the chiral collector and the enantiomer (or diastereomer) are associated with each other. A gas is bubbled through a pool of the solution to form a foam, the surfaces of the bubbles in the foam having the chiral collector and the enantiomer (or diastereomer) preferentially adsorbed thereto so that the concentration ratio of the optically active isomers at said bubble surfaces differs from that in the bulk of the pool. The foam is moved vertically through a column above the pool such that during said movement at least a portion of the bubbles comprising the foam break thereby allowing liquid to drain toward the pool to provide an internal reflux within the column.

Abstract: Photoactive indicator compounds of the formula ##STR1##

Abstract: A method is provided for the regioselective, palladium catalyzed carbo- or heteroannulation of internal alkynes by aryl iodides containing o-substituted side chains to yield aromatic carbocyclic and heterocyclic ring systems.

Abstract: The invention relates to amidinophenylalanine derivatives, to the synthesis of these compounds, to their use and to pharmaceutical compositions which contain these compounds which act as thrombin inhibitors.

Abstract: Proton-transfer, low self-absorbing chromophores of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are independently hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, cyano, nitro, halo or an ether group, R.sub.4 is O or N--H, and R.sub.5 is thienyl, naphthyl, furanyl, pyrrolyl, phenyl vinyl, diphenyl vinyl, phenyl ethynyl, hydroxy chromonyl phenyl, didecyloxy hydroxy chromonyl phenyl, phenyl or ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 is vinyl, vinyl phenyl, vinyl benzyl, alkyl ethenyl, or alkyl phenyl ethenyl, provided that when R.sub.5 is phenyl and R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are hydrogen, R.sub.4 is N--H.

Abstract: The invention relates to benzopyran leukotriene B.sub.4 (LTB.sub.4) antagonists and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds. The compounds inhibit the action of LTB.sub.4 and are therefore useful in the treatment of LTB.sub.4 induced illnesses such as inflammatory disorders.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chromone derivative of formula (1): ##STR1## (wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different and independently represent a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group) as well as a synthetic intermediate thereof and an aldose reductase inhibitor comprising said derivative as an active ingredient. The chromone derivatives of the present invention can be easily synthesized, and are useful as aldose reductase inhibitor with an excellent inhibitory action on aldose reductase.

Abstract: This invention relates to certain hydroxy derivatives of 3,4-dihydro-2,5,7,8-tetraalkyl-2H-1-benzopyran-2-carboxylic acids and the lactones thereof, to the processes and intermediates useful for their preparation and to their use as free radical scavengers useful in the treatment of tissue damage implicated with free oxygen radicals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chromone derivative and an aldose reductase inhibitor comprising said compound as efective component, which is represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent a lower alkyl group, etc., R.sub.3 represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, etc., R.sub.7 represents a phenyl group substituted or not substituted, etc., and R represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkoxy group. The present compounds exhibit superior inhititory action on aldose reductase and are useful for the treatment of various complications of diseases in diabetes, such as cataract, retinopathy, keratopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy.

Abstract: Novel bicyclic amides of the formula ##STR1## wherein Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 are phenyl, R.sup.2 -substituted phenyl, heteroaryl or R.sup.2 -substituted heteroaryl, wherein R.sup.2 is 1 to 3 substituents independently selected from the group consisting of halogeno, hydroxy, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, nitro, amino, lower alkylamino and lower dialkylamino;X, Y and Z are --CH.sub.2 --, --CH(alkyl)--, --C(alkyl).sub.2 --, --NH--, --N(alkyl)--, --O-- or --SO.sub.r, wherein r is 0, 1 or 2, and m, n and p are 0 or 1;R.sup.1 is an alkyl chain of 1 to 25 carbon atoms; an alkyl chain substituted by one or more optionally substituted phenyl or heteroaryl groups; an alkyl chain --O--, --SO.sub.r, phenylene, R.sup.2 -substituted phenylene, heteroarylene or R.sup.

Abstract: The invention relates to benzopyranone and benzothiopyranone compounds, compositions and methods of use which have adrenergic and serotonergic activity.

Abstract: A modified alkali metal or ammonium huminate being made from molecules of the group consisting of ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are individually hydrogen or --OH, R.sub.2 is ##STR2## or --CH.sub.2 -- and R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are individually selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, --OH and --OCH.sub.3, with the proviso that R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are not all hydrogen at the same time and their preparation and their medical uses.

Abstract: Sigma binding site agents having the formula ##STR1## wherein A.sup.1, A.sup.2, A.sup.3, B, y and 2 are defined in the specification, W is halogen, which are novel intermediates useful in preparing the presently binding site agents.

Abstract: Sigma binding site agents having the formula ##STR1## which are useful to inhibit sigma binding site-induced activity, pharmaceutical compositions including these agents, and methods of using these agents to inhibit sigma binding site-induced activity in mammals. Also disclosed are novel intermediates useful in preparing the presently invented agents.

Abstract: Substituted hexahydrobenzopyran derivatives of the Formulae A, B, or C are useful as angiotensin II antagonists: ##STR1##

Abstract: Novel chroman derivatives of the formula I ##STR1## in which X is O or NR.sup.11,Z is CH.sub.2, O, S or CHHal,R.sup.1 and R.sup.5 are each A,R.sup.2 is H or A,R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together are also alkylene having 3-6 C atoms,R.sup.3 is OH or OAc,R.sup.4 is H,R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 together are also a bond,R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are each H, A, HO, AO, CHO, ACO, ACS, HOOC, AOOC, AO--CS, ACOO, A--CS--O, hydroxyalkyl, NO.sub.2, NH.sub.2, NHA, NA.sub.2, CN, F, Cl, Br, I, CF.sub.3, ASO, ASO.sub.2, AO--SO, AO--SO.sub.2, AcNH, AO--CO--NH, H.sub.2 NSO, HANSO, A.sub.2 NSO, H.sub.2 NSO.sub.2, HANSO.sub.2, A.sub.2 NSO.sub.2, H.sub.2 NCO, HANCO, A.sub.2 NCO, H.sub.2 NCS, HANCS, A.sub.2 NCS, ASONH, ASO.sub.2 NH, AOSONH, AOSO.sub.2 NH, ACO-alkyl, nitro-alkyl, cyanoalkyl, A--C(.dbd.NOH) or A--C(.dbd.NNH.sub.2),R.sup.8 and R.sup.9 are each H or A or together are .dbd.O or .dbd.S,R.sup.10 is H, Hal, CHO or CH.sub.2 OH,R.sup.11 is H, A, Ac or CH.sub.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for the preparation of (.+-.)-6-cyano-3,4-dihydro-2,2-dimethyl-trans-4-(2-oxo-1-pyrrol idino)-2H-1-benzopyran-3-ol of the Formula (VI) ##STR1## from 4-cyanophenol of the Formula (I) ##STR2## which comprises reacting 4-cyanophenol of the Formula (I) with isoprene, followed with bromination and dehydrobromination steps with formation of intermediates to react with 2-pyrrolidone resulting in obtaining the compound of the Formula (VI).

Abstract: Compounds useful as antiviral agents against DNA containing viruses, such as herpes group viruses, are disclosed. The compounds are selected from the group consisting of: ##STR1## and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates. Pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds represented by Formula 1.00 are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of treating a viral infection using compounds represented by Formula 1.00The compounds of Formula 1.00 are also useful as intermediates to compounds of: ##STR2## Compounds of Formula 1.0 are useful as antiviral agents against the same viruses that the compounds of Formula 1.00 are useful against.

Abstract: Novel aromatic amine derivatives of specific structure are useful intermediates for herbicides. The aromatic amine compounds have the structure shown by formula [I]: ##STR1## wherein Ar and A are as defined herein.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which: Z represents a halogen or a cyano, acetyl, trifluoroacetyl, nitro, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylthio, carboxyl, phosphono, dialkoxyphosphonyl or alkoxycarbonyl group, the alkylthio and alkoxy groups containing from 1 to 3 carbon atoms;R.sub.1 denotes a hydroxyl group and R.sub.2 represents hydrogen, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 taken together form an additional bond between the carbon atoms by which they are carried; andR.sub.3 representsa group NH--X--R.sub.4, in which X denotes a direct bond or an SO.sub.2 group and R.sub.4 represents a phenyl group which is unsubstituted or monosubstituted or disubstituted by a halogen, a nitro group, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 group, a trifluoromethyl group, an amino group, a group --N(Alk).sub.2, a group --COOAlk or a group OAlk, Alk denoting a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 Alkyl group;a group --S--R.sub.5, in which R.sub.5 represents a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel bicyclo ether derivatives, to compositions containing them, and to their method of use especially to control the growth of undesired vegetation in rice.

Abstract: Substituted six-membered benzo-fused heterocycles of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which: X=0, NH, S.fwdarw.(O).sub.n (n=0 or 2);R.sub.1 is phenyl, phenyl substituted by methoxy, hydroxy, chlorine, fluorine, diethylaminoethoxy, phenoxy, 2-methyl-4-thiazolyl, 2-amino-4-thiazolyl, phenyl, amino, nitro, terbutyl, carboxymethyl, acetamido, dimethyltriazenyl, benzoyl, hexyl, undecyl, trifluoromethyl, carbamoyl; or R.sub.1 is trifluoromethyl, pyridyl-2,pyridyl-4;R.sub.2 is H, methoxy, hydroxy; orR.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH--;R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are methoxy, hydroxy, fluorine or form a fused benzene ring;CR.sub.5 R.sub.6 R.sub.7 is carboxymethyl, --CH.sub.2 --PO.sub.3 H,--CH.sub.2 --PO(oET).sub.2, 4-methylpiperazinyl, aminomethyl,3-4-5-trimethoxyphenylaminomethyl, acetyl, bromoacetyl, hydroxyethyl, acetoxyethyl, mercaptomethyl, acetylthiomethyl, methoxy-carbopnylthiomethyl, --CH--CONH.sub.2, ##STR2## substituted thiazolyl, subsituted furanone, imidazo(1,2-a)pyridinyl, indolizinyl, or R.sub.4 and R.

Abstract: New benz[b]pyranes and pyranopyridines of formula I, ##STR1## wherein the significances of substituents V, T, W, R.sub.3 to R.sub.5, R.sub.9, R.sub.10, m, X, Y and Z are given in claim 1 and their N-oxides and their salts and their use in the treatment of raised blood pressure in the treatment of vascular disorders and other disorders in which a reduction in tension of the smooth muscles is therapeutically useful, as well as in the treatment of hair loss and baldness. Further the compounds are useful in the treatment of asthma and obstructive disorders of the respiratory system as well as in the prophylactic treatment of obstructive or inflammatory airways disease, for example asthma, as well as novel pharmaceutical compositions comprising said K.sup.+ channel activators suitable for such use.

Abstract: Novel aromatic amine derivatives of specific structure are useful intermediates for herbicides. The aromatic amine compounds have the structure shown by formula [I]: ##STR1## wherein Ar and A are as defined herein.

Abstract: This invention relates to a 4H-1-benzopyran-4-one derivative represented by the formula: ##STR1## or a salt thereof, a process for producing the same and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same as active ingredient.

Abstract: Novel HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors are useful as antihypercholesterolemic agents and are represented by stuctural formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein A is O, S(O).sub.n or N--R.sub.13.

Abstract: This invention relates to novel compounds of formula [I], a process for their production, and their use as a herbicide. ##STR1## wherein A represents the bond ##STR2## in which X is a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom, a nitro group or a trifluoromethyl group;B represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or a methoxy group; andAr represents one member selected from the group consisting of ##STR3## in which R.sup.1 to R.sup.38, are as defined hereinafter.

Abstract: An aromatic benzopyranyl or benzothiopyranyl compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein n is 0 or 1,X represents ##STR2## R' represents H, OH, acyloxy or NH.sub.2, R" represents H or alkoxy orR' and R" taken together form an oxo, methano or hydroxyimino radical,R.sub.8 represents H, ##STR3## R.sub.9 represents H, alkyl, mono or polyhydroxyalkyl, aryl, aralkyl, a residue of a sugar or ##STR4## p equals 1, 2 or 3, r' and r" represent H, alkyl, monohydroxyalkyl, polyhydroxyalkyl, aryl, benzyl, the residue of an amino acid or an aminated sugar, or together form a heterocycle,R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represents H or lower alkyl,R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 represent H or methyl or when n=1, R.sub.5 and R.sub.7 taken together form with the benzene ring a naphthalene ring (R.sub.5 -R.sub.7 .dbd.--CH.dbd.CH--), andthe salts of said compounds as well as their geometric and optical isomers.These compounds are useful in pharmaceutical and cosmetic compositions.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds comprising lipophilic complexes of silybin, silidianin, and silicristin with phospholipids, and the preparation of these complexes by non-conventional methods. Absorption of the novel compounds in the gastrointestinal tract is appreciably greater, resulting in higher plasma levels than for the individual flavanolignans. The resulting improvement in the pharmacokinetic and pharmacological parameters is such that the substances can advantageously be used in the treatment of acute and chronic liver disease of toxic, metabolic or infective origin or of degenerative nature.

Abstract: Sulfide derivatives of catechins derived from condensed tannins have broad spectrum biocidal characteristics. Epicatechin-4-alkylsulfides and cupric complexes thereof containing up to 20, preferably 5 to 15, carbon atoms are particularly effective biocides against wood rotting fungi and gram-positive bacteria.Such sulfides are prepared by reacting condensed tannin, either in the form of a purified tannin extract or comminuted plant tissue, with an appropriate thiol under mild acidic conditions.

Abstract: Novel bicyclooxyaryl thioureas are provided together with methods for their preparation and use as the active toxicant in pesticidal compositions.

Abstract: The invention relates to pharmaceutical preparations containing compounds of formula I ##STR1## in which X.sub.1 and X.sub.2, independently of each other, represent hydrogen, halogen, unsubstituted or substituted amino or a quaternary ammonium salt; etherified or esterified hydroxy; free, etherified, esterified or oxidized mercapto; nitro; functionally modified formyl; free or functionally modified carboxyl; acyl; an unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon radical, or an unsubstituted or substituted heterocyclic radical; with the proviso that at least one of the radicals X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 is bonded by a carbon atom to the ring system and with the proviso that X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 cannot be together halogen and formyl; in which Y represents oxygen, sulfur, sulfinyl or sulfonyl but must be sulfur, sulfinyl or sulfonyl, if X.sub.1 is hydrogen and X.sub.

Abstract: Compounds of formula II and X ##STR1## wherein X is O, S, SO.sub.2, methylene, isopropylidene or NCOR.sub.7 where R.sub.7 is alkyl or phenyl, Y is a direct bond or methylene, n is 1 or 2, R.sub.4 is alkyl, phenyl, naphthyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, camphoryl, CF.sub.3, CCl.sub.3, F or NH.sub.2 ; or is alkylene, phenylene or naphthylene, R.sub.5 is hydrogen or halogen, R.sub.6 is hydrogen, alkyl, phenyl or cyano, R.sub.8 is substituted phenyl, substituted naphthyl, anthryl or phenanthryl, R.sub.9 is alkyl R.sub.10 is alkyl or substituted phenyl, and R.sub.11 is alkyl, substituted phenyl, naphthyl, camphoryl, alkylene, phenylene or naphthylene, are latent curing catalysts for acid-curable stoving lacquers. They are distinguished by satisfactory solubility in the acid-curable resin systems, can be stored virtually indefinitely in the dark and, when exposed to shortwave light, make it possible to cure the resins by acid catalysts at a relatively low temperature.

Abstract: Compounds of the Formula I: ##STR1## and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are leukotriene antagonists. These compounds inhibit SRS-A and leukotriene synthesis and are antagonists of SRS-A and are thus useful in the treatment of asthma, allergic disorders, inflammation, skin diseases and certain cardiovascular disorders.

Abstract: Novel 2,4-diaminopyrimidines having substituted heterobicyclomethyl moieties in the 5-position have superior antibacterial properties.

Abstract: Novel piperazinoethyl ureas are prepared by reacting an aminoethyl piperazine with urea and recovering the monosubstituted urea product. These products are useful as curing agents for epoxy resins.

Abstract: A benzopyran compound represented by the following ##STR1## wherein A represents a direct bond or the bond --CH.sub.2 --O--,R.sub.1 represents a member selected from the group consisting of a C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 alkyl group, a hydroxy-(C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 alkyl) group, a lower alkylamino-lower alkyl group, a nitrato-(C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 alkyl) group and a phenyl-(C.sub.1 -C.sub.5) alkyl group, provided that the phenyl may be substituted by a lower alkoxy group, R.sub.2 represents a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, OH, NO.sub.2, a carbamoyl group, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a lower alkyleneoxy group and acetyl group,R.sub.3 represents hydrogen or NO.sub.2,B represents a direct bond, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkylene group, a --O-lower alkylene group or a --CONH-lower alkylene group, andn represents 1 or 2;and an acid addition salt thereof and a pharmaceutical composition comprising aforesaid compound.

Abstract: Antiviral compositions containing 3-alkoxyflavone compounds as their active ingredients are disclosed.