Abstract: The invention relates to novel thienylsulphonylamino(thio)carbonyl compounds of the formula (I), in which Q represents oxygen or sulphur, R1 represents cyano, halogen or in each case optionally cyano-, halogen- or C1-C4-alkoxy-substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy or alkinyloxy having in each case up to 6 carbon atoms, R2 represents cyano, halogen or in each case optionally cyano-, halogen- or C1-C4-alkoxy-substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy or alkinyloxy having in each case up to 6 carbon atoms, and R3 represents in each case optionally substituted heterocyclyl having 5 ring members, at least one of which represents oxygen, sulphur or nitrogen and one to three others may represent nitrogen, and salts of compounds of the formula (I), to processes and novel intermediates for preparing the novel compounds and to their use as herbicides.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for the asymmetric synthesis of (S,S,R)-(−)-actinonin and its analogs and the compounds thereby synthesized having a structural formula: 1

Abstract: The present invention relates to biphenyl and biphenyl-analogous compounds, their preparation and use as pharmaceutical compositions, as integrin antagonists and in particular for the production of pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment and prophylaxis of cancer, arteriosclerosis, restenosis, osteolytic disorders such as osteoporosis and ophthalmic diseases. The compounds according to the invention have the formula (1) wherein R1, R2, U, V, A, B, W, R3, C and R4 have the meaning as defined in the claims.

Abstract: The invention relates to polycyclic aryl and heteroaryl substituted benzene compounds useful as inhibitors of serine proteases of the coagulation cascade and compounds, compositions and methods for anticoagulant therapy for the treatment and prevention of a variety of thrombotic conditions including coronary artery and cerebrovascular diseases.

Abstract: 2,3-Di-substituted N-heteroaromatic propionamides with said substitution at the 2-position being a substituted phenyl group and at the 3-position being a polar ring, said propionamides being glucokinase activators which increase insulin secretion in the treatment of type II diabetes.

Abstract: Aminotetralin derivatives and pharmacological analogs thereof which contain an N-propynyl group exhibit differential dopaminergenic receptor activity. The subject compounds are useful in affecting dopamine receptor activity, particularly in exhibiting differing activity among the various dopamine receptor subtypes. The compounds are useful in treating CNS disorders in mammals in general, and humans in particular.

Abstract: The invention relates to polycyclic aryl and heteroaryl substituted 1,4-quinone compounds useful as inhibitors of serine proteases of the coagulation cascade and compounds, compositions and methods for anticoagulant therapy for the treatment and prevention of a variety of thrombotic conditions including coronary artery and cerebrovascular diseases.

Abstract: A compound selected from the group consisting of a compound of formula I a compound of formula II and when the compound of formula I and II comprises an amino group pharmaceutically acceptable ammonium salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, Cx, n, R3, R4, R5, Y are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: Methods for production of chirally pure &agr;-amino acids and N-sulfonyl &agr;-amino acids are described. An aldehyde and a cyanide salt are reacted with an &agr;-methylbenzylamine to afford product. The product reacts with a strong acid, neutralized, and extracted. The resulting product is hydrolyzed to provide a product which is dissolved in a strong acid to provide a salt of a chirally pure &agr;-amino acid, which is reacted to provide the chirally pure &agr;-amino acid. Another method involves mixing ephedrine hemihydrate and an N-sulfonyl &agr;-ethylnorvaline in ethanol at a molar ratio of 1:1; heating the mixture to dissolve the solids; cooling to allow formation of a precipitate; washing with an organic solvent to give diastereomeric salt; recrystallizing the salt; dissolving the recrystallized salt in an organic solvent and strong aqueous acid, separating the layers; washing the organic extract; drying and concentrating to provide chirally pure N-sulfonyl &agr;-amino acid.

Abstract: Substituted 1-aminobutane-3-ol compounds, methods for producing them, pharmaceutical compounds containing them, and the use of substituted 1-aminobutane-3-ol compounds for producing pharmaceutical compounds.

Abstract: Novel “bispolyamine” inhibitor compounds of polyamine transport are disclosed. These compounds are useful pharmaceutical agents for treating diseases where it is desired to inhibit polyamine transport or other polyamine binding proteins, for example cancer and post-angioplasty injury. These compounds display desirable activities both for diagnostic and research assays and therapy.

Abstract: Compounds of Formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, T, W, X, Y and Z are as defined herein are provided, together with pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrates and/or prodrugs thereof. Methods of using these compounds for inhibiting beta amyloid production and for treatment of Alzheimer's Disease and Down's syndrome are described.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (1): 1

Abstract: The invention relates to p-thienylbenzylamides of formula (I) 1

Abstract: This invention is in the field of antiinflammatory pharmaceutical agents and specifically relates to compounds, compositions and methods for treating disorders mediated by cyclooxygenase-2 or 5-lipoxygenase, such as inflammation.

Abstract: P51084 The present invention relates to sulfonamides, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and their use as antagonists of urotensin II.

Abstract: Bis-sulfonamido hydroxyethylamino compounds are effective as retroviral protease inhibitors, and in particular as inhibitors of HIV protease. The present invention relates to retroviral protease inhibiting compounds of the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug or ester thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein.

Abstract: Compounds of this invention increase plasma levels of high density lipoprotein or HDL, the “good” cholesterol and as such may be useful for treating diseases such as atherosclerosis.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel thienylsulphonylamino(thio)carbonyl compounds of the formula (I), in which Q represents oxygen or sulphur, R1 represents cyano, halogen or in each case optionally cyano-, halogen- or C1-C4-alkoxy-substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy or alkinyloxy having in each case up to 6 carbon atoms, R2 represents cyano, halogen or in each case optionally cyano-, halogen- or C1-C4-alkoxy-substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy or alkinyloxy having in each case up to 6 carbon atoms, and R3 represents in each case optionally substituted heterocyclyl having 5 ring members, at least one of which represents oxygen, sulphur or nitrogen and one to three others may represent nitrogen, and salts of compounds of the formula (I), to processes and novel intermediates for preparing the novel compounds and to their use as herbicides.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula and salts thereof wherein the substituents are defined as in accordance with the specification useful for the treatment of tumor growth, osteoporosis, inflammation and cardiovascular disorders.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds which inhibit proteases, including cathepsin K, pharmaceutical compositions of such compounds, and methods for treating diseases of excessive bone loss or cartilage or matrix degradation, including osteoporosis; gingival disease including gingivitis and periodontitis; arthritis, more specifically, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis; Paget's disease; hypercalcemia of malignancy; and metabolic bone disease, comprising inhibiting said bone loss or excessive cartilage or matrix degradation by administering to a patient in need thereof a compound of the present invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing N-(5-amino-2-cyano-4-fluoro-phenyl)-sulphonamides in which, in a first step, 2-amino-4,5-difluoro-benzonitrile is reacted with sulphonyl halides in the presence of an acid acceptor and in the presence of a diluent at temperatures between 0° C. and 150° C. and, in a second step, the N-(2-cyano-4,5-difluoro-phenyl)-sulphonamides and/or N-(2-cyano-4,5-difluoro-phenyl)-sulphonimides obtained in the first step are as pure substances or as mixtures with ammonia in the presence of a diluent reacted at a temperature between 100° C. and 200° C. The invention furthermore relates to novel intermediates of the process.

Abstract: Cyano and carboxy derivatives of substituted styrenes are inhibitors of tumor necrosis factor &agr;, nuclear factor &kgr;B, and phosphodiesterase and can be used to combat cachexia, endotoxic shock, retrovirus replication, asthma, and inflammatory conditions. A typical embodiment is 3,3-bis-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)acrylonitrile.

Abstract: This invention provides a class of therapeutic compounds and methods for the treatment of mammals with physiological disorders, such as for example a frequently occurring type of essential hypertension, which are critically associated with the decreased binding of magnesium to the plasma membranes of their cells. These methods consist of administering to a mammal in need of such treatment a compound selected from a series of disubstituted trans, trans 1,3-butadienes, 1,3-disubstituted perhydrobutadienes, 1,2-disubstituted trans ethylenes and 1,2 disubstituted ethanes and disubstitutedpropanes, each of which embodies, in common, the unique structural feature essential for the biological activity of these compounds. This invention also provides for pharmaceutical formulations that employ these novel compounds.

Abstract: The invention concerns novel compound of general formula (1) in which: P, T1, T2, X and n are as defined in claim 1, their tautomeric forms, and their additive salts with pharmaceutically acceptable bases. The invention also concerns methods for preparing these compounds and their applications as medicines. These compounds inhibit the aldose reductase enzyme and can be used in the treatment or prevention of peripheral and autonomous neurological diabetic complications, renal and ocular disorders such as cataract and retinopathy.

Abstract: This invention relates to a series of substituted benzophenone and sulfone compounds of the formula I wherein ring A, Z, Y, R and X are defined as in the specification, that exhibit activity as glycine transport inhibitors, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and their use for the enhancement of cognition and the treatment of the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia and other psychoses in mammals, including humans.

Abstract: The invention relates to p-thienylbenzylamides of formula (I) 1

Abstract: Compounds having the structure shown below wherein A, B, N1, N2, X, Y, Q, R2, R5 and R6 are as defined herein are useful to inhibit serine protease enzymes, such as TF/factor VIIa factor Xa, thrombin and kallikrein. These compounds may be used in methods of preventing and/or treating clotting disorders.

Abstract: Succinoylamino hydroxyethylamino sulfonamide compounds are effective as retroviral protease inhibitors, and in particular as inhibitors of HIV protease.

Abstract: Tetrahydrothiophene derivatives of the formula (I) R1—X—(A1—M1)a—(A2—M2)b—A3—Y—T—Z—R2  (I) where the symbols and indices have the following meanings, for example: T is undirected and is tetrahydrothiophene-2,5-diyl or tetrahydrothiophene-2,4-diyl R1 is hydrogen or a straight-chain or branched C1-20-alkyl or C2-20-alkenyl radical (with or without asymmetric carbon atoms), R2 is hydrogen or a straight-chain or branched alkyl radical (with or without asymmetric carbon atoms) having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, X is a single bond, —O—, OC(═O)—, —C(═O)O— or —OC(═O)O— Y is —OC(═O)—, —SC(═O)—, —OCH2— or —CH2CH2— Z is a single bond or —O— A1, A2 and A3 are undirected different and are each, independently of one another phenylene-1,4-diyl, M1 and M2 are undirected and are each, independently of one another —OC(&boxH

Abstract: An amidoaromatic ring sulfonamide hydroxamic acid compound that inter alia inhibits matrix metalloprotease activity is disclosed, as are a treatment process that comprises administering a contemplated amidoaromatic ring sulfonamide hydroxamic acid compound in a MMP enzyme-inhibiting effective amount to a host having a condition associated with pathological matrix metalloprotease activity.

Abstract: Tertiary amines of the formula wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, M, p, T and Q are as defined herein, and acid addition salts thereof, have antimycotic and cholesterol-lowering activity.

Abstract: A compound of the formula wherein R1 and R2 are as defined above, useful in the treatment and condition selected from the group consisting of meningitis and salpingitis, septic shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and/or adult respiratory distress syndrome, acute or chronic inflammation, arthritis, cholangitis, colitis, encephalitis, endocarditis, glomerulonephritis, hepatitis, myocarditis, pancreatitis, pericarditis, reperfusion injury, vasculitis, acute and delayed hypersensitivity, graft rejection, and graft-versus-host disease, auto-immune diseases including Type 1 diabetes mellitus and multiple sclerosis, periodonate diseases, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, cirrhosis, systemic sclerosis, keloid formation, tumors which produce IL-1 as an autocrine growth factor, cachexia, Alzheimers disease, percussion injury, depression, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis in a mammal, including a human.

Abstract: Biphenylsulfonamides and methods for modulating or altering the activity of the endothelin family of peptides are provided. In particular, bicyclic or tricyclic carbon or heterocyclic ring biphenylsulfonamides and methods using these sulfonamides for inhibiting the binding of an endothelin peptide to an endothelin receptor by contacting the receptor with the sulfonamide are provided. Methods for treating endothelin-mediated disorders by administering effective amounts of one or more of these sulfonamides or prodrugs thereof that inhibit or increase the activity of endothelin are also provided.

Abstract: Novel &agr;-amino acid amides of formula (I) as well as possible isomers and mixtures of isomers thereof, wherein the substituents are defined as follows: n is the number zero or one; R1 is optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, aryl or arylalkyl; or a group NRaRb wherein Ra and Rb are each independently of the other hydrogen, alkyl or form together an alkylene bridge; R2 is hydrogen or alkyl; R3 is optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl; A is alkylene; and B is optionally substituted aryl; with the exception of the following compounds 2-phenyl-N-(1-phenyl-ethyl)-2-(4-methylphenyl)-sulfonylamino-acetamide, 2-phenyl-N-(1-phenyl-ethyl)-2-(4-chlorophenyl)-sulfonylamino-acetamide, 2-phenyl-N-(1-phenyl-ethyl)-2-(4-nitrolphenyl)-sulfonylamino-acetamide, 2-phenyl-N-(1-phenyl-ethyl)-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)-sulfonylamino-acetamide, 2-phenyl-N-(1-phenyl-ethyl)-2-(4-fluorophenyl)-sulfonylamino-acetamide, 2-phenyl-N-(1-phenyl-ethyl)-2-phenyl-sulfonylamino-acetamide and 2-phenyl-N-(1-p

Abstract: Bis-sulfonamido hydroxyethylamino compounds are effective as retroviral protease inhibitors, and in particular as inhibitors of HIV protease. The present invention relates to retroviral protease inhibiting compounds of the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug or ester thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds having usefulness in the control of Take-AIl disease in plants, particularly cereals, a method for the control of Take-All disease, and fungicidal compositions for carrying out the method. Compounds of the invention are oximes or hydrazones of arylgloxamides or heteroarylglyoxamides or cycloalkenylglyoxamides.

Abstract: The use of a compound of the formula (I): wherein: ring C is phenyl or carbon-linked heteroaryl selected from pyridyl, pyrazinyl, pyrimidinyl and pyridazinyl; and wherein said phenyl or heteroaryl is substituted as defined herein; A—B is selected from NHCO, OCH2, SCH2, NHCH2, trans-vinylene, and ethynylene; R1 is linked to ring C at a carbon ortho to the position of A—B attachment and is defined herein; n is 1 or 2; R2 and R3 are alkyl, haloalkyl or together from cycloalkyl or halocycloalkyl as defined herein; in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the elevation of PDH activity in warm-blooded animals such as humans is described. Salts and esters of compounds of formula (I) are also described.

Abstract: Compounds of 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 metalloproteinases is involved

Abstract: The invention relates to new imides, to a plurality of processes for their preparation and to their use as fungicides.

Abstract: This invention is directed to benzenamine derivatives of formula (I): wherein A, W, m, n, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are defined herein. These compounds are useful as anti-coagulants.

Abstract: Thienyl-, furyl- and pyrrolyl-sulfonamides and methods for modulating or altering the activity of the endothelin family of peptides are provided. In particular, N-(isoxazolyl)thienylsulfonamides, N-(isoxazolyl)furylsulfonamides and N-(isoxazolyl)pyrrolylsulfonamides and methods using these sulfonamides for inhibiting the binding of an endothelin peptide to an endothelin receptor by contacting the receptor with the sulfonamide are provided. Methods for treating endothelin-mediated disorders by administering effective amounts of one or more of these sulfonamides or prodrugs thereof that inhibit or increase the activity of endothelin are also provided.

Abstract: Compounds useful as potassium channel inhibitors and especially useful for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and cell proliferative disorders are described.

Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the formula where R1-R5 are each, independently, a hydrogen atom or a normal or branched C1-C6-alkyl group; A is a methionyl, phenylalanyl or phenylglycyl residue; n is 0 or 1; R6 is a hydrogen atom; and R7 is a carbocylic group, an aromatic group, a C1-C4-alkyl group, a pyridylalkyl group or a heterocyclic group. In another embodiment, R6 is benzyl or —C(O)OR8, where R8 is a C1-C6-alkyl group, and R7 is a heteroaromatic group, such as a 2-thiazolyl group.

Abstract: O-Benzyloxime ethers of the formula I where X is substituted or unsubstituted CH2, NOalkyl Y is O, S, NR5 R1, R2, R5 are H, alkyl Z1, Z2 are H, halogen, methyl, methoxy, cyano R3, R4 are hydrogen, cyano, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, alkylthio, benzylthio, alkylcarbonyl, substituted or unsubstituted phenylcarbonyl, substituted or unsubstituted benzylcarbonyl, alkoxycarbonyl, substituted or unsubstituted phenoxycarbonyl, substituted or unsubstituted benzyloxycarbonyl, N(R6)2, where R6 is H, alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, —CO—N(R7)2, where R7 is H, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy, substituted or unsubstituted arylthio, substituted or unsubstituted hetaryl, substituted or unsubstituted hetaryloxy, substituted or unsubstituted hetarylthio, substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclyl, substituted or unsubstituted heterocy

Abstract: Succinoylamino hydroxyethylamino sulfonamide compounds are effective as retroviral protease inhibitors, and in particular as inhibitors of HIV protease.

Abstract: Urocanic acid derivatives useful as antiallergic agents represented by the following formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof: wherein R2 denotes hydrogen or lower alkyl, R3 denotes nitro, amino, cyano or COOR2, wherein R2 in said COOR2 is as defined above, and Q denotes carbon or nitrogen.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing N-(5-amino-2-cyano-4-fluoro-phenyl)-sulphonamides in which, in a first step, 2-amino-4,5-difluoro-benzonitrile is reacted with sulphonyl halides in the presence of an acid acceptor and in the presence of a diluent at temperatures between 0° C. and 150° C. and, in a second step, the N-(2-cyano-4,5-difluoro-phenyl)-sulphon-amides and/or N-(2-cyano-4,5-difluoro-phenyl)-sulphonamides obtained in the first step are as pure substances or as mixtures with ammonia in the presence of a diluent reacted at a temperature between 100° C. and 200° C. The invention furthermore relates to novel intermediates of the process.

Abstract: The invention relates to 2-benzoylcyclohexane-1,3-diones of the formula I where R1, R2 are hydrogen, nitro, halogen, cyano, thiocyanato, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, —OR5, —OCOR6, —OSO2R6, —SH, —S(O)nR7, —SO2OR5, —SO2NR5R8, —NR8SO2R6 or —NR8COR6; R3 is hydrogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl; R4 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, alkynyl, —COR9, —CO2R9, —COSR9 or —CONR8R9; X is oxygen or sulfur; Z is oxygen or NR8; m is 0 or 1; n is 0, 1 or 2; R5 is hydrogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl; R6 is alkyl or haloalkyl; R7 is alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl; R8 is hydrogen or alkyl; R9 is alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, phenyl or benzyl; R10 is alkyl, haloalkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl; Q is an unsubstituted or substituted cyclohexane-1,3-dione ring which is linked in the 2-position; where m is 1 if R3 is

Abstract: Compounds of general formula (I) wherein R4 is an ester or thioester group and R, R1, R2, and R3 are as specified in the description, inhibit intracellular Leukotriene A4 hydrolase activity and are therefore of value for the treatment of inflammatory disease.