Syntex (u.s.a.) Inc.

Gregory Ricardo Martinez

Keith Adrian Walker

David Bruce Repke

Roger L Whiting

Owen W Gooding

Philip Jay Teitelbaum

The present invention relates to novel benzocycloalkylazolethione compounds which are dopamine .beta.-hydroxylase inhibitors in which the benzocycloalkyl portion of the compound is selected from indanyl, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalenyl and 6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-5H-benzocycloheptenyl (in which the benzo is optionally substituted with one to three substituents) and the azolethione portion of the compound is selected from 2-thioxo-2,3-dihydro-1H-imidazol-3-yl, 5-thioxo-4,5-dihydro-1H-�1,2,4!triazol-4-yl and 5-thioxo-4,5-dihydro-1H-�1,2,4!triazol-1-yl (each optionally substituted with one to three substituents); and the prodrugs, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, individual isomers and mixtures of isomers and the methods of using and preparing such benzocycloalkylazolethione compounds.

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