Hoffmann-la Roche Inc.

Boehringer Mannheim Gmbh

Roche Diagnostics Gmbh

Hans-Peter Wolff

Ernst-Christian Witte

Hans-Frieder K&uuml;hnle

Walter-Gunar Friebe

Alfred Mertens

Hans-Willi Krell

Johannes Pill

Markus Meyer

Karlheinz Stegmeier

Peter Freund

Christine Schuell

Sabine Woelle

Sabine Bauer

Tobias Schnitzer

Use of thiazolidinedione derivatives for the preparation of medicaments for inhibiting or reducing tumour growth or metastases, alone or in combination with an RXR agonist or well-known antitumour agent.

Thiazolidinediones alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents for inhibiting or reducing tumour growth

Thiazolidinecarboxyl acids

Method for producing thiazolidinediones, and new thiazolidinediones

Improved process of compound of formula III

Thiazolidinediones and drugs containing them

The present invention provides sulphonylphenylalkylamines of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl radical containing up to 6 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl radical containing 3-7 carbon atoms or an aralkyl, aralkenyl or aryl radical, the aryl moiety, in each case, being optionally substituted one or more times by halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkoxy, hydroxyl, trifluoromethyl, cyano, nitro, amino, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkylamino, C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 dialkylamino, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 acylamino, C.sub.1 -C.sub.16 acyl or azide, R.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical containing up to 6 carbon atoms, an acyl radical or an aralkyl or aralkenyl radical, the aryl moiety, in each case, optionally being substituted one or more times by halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkoxy, hydroxyl, trifluoromethyl, cyano, nitro, amino, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkylamino, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 dialkylamino, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 acylamino, C.sub.1 -C.sub.16 acyl or azide, B is an unbranched or branched alkylene chain with a maximum of 4 carbon atoms and A an alkyl or alkenyl radical containing up to 6 carbon atoms, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 formylalkyl radical, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 hydroxy-alkyl group or a radical --D--R.sub.3, in which D is a ##STR2## and R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkyl, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 hydroxyalkyl or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkylcarboxylic acid radical, as well as the pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof, the esters and amides thereof and the lactones of those compounds which contain a hydroxyl and a carboxyl group, with the exception of the compound benzene-sulphonic acid-(4-acetylphenethylamide). The present invention also provides processes for the preparation of these compounds and pharmaceutical compositions containing them.

Sulphonylalkylamines, processes for the preparation thereof and

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Weinheim, Germany

Hans-Peter Wolff