Cassella Aktiengesellschaft

Heinz Bender

Rudi Beyerle

Piero A Martorana

Ursula Schindler

Karl-Heinz Keil

Klaus Kuhlein

Rolf-Eberhard Nitz

Steffen Piesch

Kuno Reh

Heinz G Greve

Veit Buch

Aryl-substituted piperazinones and their physiologically-acceptable acid-addition salts have a useful nootropic action. They are administered enterally or parenterally in conventional dosage forms.

2-(aryl substitued)piperazinones and nootropic compositions based thereon

In a process for the preparation of optionally-substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-9-cyanomethylcarbazol-1-ones of the formula ##STR1## wherein R denotes hydrogen, halogen, alkyl or alkoxy, by cyano-methylating optionally substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarbazol-1-ones of the formula ##STR2## wherein R has the meanings mentioned above, the starting material of formula II is reacted, in a two-phase system consisting of water and a water-immiscible organic solvent, in the presence of a strong base and a known phase transfer catalyst, with a cyanomethylating agent of the formula

Process for the preparation of optionally-substituted

The present invention relates to new, pharmacologically valuable 2,4,5,6-tetrahydro-1H-pyrazino-[3,2,1-jk]-carbazoles substituted in the 8-position having the formula I ##STR1## wherein R stands for an alkyl or alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a fluorine, chlorine or bromine atom comprising reacting a 6,9-disubstituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarbazol-1-one of the formula II ##STR2## and X denotes a bromine, chlorine or iodine atom or the radical of the formula defined --O--SO.sub.2 --R' and R' is an alkyl radical having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, phenyl or tolyl, with ammonia.

6-Substituted-9-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro carbazol-1-one

The present invention relates to new, pharmacologically-valuable antidepressants, which are 2,4,5,6-tetrahydro-1H-pyrazino-[3,2,1-jk]-carbazoles substituted in the 8-position and having the formula I ##STR1## wherein R stands for an alkyl or alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a fluorine, chlorine or bromine atom, and a method for making them by reacting with ammonia a 6,9-disubstituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarbazol-1-one of the formula II ##STR2## wherein X denotes a bromine, chlorine or iodine atom or a radical of the formula --O--SO.sub.2 --R', and R' is an alkyl radical having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, phenyl or tolyl.

Pyrazino-carbazoles, process for the production thereof and

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