The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Boron Biologicals, Inc.

Duke University

Research, Incorporated

US Government as Represented by the Secretary of the Army

United States Borax Chemical Corporation

North Carolina Central University

Other

USA as Represented by Secretary of the Navy

Boron Bilogicals, Inc.

Iris H Hall

Bernard F Spielvogel

Anup Sood

Andrew T McPhail

Barbara Ramsay Shaw

Robert A Izydore

Steven D Wyrick

James M Chapman, Jr

Edward L Docks

Robert J Brotherton

Jeno Tomasz

George H Cocolas

Thomas S Griffin

Andrew T Mc Phail

Karl D Hargrave

Patty Wisian-Neilson

Agnes Dubey

A novel class of pharmaceutically active boronated compounds are provided. The boronated compounds include boronated purine and pyrimidine bases and boronated nucleosides, as well as phosphate esters and oligomers thereof. The compounds are boronated at the ring nitrogen of the purine or pyrimidine base, or at a 2', 3' or 5' amino substituent of the nucleoside sugar.

Boronated compounds

Disclosed are oligonucleoside boranophosphates, or salts thereof, comprising a chain of natural or modified ribonucleotides or deoxyribonucleotides, containing at least one boronated internucleotide phospodiester linkage of the formula: ##STR1## W is selected from the group consisting of .dbd.O, .dbd.S, --OPr, and --SPr where Pr is a base-labile protecting group. X is selected from the group consisting of --BH.sub.3, --BH.sub.2 R.sub.1, --BHR.sub.1 R.sub.2 and --BR.sub.1 R.sub.2 R.sub.3. R.sub.1 is selected from the group consisting of --R.sub.4, --COOH, --COOR.sub.4, --CONHR.sub.4, --CON(R.sub.4).sub.2, --CN.sup.+ R.sub.4 Z.sup.-, wherein Z.sup.- is an anion, --CN, carboxycholesteryl and carboxybenzyl, wherein R.sub.4 is C1 to C18 alkyl. R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of --R.sub.5, --COOH, --COOR.sub.5, --CONHR.sub.5, --CON(R.sub.5).sub.2, --CN.sup.+ R.sub.5 Z.sup.-, wherein Z.sup.- is an anion, --CN, carboxy- cholesteryl and carboxybenzyl, wherein R.sub.5 is C1 to C18 alkyl. R.sub.3 is selected from the group consisting of C1 to C3 alkyl. Most preferably, X is --BH.sub.3 and W is =0. Compounds of Formula (III) are useful as antisense agents and probes in molecular biology, and have pharmacological activities including anti-inflammatory, antihyperlipidemic, and antineoplastic activity.

Oligoribonucleoside and oligodeoxyribonucleoside boranophosphates

A method of combatting, e.g., preventing as well as treating, a disease state such as cystic fibrosis, neonatal hypoxemia, pulmonary hypertension, adult respiratory distress syndrome, psoriasis, spondyloarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, inflammatory bowel disease, myocardial infarctions, and/or osteoporosis in an animal subject, by administering to the animal subject an amount of an organic boron compound which is effective thereagainst. The organic boron compounds usefully employed in the method of the invention include any suitable organic boron-containing compounds, such as Lewis base-boron adducts; a preferred class of organic boron compounds useful in such method includes boron analogs of .alpha.-amino acids, and the corresponding amides and esters of such amino acids. A method is also disclosed of inhibiting enzyme activity in in vitro or in vivo systems comprising administering to such system an enzyme-inhibiting amount of an organic boron compound. Further disclosed is a method of reducing hydroxyproline, calcium, and/or inorganic phosphorous in serum and/or urine of an animal subject, by administering to the animal subject an effective amount of an organic boron compound.

Method of combatting osteoporosis in mammalian subjects, utilizing

Heterocyclic amine-borane compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein: A is a heterocyclic amine moiety selected from the group consisting of piperidine, substituted piperidine, piperazine, substituted piperazine, imidazole, substituted imidazole, pyrazole, substituted pyrazole, pyrazine, substituted pyrazine, pyrrole, substituted pyrrole, pyrrolidine, substituted pyrrolidine, indole, substituted indole, indoline, substituted indoline, quinoline, substituted quinoline, isoquinoline, substituted isoquinoline, thiazole, substituted thiazole, oxazole, substituted oxazole, thiazolidine, and substituted thiazolidine, wherein substitution is at any or all substituent positions, and comprises substituents selected from the group consisting of alkyl (preferably C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 linear or branched alkyl), alkylaryl, aryl, aralkyl, nitro, alkoxy, hydroxy, cyano, thiol, and halo;

Heterocyclic amine-boranes, and method of inhibiting DNA topoisomerase

The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising hypolipidemically active derivatives of 1,2,4-triazolidine-3,5-diones, 1,3,5-triazabicyclo[3.1.0]hexane-2,4-diones, and 1,3,5-triazine-2,4(1H,3H)-diones in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for treating hyperlipidemia in mammals, particularly humans.

1,2,4-triazolidine-3,5-diones and 1,3,5-triazine-2,4(1-H,3H)-diones,

A process of making oligoribonucleoside and deoxyribonucleoside boranophosphates and salts thereof is disclosed. The process comprises the steps of condensing a ribonucleotide or deoxyribonucleotide with a nucleoside phosphitylating agent, wherein the phosphitylating agent includes a 5' -OH group protected by an acid-labile protecting group and a moiety bonded to the phosphorus atom therein that is a stronger proton acceptor than the 5'-OH group of the ribonucleotide or deoxyribonucleotide to form a reaction intermediate, then oxidizing the reaction intermediate so formed with a compound comprising a Lewis base and a boron-containing substituent, wherein the Lewis base is a weaker electron donor than the phosphite phosphorus of the reaction intermediate, to form a ribonucleotide or deoxyribonucleotide boranophosphate. These steps are repeated on the nucleotide boranophosphate to form an oligonucleotide boranophosphate.

Process for preparing oligoribonucleoside and oligodeoxyribonucleoside

Phosphite-borane compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein: each R.sub.1 is independently selected from: H; C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl; alkylaryl; aralkyl; aryl; monovalent metal ions; nucleosides; and quaternary ammonium ions, (R.sub.4).sub.4 N.sup.+, in which the substituents R.sub.4 of the ammonium nitrogen atom are H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl;

Phosphite-borane compounds, and method of making and using the same

A novel class of pharmaceutically active boronated nucleosides are provided. The nucleosides are boronated at a ring nitrogen of the purine or pyrimidine or analogues thereof. Also provided are phosphate esters of these nucleosides and oligomers thereof. Methods of making and using the boronated nucleosides are also disclosed.

Boronated nucleoside, nucleotide and oligonucleotide compounds,

Compositions for the control of hyperlipidemia

A method of controlling hyperlipidemia in mammals which comprises adminstering to a mammal an amount effective to control hyperlipidemia of a compound having hypolipidemic activity and the structural formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different provided both are not hydrogen when R.sup.3 is an alkenyl or cycloalkenyl group, are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen; alkyl of 1 to 18 carbons; substituted alkyl of 1 to 18 carbons; cycloalkyl of 4 to 10 ring carbon atoms; substituted cycloalky of 4 to 10 ring carbon stoms; alkoxy of 1 to 8 carbon atoms; amido; carbamoyl; acyloxy; alkoxycarbonyl; halogen, aryl and substituted aryl, or together R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 from a C.sub.3 to C.sub.7 alkylene group; and

Isoxazolidine-3,5-diones, pharmaceutical compositions and method of

Novel boron dipeptide analogs and their corresponding amide derivatives which exhibit significant antihyperlipidemic and antineoplastic activities. Methods for preparing the boron containing compounds are disclosed as well as methods for utilizing the compounds to induce antihyperlipidemic and antineoplastic activity.

Boron dipeptide compounds

An isoxazolidin-3,5-dione for the control of hyperlipidemia in mammals having the following structural formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each an alkyl of 1 to 4 carbons; R.sup.3 is an alkoxybenzoyl group containing from 1 to 3 alkoxy groups wherein the alkoxy groups have from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxybenzoyl group wherein the alkyl group had from 1 to 4 carbons, a halobenzoyl group, or a group ##STR2## where together R.sup.10 and R.sup.11 form a C.sub.3 to C.sub.7 alkylene group, and R.sup.12 and R.sup.13 are each alkyl from 1 to 4 carbon atoms.

Compounds for the control of hyperlipidemia using N-substituted

The present invention is directed to a method of controlling hyperlipidemia in mammals which comprises administering to a mammal an amount effective to control hyperlipidemia of a compound having hypolipidemic activity and the structural formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, a C.sub.1 to C.sub.18 alkyl or substituted alkyl, a C.sub.2 to C.sub.18 alkenyl or substituted alkenyl, a C.sub.2 to C.sub.18 alkynyl or substituted alkynyl, a C.sub.4 to C.sub.10 cycloalkyl or substituted cycloalkyl, a C.sub.4 to C.sub.10 cycloalkenyl or substituted cycloalkenyl, phenyl, a substituted phenyl, cyano, phenalkyl, --CO--R.sup.9 or --Y--CO--R.sup.9 ;

Method for control of hyperlipidemia

A compound having the structural formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are the same or different and are hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, halogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy is disclosed. These compounds demonstrate utility as hypolipidemic agents. The present invention is also directed to a process for controlling lipidemia in mammals comprising treating mammals with a lipidemia controlling effective amount of the above-defined compound. Yet another aspect of the present invention is embodied in a pharmaceutical composition comprising the above compound and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier therefor.

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