Fujirebio Inc.

Jun Kusunoki

Nobuo Kobayashi

Hiroshi Ikawa

Eiko Mori

Nobuko Watanabe

Hajime Matsumoto

Masakatsu Matumoto

4-hydroxytetrahydropyran-2-one derivatives with general formula (I) are useful as cholesterol reducing agents as well as lipid reducing agents, serving as inhibitors of HMG-CoA reductase, and capable of inhibiting the biosynthesis of peroxidized lipids, and therefore effective for curing arteriosclerosis: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represent hydrogen or a 2-tetrahydropyranyl group; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represent hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sub.4 represents hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, an acyl group, an aroyl group or a substituted sulfonyl group; A represents --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --, or --CH.dbd.CH--; and n is an integer of 1 or 2, and intermediates for synthesizing the 4-hydroxytetrahydropyran-2-one derivatives are disclosed.

4-Hydroxytetrahydropyran-2-one derivatives

Compounds represented by general formula (I) below ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which are the same or different, each represent a hydrogen atom or a protective group for a hydroxyl group;

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Jun Kusunoki