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Lisa A Hughes

Rudolf Kubela

Philip D Edwards

A 4-phenyl piperidine having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a straight chain lower alkyl group; R.sub.2 is --COCH.sub.3, --COC.sub.2 H.sub.5 or ##STR2## R.sub.3 is --OCOCH.sub.3, --OCOC.sub.2 H.sub.5, --OCO -cycloalkyl, or --OCOC.sub.6 H.sub.4 --Z; wherein Z is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy or chlorine, and X is oxygen: or an addition salt thereof with a pharmaceutically acceptable organic acid or inorganic acid. The compounds have have found to have, inter alia, stimulatory effects on the central nervous system which is indicative of their use as antidepressants in humans.

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Lisa A Hughes