Sharps Associates

Abbott Laboratories Corporation

Virginia Commonwealth University

Louis Selig Harris

Raj Kumar Razdan

John C Sheehan

Harry George Pars

Donald J Abraham

Cheuk M Lee

Raymond John Michaels

B J Meade

Graham A Patrick

Barbara Zitko Terris

Paul S Swerdlow

Albert E Munson

Various hydroxy benzaldehyde derivatives including Vanillin, a natural product derived from the vanilla bean that is commonly used as a flavoring agent, is administered by injection (i.v., i.m., s.c., and the like) or intravenous infusion in an effective dose amount to a patient in need of calming or sedation.

Method of calming or sedating an animal with a hydroxy benzaldehyde

Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is methyl or R.sub.1 R.sub.1 is oxygen; R.sub.2 is alkyl or halogen substituted phenyl alkyl; and R.sub.3 is hydrogen, loweralkyl, loweralkenyl or loweralkynyl. The compounds of this invention are useful as analgesics and tranquilizers.

9-Hydroxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydro-6H, dibenzo[b][d] pyrans and pyranones

Novel heterocyclic esters of benzopyranopyridines represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkanoyl, cycloalkyl-lower alkyl, cycloalkyl-lower alkanoyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl, halo-loweralkenyl, phenyl-lower alkyl, phenyl-lower alkenyl or phenyl-lower alkynyl; R.sub.2 is lower alkyl; R.sub.3 is an alkyl having one to twenty carbon atoms or a cycloalkyl-lower alkyl, Y is a straight or branched chain alkylene having one to eight carbon atoms, and R.sub.4 is a group of the formula ##STR2## a is an integer from 1 to 4, b is an integer from 1 to 4 and X is CH.sub.2, O, S or N--R.sub.5 with R.sub.5 being hydrogen or lower alkyl, with the limitation that when X is O, S or N--R.sub.5, a and b each must be 2 and R.sub.6 is hydrogen or a lower alkyl group bonded to a carbon in the ring; and the acid addition salts thereof.

Novel heterocyclic esters of benzopyranopyridines

Heterocyclic esters of 1,4-ethano-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-5H-[1]benzopyrano[3,4-b]pyridines and 1,4-ethano-1,2,3,4,13,14-hexahydro-5H-[1]benzopyrano[3,4-b]pyridines. The esters have the formulas ##STR1## wherein R.sub.2 is lower alkyl, R.sub.3 is an alkyl having one to twenty carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl-lower alkyl or a phenyl-lower alkyl, Y is a straight or branched chain alkylene having one to eight carbon atoms, and R.sub.4 is a group of the formula ##STR2## wherein a is an integer from 1 to 4, b is an integer from 1 to 4 and X is CH.sub.2, O, S or N--R.sub.5 with R.sub.5 being hydrogen or lower alkyl, and R.sub.6 is hydrogen or a lower alkyl group bonded to a carbon in the ring. The compounds have pharmacological activity, including analgesic, anti-convulsive and tranquilizing activity in animals. The compounds can be administered in pharmaceutical composition form.

Use of heterocyclic esters of 5H-[1]benzopyrano [3,4-b]pyridines as

Novel heterocyclic esters of benzopyranopyridines represented by the formula ##SPC1## Wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkanoyl, cycloalkyl-lower alkyl, cycloalkyl-lower alkanoyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl, halo-loweralkenyl, phenyl-lower alkyl, phenyl-lower alkenyl or phenyl-lower alkynyl; R.sub.2 is lower alkyl; R.sub.3 is an alkyl having one to twenty carbon atoms or a cycloalkyl-lower alkyl, Y is a straight or branched chain alkylene having one to eight carbon atoms, and R.sub.4 is a group of the formula ##EQU1## a is an integer from 1 to 4, b is an integer from 1 to 4 and X is CH.sub.2, O, S or N--R.sub.5 with R.sub.5 being hydrogen or lower alkyl, with the limitation that when X is O, S or N--R.sub.5, a and b each must be 2 and R.sub.6 is hydrogen or a lower alkyl group bonded to a carbon in the ring; and the acid addition salts thereof.

Heterocyclic esters of benzopyranopyridines

Novel thienobenzopyran and thiopyranobenzopyran esters represented by the formula ##SPC1## Wherein n is 0 to 3 and m is 0 to 3 and m + n = 2 or 3, R.sub.1 is lower alkyl, R.sub.2 is alkyl or cycloalkyl-lower alkyl, R.sub.4 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, R.sub.5 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, and R.sub.3 is ##EQU1## wherein Y is a straight or branched chain C.sub.1 to C.sub.8 alkylene, R.sub.6 is hydrogen or a lower alkyl, a is an integer from 1 to 4, b is an integer from 1 to 4, X is CH.sub.2, O, S or NR.sub.7 wherein R.sub.7 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, with the limitation that when X is O, S or NR.sub.7, a and b each must be 2; and the acid addition salts thereof.

Morpholine containing esters of thienobenzopyrans and

Esters of thienobenzopyrans and thiopyranobenzopyrans

This invention relates to novel esters of benzopyrans represented by the formulae ##SPC1## Wherein R and R' are hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl and when alkyl are on the same or different carbons; R.sub.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl; R.sub.2 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkyl, lowercycloalkyloweralkyl or lowercycloalkyl; n is an integer from 3 to 7, and particularly 3 to 5; Y is a straight or branched chain C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkylene; and R.sub.3 is ##EQU1## WHEREIN A IS AN INTEGER FROM 1 TO 4, B IS AN INTEGER FROM 1 TO 4, X is O,S, CH.sub.2 or NR.sub.4 and R.sub.4 is hydrogen C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, and R.sub.5 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl; and the acid addition salts thereof. The compounds exhibit analgesic and central nervous system activity.

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