Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Tetsuhiro Kubota

Kinji Iizuka

Tetsuhide Kamijo

Kenji Akahane

Hideaki Umeyama

Yoshiaki Kiso

Novel amino acid derivatives useful as a therapeutic agent are disclosed. These amino acid derivatives and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof have a human renin inhibitory effect when administered orally and are useful for treatment of hypertension, especially renin-associated hypertension.

Novel amino acid derivatives

Dipeptides are described which are represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein the various substituents are defined hereinbelow. These compounds have a strong inhibitory efect on human renin, and are useful as a therapeutically active agent for the treatment of hypertension, especially renin-associated hypertension.

Dipeptides as renin inhibitors

New renin inhibitory amino acid derivatives represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents an alkoxycarbonyl group having 2 to 7 carbon atoms, ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are defined as in the specification below or ##STR3## wherein X and Y are defined as in the specification herein below, n represents zero or one, Z represents --O-- or --NH--, and R represents a straight- or branched chain alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, useful as a therapeutic agent are disclosed. The amino acid derivatives have a renin inhibitory effect when administered orally and are useful for treatment of hypertension, especially renin-associated hypertension.

Novel renin inhibitory amino acid derivatives

Amino acid derivatives

Amino acid derivatives represented by formula ##STR1## wherein His represents an L-histidyl group, X represents a straight or branched alkoxy group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms, a straight or branched alkylamino group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyloxy group having 3 to 7 carbon atoms, a morpholino group, said alkoxy group having one or more halogen atoms as substituents; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, are useful in the treatment of hypertension.

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Tetsuhiro Kubota