Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Toshio Nakamura

Keiichi Ono

Michihiro Yamamoto

Yoshiya Yamahira

Masami Muraoka

Akihiko Sugie

Tadao Maeda

Hiroshi Takenaka

A compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 is a free or an esterified carboxyl group, or a group of the formula: ##STR2## (R.sup.a and R.sup.b are each independently a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.7 cycloalkyl group, a benzyl group, a phenyl group, a phenyl group substituted with a halogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, or, when taken together with the adjacent nitrogen atom to which they are attached, they represent a 5 to 7 membered saturated heterocyclic group, Y.sup.1 is a group of the formula: ##STR3## (R.sup.6 is a hydrogen atom or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group), ##STR4## (R.sup.6 is as defined above), ##STR5## R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or a protected hydroxyl group, R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, when taken together, mean a shingle linkage to from a double bond between the carbon atoms which they are linked, R.sup.3 is a hydroxyl group or a protected hydroxyl group, R.sup.4 is a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, R.sup.5 is a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl group, a C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 alkenyl group, a C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 alkynyl group, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 cycloalkyl group, a C.sub.4 -C.sub.10 cycloalkenyl group, a hydroxy C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl group, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 heterocyclic group, a phenyl group optionally substituted with a halogen atom; a hydroxyl group, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, a trifluoromethyl group, or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group or a formula: A-B (A is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkylene chain and B is a C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 cycloalkyl group, a C.sub.4 -C.sub.10 cycloalkenyl group, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkoxy group, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 cycloalkoxy group, a C.sub.4 -C.sub.10 cycloalkenyloxy group, a C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 heterocyclic group, or a phenyl or phenoxy group optionally substituted with a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, a trifluoromethyl group or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy group); or a non-toxic pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Said compound have strong anti-ulcerous action or antithrombotic action, and are useful in treatment of ulcer or thrombosis.

Carbacyclin analogs

Pharmaceutical compositions with controlled rates of gastro-intestinal absorption are prepared by dissolution or suspension of the therapeutically active agent in an absorption depressive agent selected from the group consisting of unsaturated aliphatic alcohols or their esters, unsaturated aliphatic ethers, unsaturated aliphatic acids or their salts, their esters or their amides and natural occurring oils containing more than 35% by weight of any of the above-mentioned substances, said absorption depressive materials having 12 - 22 carbon atoms in their unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon chains and being liquid at the normal temperature.

Pharmaceutical compositions having controlled rate of gastro-intestinal

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