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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2015
Iomet Pharma Ltd., Edinburgh, Midlothian, GB;
Phillip M. Cowley, Edinburgh, GB;
Alan Wise, Edinburgh, GB;
Susan Davis, Dundee, GB;
Margaret Huggett, Dundee, GB;
Michael Kiczun, Dundee, GB;
IOmet Pharma Ltd., , GB;
Abstract
Provided is a compound for use in medicine for inhibiting tryptophan-2,3-dioxygenase (TDO) and/or indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), which compound comprises formula (I) wherein X, X, and X, may be the same or different and each is independently selected from C and N; X, X, X, and Xmay be the same or different and each is independently selected from C, N, O and S wherein when Xis N it has a double bond and wherein when Xis N it has a double bond; the dotted line is a bond which may be present or absent; R, R, R, R, R, R, and Rmay be present or absent and may be the same or different and each is independently selected from H and a substituted or unsubstituted organic group, provided that at least one of R, R, Rand Rcomprises a group Y; and provided that the number of R, R, R, R, R, R, and Rgroups present is such that the respective valencies of X, X, X, X, X, X, and Xare maintained; and wherein Y is a group having a formula selected from (II), (III), (IV), (V) wherein L may be present or absent, and may be a substituted or unsubstituted organic linking group, and Rand Rmay be the same or different and are selected from H and a substituted or unsubstituted organic group, Xis selected from C and N, and each Rmay be the same or different and is selected from H and a substituted or unsubstituted organic group.