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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 1996
Filed:
May. 31, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dongwei Cai, Edison, NJ (US);
Richard Desmond, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Yao-Jun Shi, Edison, NJ (US);
David M Tschaen, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Thomas R Verhoeven, Cranford, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07D / ; C07D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
546 17 ; 546 15 ; 546 16 ; 546 18 ;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a process of making spirocycles of general structural formula: ##STR1## where R.sub.1 is selected from the group consisting of CO--C.sub.1-3 alkyl, cyano, carboxy, carboxy C.sub.1-6 alkyl ester, carboxamide, C.sub.1-6 alkyl sulfinyl, C.sub.1-6 alkyl sulfonyl, C.sub.1-6 methanesulfonamide and halogen; R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of keto or alcohol, R.sub.3 is cyano, resulting in compounds which are Class III antiarrhythmic.