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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1992
Ramachandran S Ranganathan, Princeton, NJ (US);
Thangavel Arunchalam, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Edmund R Marinelli, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Radhakrishna K Pillai, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
Bracco International B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
New nonionic radiographic contrast agents having the formula ##STR1## wherein Y is a single bond, --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --, --CH.sub.2 O--, --OCH.sub.2 --, ##STR2## --CH.sub.2 --, --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, --O-- or ##STR3## R.sub.1, R.sub.1 ' and R.sub.2 are the same or different and are hydrogen, alkyl or hydroxyalkyl. Hydroxyalkyl refers to such alkyl groups having 1 or more hydroxy groups. Preferred hydroxyalkyl groups include: ##STR4## R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are the same or different and are hydrogen, methyl or --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH; R.sub.5 is hydrogen, alkyl, --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, CH.sub.2 OH or OH and R.sub.6 is alkyl, --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OH, CH.sub.2 OH, OH or hydrogen and may be the same or different than R.sub.5 and m is zero or one, with the proviso that no methylene or methine carbon atom of the heterocyclic ring is attached to both a nitrogen and an oxygen atom with the additional proviso that when Y is a single bond, m is not zero. These new contrast agents are water soluble and have desirable low osmolality and anticoagulant properties.