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Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006

Filed:

May. 28, 2002
Applicants:

Michael J. Kuhar, Baltimore, MD (US);

Frank Ivy Carroll, Durham, NC (US);

John W. Boja, Baltimore, MD (US);

Anita H. Lewin, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Philip Abraham, Cary, NC (US);

Inventors:

Michael J. Kuhar, Baltimore, MD (US);

Frank Ivy Carroll, Durham, NC (US);

John W. Boja, Baltimore, MD (US);

Anita H. Lewin, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Philip Abraham, Cary, NC (US);

Assignee:

Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 51/00 (2006.01); C07D 451/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Tropane derivatives having a high binding affinity and selectivity for dopamine transporters bear, on the tropane backbone either a carboxylic ester or isoxazole moiety, as well as a substituted phenyl moiety. The compounds have utility both as pharmaceutical and as imaging agents, when one or more atoms are radioactive.


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