Abstract:
Provided is a substituted piperidine compound having an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity. A compound represented by the formula (I):
wherein each symbol is as described in the DESCRIPTION, or a salt thereof has an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity, and is useful as a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for narcolepsy.
Abstract:
2-Pyrrolidine phenylhydrazides antibacterial agents The present invention relates to 2-pyrrolidine phenylhydrazide compounds of formula (I), which are selective antibacterials specifically against Acinetobacter baumannii. The invention also relates to their therapeutic use as antibacterials, to a process for their preparation and to pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
Abstract:
Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein R1, R4, R5, R6, Q1, Q2, Y1, and Y2 are as defined in the disclosure; and T is J1-A- and also as defined in the disclosure.Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.
Abstract:
The present invention provides methods for preventing and/or treating lysosomal storage disorders using 5-(fluoromethyl)piperidine-3,4-diol, 5-(chloromethyl)piperidine-3,4-diol, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, or prodrug thereof, or any combination of two or more thereof. In particular, the present invention provides methods for preventing and/or treating Gaucher's disease.
Abstract:
Compounds are provided that are modulators of the C5a receptor. The compounds are substituted piperidines and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of diseases and disorders involving the pathologic activation of C5a receptors.
Abstract:
Compounds are provided that are modulators of the C5a receptor. The compounds are substituted piperidines and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of diseases and disorders involving the pathologic activation of C5a receptors.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to compounds capable of inhibiting binding of the Smac protein to Inhibitors of apoptosis (IAPs). Such compounds are preferably capable of inhibiting IAP and thus may promote apoptosis or sensitize cells for apoptosis. The compounds may be used in the treatment of proliferative diseases, such as cancer.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (AA) (I) and (X): useful in treating Alzheimer's disease and other similar diseases. These compounds include inhibitors of the beta-secretase enzyme that are useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other diseases characterized by deposition of A beta peptide in a mammal. The compounds of the invention are useful in pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment to reduce A beta peptide formation.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to cyclic amino benzoic acid derivatives which are effective in therapy of lipid metabolism abnormality, diabetes and the like as a human peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor (PPAR) agonist, in particular, as an agonist against human PPARα isoform, and addition salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds. A cyclic amino benzoic acid derivative represented by the general formula (1) [wherein a ring Ar represents an aryl group which may have substituent, or the like; Y represents a C1-C4 alkylene, C2-C4 alkenylene, C2-C4 alkynylene, or the like; Z represents an oxygen atom, sulfur atom or —(CH2)n— (n represents 0, 1 or 2); X represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, lower alkyl group which may be substituted with a halogen atom, or the like; R represents a hydrogen atom or lower alkyl group, and —COOR substitutes for an ortho position or metha position of binding position of ring W] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
Abstract:
A process for preparing 4-substituted 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-N-oxy compounds (II) or mixtures of (II) and 4-substituted 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-N-hydroxy compounds (III) where X+Y can be O or can represent a cyclic ketal with the radicals or can represent an open-chain ketal in which X═O—R and Y═O—R′, where R and R′ can be identical or different and can each be CH3, CH2—CH3, CH2—CH2—CH3, CH(CH3)—CH3, CH2—CH2—CH2—CH3 and CH2—CH(CH3)—CH3, by oxidizing corresponding 4-substituted 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidines (I) with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of alkali metal hydrogencarbonate and/or ammonium hydrogencarbonate and in the presence or absence of a solvent, in which the reaction is carried out with the addition of Brönsted acids which have an acid strength greater than that of the hydrogencarbonate.