Patent ReferencesMethod of stimulating steroidogenesis with alpidem Indole derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating neurological and psychiatric disorders Patent #: 5206382 InventorAssigneeApplicationNo. 930644 filed on 11/18/1997US Classes:514/300Plural hetero atoms in the bicyclo ring systemExaminersPrimary: Spivack, Phyllis G.Attorney, Agent or FirmForeign Patent References
International ClassesA61K 031/44A61K 031/415 Foreign Application Priority Data1996-04-07 ITAbstractTreatment of Parkinson's disease, parkinsonian syndromes, extrapyramidal syndromes, obsessive-compulsive disorder and syndromes, and frontal and subcortical dementias, with imidazo1,2-a!pyridine-3-acetamide derivatives of the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Y represents a hydrogen or halogen atom or a C1-4 alkyl group, A represents naphthyl or C6 H3 X1 X2, wherein each of X1 and X2 independently of one another is a hydrogen or halogen atom, a C1-4 alkoxy group, a C1-6 alkyl group or CF3, CH3 S-- , CH3 SO2 -- or --NO2, and each of R1 and R2 independently of one another represents either a hydrogen atom, or a straight or branched C1-5 alkyl group which is unsubstituted or substituted by one or more halogen atoms, hydroxyl, --N(C1-4 alkyl)2, carbamoyl or C1-4 alkoxy groups, or an allyl group, or a propargyl group, or a C3-6 cycloalkyl group, or a benzyl group, or a phenyl group, not both R1 and R2 being hydrogen, or --NR1 R2 represents a heterocyclic ring containing from 3 to 6 carbon atoms, or a heterocyclic ring of the formula ##STR2## wherein X is O, S, CHOR' or N--R, R' being hydrogen or benzyl and R being hydrogen, a C1-4 alkyl group, or phenyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by methoxy or a halogen atom, provided that if Y is 6-chloro, A is not 4-chlorophenyl.Other References
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