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Anticonvulsant and anxiolytic lactam and thiolactam derivatives

Patent 6066666 Issued on May 23, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject March 20, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 045211 filed on 03/20/1998

US Classes:

514/424, Chalcogen bonded directly to the five-membered hetero ring by nonionic bonding548/543Chalcogen bonded directly to a ring carbon of the five-membered hetero ring which is adjacent to the ring nitrogen (e.g., 2-pyrrolidones, etc.)

Examiners

Primary: Richter, Johann
Assistant: Keating, Dominic

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 0151964 A2 EP. 08/13/1985
  • 0435387 A1 EP. 07/13/1991
  • 1527755 FR. 07/13/1968
  • 1527707 FR. 07/13/1968
  • 1527736 FR. 07/13/1968

International Classes

A01N 043/36
C07D 207/12

Abstract

This invention relates to lactam and thiolactam derivatives having useful anticonvulsant and anxiolytic activity, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and therapeutic applications using such compositions.

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