Patent · US Expired

2-Hydroxymethyl indole compounds and blood sugar lowering compositions

US3996241A · kind A · utility

1Cited by

1References

16Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Boehringer Mannheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

Ruth Heerdt · Mannheim, DE
Manfred Hubner · Ludwigshafen am Rhein, DE
Felix Helmut Schmidt
Kurt Stach

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 22, 1974
Grant date	Dec 7, 1976
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 22, 1994

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC07D209/60
WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

New indole derivatives of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, are hydrogen or halogen or lower alkyl or, taken together, represent a --CH=CH-CH=CH- bridge, with the proviso that R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are not both hydrogen, and wherein, when R.sub.2 is halogen or alkyl, R.sub.1 can also be alkoxy; Are outstandingly effective in blood sugar lowering action in mammals.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.