Aminopolycarboxylic acids and derivatives thereof for magnetic resonance imaging

US5419893A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• NYCOMED IMAGING AS · NO

Inventors

• Arne Berg · Sandvika, NO
• Torsten Almen · Malmö, SE
• Jo Klaveness · Oslo, NO
• Pal Rongved · Oslo, NO
• Terje Thomassen · Oslo, NO

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 19, 1993
• Grant date: May 30, 1995
• Expiry date: Jan 19, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T436/24
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

There are provided chelating agents particularly useful for the preparation of diagnostic and therapeutic agents for magnetic resonance imaging, scintigraphy, ultrasound imaging, radiotherapy and heavy metal detoxification, said agents being compounds of formula I EQU X--CHR.sub.1 NZ--(CHR.sub.1).sub.n --A--(CHR.sub.1).sub.m --NZ--CHR.sub.1 --X (I) (wherein each of the groups Z is a group --CHR.sub.1 X or the groups Z together are a group --(CHR.sub.1).sub.q --A'--(CHR.sub.1).sub.r --, where A' is an oxygen or sulphur atom or a group --N--Y; A is a group --N--Y or A--(CHR.sub.1).sub.m -- represents a carbon-nitrogen bond or, when the groups Z together are a group --(CHR.sub.1).sub.q --A'--(CHR.sub.1).sub.r --, A may also represent an oxygen or sulphur atom; each Y, which may be the same or different, is a group --(CHR.sub.1).sub.p --N(CHR.sub.1 X).sub.2 or a group --CHR.sub.1 X; each X, which may be the same or different, is a carboxyl group or a derivative thereof or a group R.sub.1 ; each R.sub.1, which may be the same or different, is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyalkyl group or an optionally hydroxylated alkoxy or alkoxyalkyl group; n,m,p,q and r are each 2,3 or 4; with the proviso…