Compounds useful as anti-inflammatory agents

US6358945B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Steffen Breitfelder · Aßmannshardt, DE
• Pier Francesco Cirillo · Woodbury, US
• Thomas A. Gilmore · Cambridge, US
• Eugene Richard Hickey · Danbury, US
• John Proudfoot · Newtown, US
• John R. Regan · Princeton, US
• Alan David Swinamer · Bethel, US
• Hidenori Takahashi · Lagrangeville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 16, 2000
• Grant date: Mar 19, 2002
• Expiry date: Feb 16, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D495/08
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Disclosed are novel aromatic compounds which are useful for treating diseases or pathological conditions involving inflammation such as chronic inflammatory diseases. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing and processes of making such compounds.