Compounds useful as anti-inflammatory agents

US6492393B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Steffen Breitfelder · Aßmannshardt, DE
• Pier Francesco Cirillo · Woodbury, US
• Ming-Hong Hao · Chesterfield, US
• Eugene Richard Hickey · Danbury, US
• Rajiv Sharma · Mumbai, IN
• Sanxing Sun · Danbury, US
• Hidenori Takahashi · Lagrangeville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 16, 2000
• Grant date: Dec 10, 2002
• Expiry date: Nov 16, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C2601/02
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Disclosed are novel aromatic compounds of the formula (I) wherein G, X, Ar, L and Q are defined herein. The compounds are useful in pharmaceutic compositions for treating diseases or pathological conditions involving inflammation such as chronic inflammatory diseases. Also disclosed are processes of making such compounds.