This invention provides novel 3-quinuclidinyl benzamides and benzoates which have utility as therapeutical agents which exhibit anxiolytic, antipsychotic, cognition improvement, antiemetic and gastric prokinetic effects in warm blooded animals. The compounds useful in the methods and composition of this invention are represented by the formula: ##STR1## where X is oxygen or sulfur; Y is --NH or --O--; when Y is --O--, R.sup.1 is ##STR2## and when Y is --NH, R.sup.1 is ##STR3## and R.sup.2 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkenyl; the geometrical and optical isomers, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
                            本发明提供了新型的3-喹诺
啡啶基苯甲酰胺和
苯甲酸酯,其具有作为治疗剂的实用性,可在温血动物中表现出抗焦虑、抗精神病、改善认知、抗恶心和胃动力作用。本发明方法和组合物中有用的化合物由以下式子表示:##STR1##其中 X 为氧或
硫;Y 为--NH或--O--;当 Y 为--O--时,R1 为##STR2##当 Y 为--NH时,R1 为##STR3##且 R2 为氢、C1-C4烷基或C1-C4烯基;其几何和光学异构体,或其药学上可接受的盐。