Substituted imidazole derivatives and their use as histamine H3 receptor ligands
申请人:James Black Foundation Limited
公开号:US06407132B1
公开(公告)日:2002-06-18
Compounds of formula (I) and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts are useful as histamine H3 receptor ligands. R1 and R3 are optional substituents such as C1 to C6 alkyl. R2 represents a bond or C1 to C5 (preferably C1 to C3) hydrocarbylene; R4 represents a bond or C1 to C5 (preferably C1 to C3) hydrocarbylene; R5 is hydrogen, C1 to C3 alkyl, R8—O—(C1 to C3)alkyl (wherein R8 is hydrogen or C1 to C3 alkyl), aryl, aryl(C1 to C3)alkyl; R6 represents a bond or —NR9—, wherein R9 is any of the groups mentioned above for R5; R7 is H or C1 to C15 hydrocarbyl (in which one or more hydrogen atoms may be replaced by halogen, and up to three carbon atoms may be replaced by oxygen, nitrogen or sulfur atoms); a is from 0 to 2; and b is from 0 to 3.
The present invention relates to indolinones of general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 to R.sub.3 are defined in claim 1, the isomers and the salts thereof, particularly the physiologically acceptable salts thereof which have valuable pharmacological properties, particularly an inhibiting effect on various kinases and cycline/CDK complexes and on the proliferation of various tumour cells, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, their use and processes for preparing them.