The invention provides a compound having a 12-lipoxygenase inhibitory effect and a drug selectively inhibiting 12-lipoxygenase and relates to a novel coumarin derivative represented by general formula (1) and a drug comprising said compound as the active ingredient. In formula (1) R¹ represents hydrogen or lower alkyl; R² and R³ represent each hydrogen or hydroxyl provided that R² and R³ do not represent hydrogen atoms at the same time; and Ar represents (a) (b), (c) etc.; and R⁴ represents lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halogen, trifluoromethyl or cyano. It further provides a compound which can be converted into another compound capable of selectively inhibiting 12-lipoxygenase activity through cleavage and breakage of its modifying moiety in vivo and a drug which selectively inhibits 12-lipoxygenase and relates to a novel coumarin derivative having an acyl group as the modifying moiety and a drug containing said compound as the active ingredient. The invention compound, which can potently inhibit 12-lipoxygenase at a high selectivity, is useful as a drug for preventing and treating circulatory diseases such as arteriosclerosis and vasoconstriction and preventing the metastasis of certain cancers. It has a low toxicity and little exhibits side effects.
The present invention provides compounds having 12-lipoxygenase inhibitory effect and medicines inhibiting 12-lipoxygenase selectively, and relates to novel coumarin derivatives and medicines containing the compounds as effective ingredients. Furthermore, this invention relates to compounds capable of converting to compounds inhibiting 12-lipoxygenase activities selectively according to the cleavage of modified moieties in vivo and medicines inhibiting 12-lipoxygenase selectively, and relates to novel coumarin derivatives having acyl groups as modified moieties and medicines containing the compounds as effective ingredients. The compounds of the present invention can inhibit 12-lipoxygenase strongly and selectively, and being useful as medicines for preventing and treating various circulatory diseases such as arteriosclerosis and vasospasm and for preventing of the metastasis of some kinds of cancers, and show low toxicity and few side effects.