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• the present invention is related to new compounds of the diarylalkylamine type having therapeutic activity, to methods for preparing such compounds, to pharmaceutical preparations comprising such compounds and to methods of treatment employing such compounds.
• the invention is also related to intermediates useful in preparation of such therapeutically active compounds.
• the object of the invention is to obtain compounds having a therapeutical activity in the central nervous system, especially an anti-depressive or a tranquilizing activity.
• British Patent 1 429 068 disel the general Formule : corresponding to having anti-depressive activity.
• Belgian Patent 835.802 discloses compounds of the general formula: - having anti-depressive activity.
• South African Patent 62/415 discloses i.a. a compound having the formula claimed to have a therapeutic utility especially as an anti- tussive.
• Ar represents the group wherein Y is bound in the 2-, 3-,or 4-position and represents a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a halogen, a trifluoromethyl group, or an amino or a mono- or di-lower alkyl amino group, or Ar represents a pyridyl group bound in the 2-, 3- or 4-position,
• X represents hydrogen, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a halogen, a trifluoromethyl group, an amino group or a mono- or di-lower alkyl amino group
• R is a lower alkyl group and R is hydrogen or a lower alkyl group.
• lower alkyl and alkoxy groups groups comprising up to 3 carbon atoms.
• Halogen may be any of the elements F, Cl, Br or I.
• Therapautically acceptable salts and biopre- cursors of the compounds of the invention as well as differently hydrated or anhydrous forms of such compounds or salts are within the scope of the invention.
• a bioprecursor of a therapeutically active compound is meant a compound which is structurally different from the therapeutically active compound but which on administration to an animal or human is converted in the body to the therapeutically active compound.
• the compounds of formula Ia above wherein Ar is identical to the group contain one asymmetric carbon atom.
• the remaining compounds of formula Ia contain two asymmetric carbon atoms and can therefore exist in two diastereomeric forms which can be separated by methods known in the art.
• the compounds of formula Ia above may be resolved into their optical enantiomers by using optically active acids such as i.a. tartaric acid, mandelic acid, dibenzoyl tartaric acid as known in the art.
• the compounds of the invention may be used as mixtures of diastereomeric forms or as racemic mixtures of the pure diastereomers or as the pure enantiomers mentioned above.
• the therapeutic properties may residue to a greater or lesser extent in one of the enantiomers or mixtures mentioned above.
• the compound of formula I5 in which the group Ar is not identical with the group may exist in different stereoisomeric forms, that is in cis- trans isomers or, according to the IUPAC nomencleture (J. Org. Chem. 35, 2849-2867, September 1970), in an E-form and a Z-form.
• the compound may be used therapeutically as a mixture of geometrical isomers or in pure E or Z form.
• the pure geometrical isomers may be prepared from an isomer mixture, from an isomer-pure starting material or directly by a stereoselective synthesis.
• the compounds of the invention show an activity in the central nerwous system which makes them useful as neuropharmacological agents for treatment of various diseases in animals including man.
• the compounds are expected to be especially useful as anti-depressive, anxiolytic or tranquilizing agents in man.
• R 1 represents hydrogen and R represents a methyl group.
• the compounds of the invention may be prepared by
• the intermediates of formula II may be prepared by reacting the ketone of the formula IV above with a hydroxylamine de- rivative of formula NH 2 OR 1 , wherein R 1 has the meaning defined above.
• the intermediate of formula III may be prepared by hydride reduction of the compound of fcrmula IV which, in burn, may be obtained by
• the compounds of formula Ia are preferably prepared by method a).
• the reaction according to method a) is preferably performed in diethyl ether with a slight excess of lithium aluminium hydride under inert atmosphere.
• the new compounds of formual Ia may be used therepeutically as the racemic mixtures of (+)- and (-)-forms, which in the usual case are obtained at the synthesis. Isomer mixtures obtained may be resolved by methods known per se into corresponding optically active modifications. If desired, the optically active modification may be prepared by way of direct "synthesis, e.g. via an optically active compound as described above.
• the compounds of the formula I in the invention may be prepared by:
• the dehydration of the starting material may be done by means of treatment with hydrochloric acid HC1 and heating of the reacting mixture.
• the dehydration of the starting material may also be done by means of other types of acid-catalysis, such as by means of sulfuric acid H 2 SO 4 , phosphoric acid H 3 PO 4 . potassium hydrogen sulphate KHSO 4 , or oxalic acid (COOH) 2 .
• Other methods for the dehydration of the starting material to the formation of a compound of the formula I are dehydration using phosphoroxichloride POCI 3 in pyridine,'and dehydration with thionylchloride, SOCI 2 , in pyridine.
• a catalytic dehydration of the starting material may be used. The dehydration is in this case carried out at a temperature of about 300 to 500°C using a catalyst such as kaolin, alumina or aluminium oxide.
• This reaction is also useful for preparation of the compounds of formula Ia by employing as a starting material a saturated compound corresponding to the compound of formula VIII.
• the intermediate of formula VII may be obtained by preparing a Grignard or lithium compound from a halobenzene of the formula and reacting it with an ester of the formula wherein R" is an alkyl, aralkyl or aryl group.
• the intermediate of formula VIII may be isolated (of. Example 15) and subsequently dehydrated or alternatively the crude product in the preparation of formula VII may be dahydrated directly (of. Example 17).
• Z 1 Br
• Z 1 OH
• the latter compound may be transformed to a reactive derivative III by treatment with an agent such as SOCl 2 , SOBr 2 or PBr 3 or with ClSO 2 R 1 .
• the compounds of the present invention will normally be administered orally, rectally or by injection, in the form of pharmaceutical preparations comprising the active ingredient either as a free base or as a pharmaceutically acceptable non-toxic, acid addition salt, e.g. the hydrochloride; hydrobromide, lactate, acetate, phosphate, sulphate, sulphamate, citrate, tartrate, oxalate and the like in association with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
• a pharmaceutically acceptable non-toxic, acid addition salt e.g. the hydrochloride; hydrobromide, lactate, acetate, phosphate, sulphate, sulphamate, citrate, tartrate, oxalate and the like in association with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
• the carrier may be a solid, semisolid or liquid diluant or capsule.
• These pharmaceutical preparations constitute a further aspect of this invention.
• the active substance will constitute from 0.1 to 99 % by weight of the preparation, more specifically between 0.5 and 20 % by weight for preparations intended for injection and between 2 and 50 % by weight for preparations suitable for oral administration.
• the selected compound may be mixed with a solid pulverulent carrier, e.g. lactose, saccharose, sorbitol, mannitol, starches such as potato starch, corn starch or amylopectin, cellulose derivatives, a binder such as gelatine or polyvinylpyrrolidone, and a lubricant such as magnesium stearate, calcium stearate, polyethylene glycol waxes, and the like, and then compressed to form tablets.
• a solid pulverulent carrier e.g. lactose, saccharose, sorbitol, mannitol, starches such as potato starch, corn starch or amylopectin, cellulose derivatives, a binder such as gelatine or polyvinylpyrrolidone, and a lubricant such as magnesium stearate, calcium stearate, polyethylene glycol waxes, and the like, and then compressed to form tablets.
• the tablet can be coated with a lacquer in a readily volatile organic solvent or mixture of organic solvents.
• Dyestuff may be added to these coatings in order to readily distinguish between tablets containing different active substances or different amounts of the active compounds.
• soft gelatine capsules pearlshaped closed capsules consisting of gelatine and for example, glycerol or similar closed capsules
• the active substance may be admixed with a vegetable oil.
• Hard gelatine capsules may contain granulates of the active substance in combination with solid, pulverulent carriers such as lactose, saccharose, sorbitol, mannitol, starches (e.g. potato starch, corn starch or amylopectin), cellulose derivatives or gelatine.
• Dosage units for rectal application can be prepared in the form of suppositories comprising the active substance in ed- mixture witha neutral fatty base, or gelatine rectal capsules comprising the active substance in admixture with vegetable oil or paraffin oil.
• Liquid preparations for oral application may be in the form of syrups or suspensions, for example, solutions containing from about 0.2 % to about 20 % by weight of the active substance herein described the balance ceing sugar and a mixture of ethanol, water, glycerol, and propyleneglycol.
• Such liquid preparations may contain colouring agents, flavouring agents, saccarine and carboxymethylcellulose as a thickening agent.
• Solutions for parenteral applications by injection can be prepared in an aqueous solution of a water-soluble pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the active substance preferably in a concentration of from about 0.5 % to about 10 % by weight. These solutions may also contain stabilizing agents and/or buffering agents and may conveniently be provided in various dosage unit ampoules.
• Suitable daily doses of the compounds of the invention in therapeutic treatment is 25 to 250 mg for peroral administration, preferably 50 to 150 mg, and 5 to 50 mg for parenteral administration preferably 1 0 to 30 mg.
• a preparation in dosage unit form for oral administration may contain 10 to 50 mg, preferably 10 to 25 mg of active substance per dosage unit.
• the solvents of the first mother liquors pf the diamine oxalate prepared according to example 2 were evaporated and the residue was extracted with ether from an alkaline solution. There was obtained 1.2 g of free amine.
• the fumarate was prepared in ethyl acetate from half an equivalent of fumaric acid and recrystallized twice from acetonitrile-isopropylalcohol affording 0.28 g of the pure beta isomer as the diamine fumarate, mp 184-186°C.
• the oxalate had mp 106-111°C from acetone.
• the maleate was prepared by addition of a hot ethanolic solution of 4.9 g of maleic acid intc a warm solution of the amine in 100 ml of ethyl acetate. Recrystallization from EtOH-EtOAc gave 8.4 g of the maleate, mp 158-181°C.
• the mixture was stirred and then made alkaline and filtered. After separation of the ether phase the aqueous phase was extracted with ether. The combined ethereal layers were extracted twice with 2 M hydrogen chloride. The aqueous phase was made alkaline and extracted with ether and dried over sodium sulphate. After evaporation of the solvent 10.1 g of yellow oil was obtained, which was dissolved in 75 ml of acetic acid and 15 ml of conc. aqueous hydrogen chloride.
• the amine was converted to the fumarate, which was recrystallized twice from ethanol/ethyl acetate/hexane to give 6.2 g (17 % yield) of the fumaric acid salt in the form C 18 H 21 NO 2 . 3/4C 4 H 4 O 4 . M.p. 167-167.5°C.
• Sodium dimethylsulfoxide in DMSO prepared by heating 3.8 g 0.08 mol) sodium hydride (50 % in oil) in 100 ml dimethylsulfoxide at 80°C for 40 min, was mixed with 27.0 g (0.07 mol) propyltriphenylphosphonium bromide, prepared by heating propyl- bromide and triphenylphosphine in toluene at reflux temperature for 14 hours. The mixture was stirred under nitrogen atomos- phere at room temperature for 1.5 hours.
• the product was extracted with 3 x 50 ml of 0.5 M HCL, the combined aqueous layer was made alkaline with 10 M NaOH and extracted with 2 x 50 ml of ether. Drying and evaporation . of the solvent gave 0.23 g of the title compound as an oil .
• the maleate had m.p. 174-175°C from ethanol.
• the UV spectrum in ethanol had ⁇ max 237 nm.
• Example 38 Preparation of a sustained release tablet
• depressions are considered to be connected with changes in the biochemical processes of the brain which processes control the mood.
• the nature of these biochemical processes are largely unknown but in depressive states there is evidence for a decreased activity of monoaminergic brain neurons.
• the monoamines, noradrenaline (NA), dopamine (DA) and 6-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), are of great interest in this respect.
• NA, DA and 5-HT is localised in three different type son neurons and may function as trans- mittors in the central nervous system.
• the monoamines are stored in special structures, granules, situated in enlargements of the nerve endings, varicosities.
• the varicosity is separated from the effector neuron by space, the synantic cleft or Simonm.
• the transmittor is released from the granule into the synantic cleft and reaches the receptor of the effector neuron and generates a nerve imoulse.
• the amines After impulse generation the amines are inactivated by mainly two mechanisme: a re-uptaka mechanism at the cell membrane and enzymatic conversion by catechol-8-methyltransferas to form methylated metabolites.
• a re-uptaka mechanism at the cell membrane There is also an inactivating enzyme within the vericosties, monoamine oxidase (MAD), that is stored in the mitochondrie and inactivates the amines intracellularly,
• MAD monoamine oxidase
• An antidepressant effect should thus be obtained with compounds which are able to inhibit the re-uptake of one or both NA and 5-HT.
• test method described in Europ. J. Pharmacol. 17, 107, 1972. This method involves the measurement of the decrease in the uptake of 14 C-5-hydroxytryptamine ( 14 C-5-HT) and 3 H- -noradrenaline ( 3 H-NA) in brain slices from mice after in vivo and in vitro administration of the test substance.
• 14 C-5-HT 14 C-5-hydroxytryptamine
• 3 H-NA 3 H- -noradrenaline
• test substances were administered intraperitoneally half an hour before the animals were killed.
• the midbrain was taken out, sliced and incubated in a mixture consisting of 0.2 nmole of 14 C-5-HT, 0.2 nmole of 3 H-NA and 11 ⁇ mole of glucose in 2 ml of Krebs Henseleit-buffer, pH 7.4 per 100 mg of brain slices.
• the incubation time was 5 minutes with 5 minutes of preincubation before the labelled amines were added.
• the slices were dissolved in Soluene and the amounts of radioactive amines taken u p were determined by liquid scintillation.
• the doses producing 50 per cent decrease of the active uptake (ED 50 ) of 14 C-5-HT and 3 H-NA were determined graphically from dose response curves.
• Active uptake is defined as that part of the radioactive uptake which is inhibited by a high concentration of cocaine.
• the pharmacological tests show that the compounds are able to inhibit the uptake of noradrenaline and 5-hydroxytryptamine.
• a pronounced non-selective activity is shown for the compounds having codes CPK 170, CPK 171, CPK 160 and CPK 184.
• a pronounced selective activity on uptake of noradrenaline is seen in compounds CPK 185, CPK 215 and CPK 217 while a pronounced selective activity on uptake of 5-hydroxytryptamine is seen in compounds FLA 611, FLA 615.
• CPK 198 and CPK 204 are able to inhibit the uptake of noradrenaline and 5-hydroxytryptamine.
• a strong non-selective activity is considered to be especially advantageous, as compounds having such activity may be employed in the treatment of depressions in which the neurotransmit- tor deficiency is unknown as well as in those cases wherein it is established that the deficiency pertains to both noradrenaline and 5-hydroxytryptamine.

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