US 7,528,127 B2
Short-acting benzodiazepines
Paul L. Feldman, Research Triangle Park, N.C. (US); David Kendall Jung, Research Triangle Park, N.C. (US); Istvan Kaldor, Research Triangle Park, N.C. (US); Gregory J. Pacofsky, Research Triangle Park, N.C. (US); Jeffrey A. Stafford, Research Triangle Park, N.C. (US); and Jeffrey H. Tidwell, Research Triangle Park, N.C. (US)
Assigned to CeNes Limited, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Filed on Jan. 05, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/650,636.
Application 11/650636 is a division of application No. 09/980680, granted, now 7,160,880, previously published as PCT/US00/13134, filed on May 12, 2000.
Claims priority of application No. 9911152.8 (GB), filed on May 14, 1999.
Prior Publication US 2007/0135420 A1, Jun. 14, 2007
Int. Cl. A61P 25/20 (2006.01); A61K 31/5517 (2006.01); C07D 487/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 514—220  [540/561] 10 Claims
 
1. A compound of formula (I):

OG Complex Work Unit Drawing
wherein
W is H, a C1-C4 branched alkyl, or straight chained alkyl;
X is CH2, NH or NCH3; n is 1 or 2;
Y is O or CH2; m is 0 or 1, provided that if X is CH2, n is 1 and m is 0, then R1 is not CH2CH3;
R1 is H, a C1-C7 straight chain alkyl, a C3-C7 branched chain alkyl, a C1-4haloalkyl, a C3-C7 cycloalkyl, an aryl, a heteroaryl, an aralkyl, or a heteroaralkyl;
R2 is phenyl, 2-halophenyl or 2-pyridyl,
R3 is H, Cl, Br, F, I, CF3 or NO2;
R8 is hydrogen, C1-4alkyl or C1-3hydroxyalkyl;
U is CR9 where R9 is H, C1-3hydroxyalkyl, C1-4alkoxy, or C1-4alkyl;
and V is CH;
or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof.