Dihydropyridine compounds and their use in reducing blood sugar

Abstract

Blood-sugar-lowering dihydropyridines of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents phenyl, naphthyl, thienyl, pyridyl, chromenyl or thiochromenyl, it being possible for the radicals mentioned each to carry up to 2 identical or different substituents from the series comprising halogen, alkyl, alkoxy and alkylthio with in each case up to 6 carbon atoms, fluoroalkyl and fluoroalkoxy with in each case up to 3 carbon atoms and 3 fluorine atoms, nitro and cyano, R.sup.2 represents straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl which has up to 8 carbon atoms, can be interrupted in the alkyl chain by an oxygen or a sulphur atom and can be substituted by halogen, phenyl, cyano, hydroxyl, amino, alkylamino or dialkylamino with in each case up to 3 carbon atoms per alkyl group or by N-benzylmethylamino, R.sup.3 represents straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl which has up to 6 carbon atoms, can be interrupted in the alkyl chain by an oxygen atom and can be substituted by halogen, hydroxyl, amino, phenyl, morpholino, carboxy or alkoxycarbonyl with up to 4 carbon atoms and R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 each represent hydroxyl, or R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 together represent --O--, or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof.

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