Partial esters of (Di) chloromethanediphosphonic acid useful for treating disorders relating to the metabolism of calcium

Abstract

Novel pharmaceutically active bisphosphonic acid derivatives of formula (I), in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 independently are C.sub.1 -C.sub.22 -alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.22 -alkenyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.22 -alkynyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 -cycloalkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 -cycloalkenyl, aryl, aralkyl, silyl and hydrogen, and R.sup.4 is different from hydrogen, Q.sup.1 is hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine, and Q.sup.2 is chlorine, bromine or iodine, including the stereoisomers, such as the geometrical isomers and optically active isomers, of the compounds, as well as the pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds. ##STR1##

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