# US 5,703,119 A · Benzylidene-lactone derivatives of fenamates and their thiocarbonyl analogs as inhibitors of proteoglycan degradation

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- Number: US 5,703,119 A
- Document ID: US5703119A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 08/448,817
- Filed: 1995-05-24
- Granted: 1997-12-30
- Earliest claimed: 1993-07-26
- Assignees: Warner-Lambert Company
- Inventors: Vijaykumar Baragi; Diane Harris Boschelli; David Thomas Connor; Richard Raymond Renkiewicz
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5703119A

## CPC

- C07D 307/64: Sulfur atoms
- C07D 307/58: One oxygen atom, e.g. butenolide
- C07D: HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS (macromolecular compounds C08)

## Abstract

The manufacture and use of compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein Y is O or S, R.sub.1 is hydrogen or alkyl, and R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are hydrogen or various substituent groups, and pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof. The compounds have activity as inhibitors of the IL-I or other agonist-induced proteoglycan degradation in bovine nasal cartilage and pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds are described to treat conditions advantageously affected by such inhibition including arthritis.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A compound of the formula ##STR8## wherein X is O;
Y is O or S;
R.sub.1 is hydrogen or lower alkyl;
n is an integer of 2; and
R.sub.2, R.sub.3 , R.sub.4, and R.sub.5 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, trifluoromethyl, lower alkyl, CN, hydroxy, lower alkoxy, S(O).sub.m -lower alkyl, NO.sub.2, or NR.sub.6 R.sub.7 wherein R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 are each independently hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkanoyl or benzoyl, and m is an integer of 0, 1, or 2, or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A compound of claim 1 wherein Y is O.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

A compound of claim 1 wherein Y is S.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

A compound of claim 1 wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

An antiarthritic pharmaceutical composition comprising an antiarthritic effective amount of a compound of claim 1 and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

A pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of a condition advantageously affected by the inhibition of IL-1 or other agonist-induced proteoglycan degradation which comprises an amount effective for the treatment of the condition of a compound of claim 1 together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

A method of treating arthritis in a mammal suffering therefrom which comprises administering to said mammal a pharmaceutical composition of claim 1.