Abstract:
The invention concerns the novel compounds dialkyl 2-(3-fluoro-4-nitrophenyl)-2-methylmalonate IIIa and dialkyl 2-(3-fluoro-4-aminophenyl)-2-methylmalonate IVa useful as intermediates in an improved process for making 2-(2-fluoro-4-biphenylyl)propionic acid, known as flurbiprofen, having the formula ##STR1## and ester thereof. It has anti-inflammatory activity which is about 240 times that of aspirin and analgesic activity which is about 180 times that of aspirin in standard laboratory tests. However, despite this high activity, the toxicity (LD.sub.50) is only 1.2 to 2.4 times greater than that of aspirin in standard laboratory tests.Also within the invention is a novel method of making the above intermediates and analogs thereof useful to prepare corresponding biaryl compounds which have pharmaceutical uses.
Abstract:
Novel compounds of the formula ##STR1## are disclosed in which R.sup.1 is a phenyl, phenoxy, phenylthio, benzyl or heterocyclic radical which may be substituted, and R.sup.2 is hydrogen, a substituted-vinylcyclopropanecarbonyl group, a tetramethylcyclopropanecarbonyl group, or a 1-(substituted-phenyl)-2-methylpropylcarbonyl group. The compounds wherein R.sup.2 is other than hydrogen are insecticides.
Abstract:
The (+), (-) and (.+-.) forms of the compounds of formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a methoxy, ethoxy, propoxy, methylthio, ethylthio, propylthio, fluoro, chloro, bromo, methyl, ethyl, nitro or amino group,andR.sup.2 is a hydrogen or methyl group or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together form a methylenedioxy group;R.sup.3 is hydrogen, or a lower alkyl group, or one of the following groups (a) to (d):(a) m-phenoxybenzyl(b) 2-benzyl-4-furylmethyl(c) .alpha.-cyano-m-phenoxybenzyl(d) 3-4-methylenedioxy-benzyl,andR.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are the same or different groups and each is a fluoro, bromo, chloro or methyl group.The compounds of formula I in which R.sup.3 is one of groups (a) to (d) are extremely active as insecticides (except when R.sup.1 is an amino group). The compounds also possess the property of contact repellency to insects.
Abstract:
A process has been developed for the preparation of mixtures of dinitroanthraquinones with a high content of 1,5- and 1,8- dinitroanthraquinone by nitration with nitric acid in the presence of sulphuric acid with heating wherein anthraquinone, 1-nitroanthraquinone or a mixture of them is treated with about 1.5 to about 2.5 times the amount by weight of nitric acid, relative to the feed material, in the presence of about 0.75 times to twice the amount by weight, relative to nitric acid, of sulphuric acid, the temperature first being kept in the range from room temperature to about 50.degree. C. until at least 50% of the starting material or materials has been dinitrated, then adjusting the temperature to about 50.degree. C. to about 70.degree. C. to complete the dinitration.
Abstract:
A phenoxycarboxylic acid derivative having the formula ##STR1## wherein R represents ##STR2## and X.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, trifluoromethyl group, nitro group or cyano group and X.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, nitro group or cyano group, R' represents ##STR3## and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same and different and respectively represent hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, is produced by reacting a phenol compound having the formula ##STR4## with a halogen compound havingX--R'wherein X represents a halogen atom in the presence of a base. The reaction is carried out in the presence of a quarternary ammonium salt or a quaternary phosphonium salt in a nonpolar solvent.
Abstract:
3-Benzoyl-2-nitrophenylacetic acids, metal salts, amides and esters are disclosed having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R.sub.2 is OH, OM, O-lower alkyl, NH.sub.2, NH-lower alkyl or N,N-dilower alkyl; X is hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, trifluoromethyl or nitro and M is a pharmaceutically acceptable cation or a fraction thereof when the cation is multivalent, hydrates thereof and n is 1-3 inclusive. The compounds have anti-inflammatory activity and methods and pharmaceutical compositions for use thereof are disclosed.
Abstract:
A process for the preparation of substituted fluorobenzenes which contain a nitro group or a cyano group and may or may not contain an aliphatic radical or an additional halogen atom, wherein the corresponding substituted chlorobenzene is reacted with potassium fluoride in the presence of a crown ether and a solvent at from 150.degree. to 230.degree. C.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to novel herbicidally active phenoxyphenoxyalkanecarboxylic acid esters, compositions which contain these compounds as active ingredient, and a method of selectively controlling weeds in crops of cultivated plants or of regulating plant growth which comprises the use of these compounds.The phenoxyphenoxyalkanecarboxylic acid esters have the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, halogen or cyano,R.sub.2 is hydrogen or lower alkyl,R.sub.3 is a radical OR.sub.4 or SR.sub.5,R.sub.4 is a substituted alkyl radical, an alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl radical, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl or benzyl radical or a 5- to 6-membered heterocyclic radical, andR.sub.5 is an unsubstituted alkyl radical or has the same meaning as R.sub.4.
Abstract:
Fluorine substituted phenoxybenzylcarbonyl derivatives of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents hydrogen, cyano or ethynyl andR.sup.2 represents the radical ##STR2## wherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which are identical, each represent chlorine, bromine or methyl, orR.sup.2 represents the radical ##STR3## wherein R.sup.5 represents a phenyl ring which optionally carries one or more substituents each selected independently from halogen, alkyl, alkylthio and alkoxy each with 1-4 carbon atoms, nitro and methylenedioxy,which possess arthropodicidal properties. The benzyl alcohol components of these esters are also new.
Abstract:
A process for the manufacture of indigoid dyes, wherein a functional derivative of the anthranilic acid of the general formula I ##STR1## in which A completes a mono- or polynuclear, substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring,X represents a hydrogen atom or a protective group for the free amino group which can form an anhydro derivative with the carboxyl group in the ortho-position,Is reacted with nitromethane in the presence of a base or with a salt of nitroacetic acid to give the .omega.-nitro-o-amino-acetophenone derivative of the general formula II ##STR2## in which A and X are as defined in formula I, and this intermediate is condensed by heating with acids to give the indigo compound of the general formula III ##STR3## in which A is as defined in formula I.