N-SUBSTITUIERTE PEPTIDYLNITRILE ALS CYSTEIN- CATHEPSIN-INHIBITOREN

• Main Authors: COWEN, SCOTT, DOUGLAS, VAN DUZER, JOHN, HENRY, GREENSPAN, PAUL, DAVID, MCQUIRE, LESLIE, WIGHTON, TOMMASI, RUBEN, ALBERTO
• Format: Patent
• Language: German
• Published: 15.09.2005
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMISTRY; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS

Compounds of the formula (I), wherein R1 is aryl or biaryl; R2 is aryl-lower alkyl, biaryl-lower alkyl, benzo-fused cycloalkyl, cycloalkyl-lower alkyl, bicycloalkyl-lower alkyl, aryloxy-lower alkyl, or aryl-C2-C7-alkyl in which C2-C7-alkyl is interrupted by Y; Y is O, S, SO, SO2, CO or NR6; R3 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; or R2 and R3 combined are C2-C7-alkylene or C2-C7-alkylene interrupted by Y; R4 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R5 is hydrogen, optionally substituted lower alkyl, aryl-lower alkyl, biaryl-lower alkyl, cycloalkyl-lower alkyl, bicycloalkyl-lower alkyl, aryloxy-lower alkyl, or aryl-C2-C7-alkyl in which C2-C7-alkyl is interrupted by Y; R6 is hydrogen, lower alkyl or aryl-lower alkyl; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are useful as cysteine cathepsin inhibitors.