2-(5-Phenyl-2-furyl)imidazoles

• US 4,012,414 A
• Filed: 01/29/1976
• Issued: 03/15/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Norwich Eaton Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (The Procter & Gamble Company)
• Original Assignee: Morton-Norwich Products, Inc.
• Inventors: Pelosi, Stanford S. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trousof, Natalie
• Application Number:
  US05/653,295
• Time in Patent Office: 411 Days
• Field of Search: 260/309
• US Class Current: 548/315.4
• CPC Class Codes: C07D 307/68 Carbon atoms having three bonds to hetero atoms with at the most one bond to halogen

Abstract

A series of 2-(5-phenyl-2-furyl)imidazoles are useful as antidepressants.

Claims

1. A compound of the formula:

##STR3##wherein X represents hydrogen, 2-nitro, 4-nitro, 4-amino, and 4-acetyl.

2. The compound 2-[5-(4-nitrophenyl)-2-furyl]imidazole hydrochloride.

3. The compound 2-[5-(4-aminophenyl)-2-furyl]imidazole hydrochloride.

4. The compound 2-[5-(2-nitrophenyl)-2-furyl]imidazole hydrochloride.

5. The compound 2-(5-phenyl-2-furyl)imidazole hydrochloride.

6. The compound 2-[5-(4-acetylphenyl)-2-furyl]imidazole hydrochloride.