EP0639374A2 — New treatments using phenethyl derivatives

USPTO Abstract

This invention provides use of a following compound to prepare a medicament for treating obesity, generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, late luteal phase disphoric disorder (premenstrual syndrome), attention deficit disorder, with and without hyperactivity, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, bulimia nervosa or Shy Drager Syndrome. The compound is a hydroxycycloalkanephenethyl amine of the following structural formula: in which A is a moiety of the formula where the dotted line represents optional unsaturation; R 1 is hydrogen or alkyl; R 2 is alkyl; R 4 is hydrogen, alkyl, formyl, or alkanoyl; R 5 and R 6 are, independently, hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl, alkoxy, alkanoyloxy, cyano, nitro, alkylmercapto, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, alkanamido, halo, trifluoromethyl, or taken together, methylene dioxy; R 7 is hydrogen or alkyl; and n is 0 , 1, 2, 3, or 4; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.