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USOO56O7966A United States Patent (19) 11) Patent Number: 5,607,966 Hellberg et al. (45) Date of Patent: Mar. 4, 1997 54 ESTERS AND AMIDES OF NON-STEROIDAL Insel, P.; "Analgesic-Antipyretics and Antiinfmammatory ANTI-NFLAMMATORY CARBOXYLC Agents'; Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological ACDS WHICH MAYBE USED AS Basis of Therapeutics; Pergman Press, New York (1990) ANTI-OXEDANTS, 5-LPOXYGENASE 638-669, 681. NHBTORS AND NON-STEROIDAL "Antioxidant properties of some chemicals vs their influence ANTI-NFLAMMATORY PRODRUGS on cyclooxygenase and lipoxidase activities'; Biochemical Pharmacology 32 (14) (1983) 2283-2286. (75) Inventors: Mark R. Hellberg, Arlington; Gustav Bellavite, P.; "The Superoxide-Forming Enzymatic System Graf, Cleburne, both of Tex. of Phagocytes'; Free Radical Biology & Medicine 4 (1988) 255-261. 73) Assignee: Alcon Laboratories, Inc., Fort Worth, Duchstein and Gurka; "Activated Species of Oxygen'; Tex. Archives of Pharmacology 325 (1992) 129-146. 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Goa and Chrisp, "Ocular Diclofenac'; Drugs & Aging 206) (1992) 473–486. 33 Claims, No Drawings 5,607,966 1. 2 ESTERS AND AMDES OF NON-STEROIDAL erences do not disclose the compounds of the present ANTI-NFLAMMATORY CARBOXYLIC invention. ACDS WHICH MAY BE USED AS The present invention is directed to the provision of new ANTI-OXIDANTS, 5-LPOXYGENASE compounds that have both potent anti-inflammatory activity NHIBITORS AND NON-STEROIDAL and potent anti-oxidant activity in a single molecule. The use ANTI-NFLAMMATORY PRODRUGS of a single chemical entity with potent anti-inflammatory and potent anti-oxidant activity provides increased protec tion relative to the use of a compound with singular activity. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The use of a single agent having both activities over a 10 combination of two different agents provides uniform deliv The present invention is directed to the provision of ery of an active molecule, thereby simplifying issues of drug compounds having potent anti-inflammatory and anti-oxi metabolism, toxicity and delivery. dant activity. The invention is further directed to composi tions containing the compounds of the present invention for SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION use in pharmaceutical applications. The invention is also 15 directed to methods of using the compounds and composi The present invention provides new compounds having tions of the present invention to prevent and treat inflam potent anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant activity. The dual matory disorders including ocular inflammation associated therapeutic efficacies act in a complementary manner to with ophthalmic disease and ophthalmic surgery. reduce cellular damage. Additionally, the compounds of the Inflammation from cellular stress can cause excessive 20 present invention also exhibit other anti-inflammatory activ tissue damage. Numerous biochemical pathways are known ity not present in the individual agents. to lead to inflammation. In general, the cyclooxygenase The compounds of the present invention are useful as system produces prostaglandins, while the lipoxygenase cytoprotective agents. These compounds include a non system produces leukotrienes, "HETEs” and "FFPETEs”. steroidal anti-inflammatory agent (NSAIA) moiety and an Such agents have been associated with inflammation. See 25 anti-oxidant moiety. In order to provide effective therapy for generally, Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological inflammatory disorders, the present invention takes advan Basis of Therapeutics, pages 600-617, Pergman Press, New tage of these individual efficacies. In addition, the present York (1990). Therapies designed to inhibit the production of invention improves upon these individual efficacies by pro these types of agents are therefore of great interest. viding greater drug delivery to the targettissues by means of Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIA) have 30 administering a single drug having multiple therapeutic been used for the treatment of inflammatory disorders. The actions. Finally, the compounds of the present invention following references may be referred to for further back exhibit therapeutic properties which are not present in the ground concerning this use of NSAIAS: individual moieties of the compounds. These and other Ophthalmoscope, volume 8, page 257 (1910); advantages of the present invention will be apparent to those Nature, New Biology volume 231, page 232 (1971); 35 skilled in the art based on the following description. FASEB Journal, volume 1, page 89 (1987); and The NSAIA component of the compounds provides anti Inflammation and Mechanisms and Action of Traditional inflammatory activity. The use of these NSAIAs will provide Drugs, Vol. I Anti-inflammatory and Anti-rheumatic inhibition of cyclooxygenase, an important enzyme involved drugs. Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, (1985). in the prostaglandin/inflammation pathway. The compounds However, there are some problems associated with NSAIA also include an anti-oxidant component. As oxidative stress treatment including delivery to the appropriate site of action has been implicated in inflammatory responses, the presence and side effects (Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmaco logical Basis of Therapeutics, pages 638-669, Pergman of an anti-oxidant will further help treat the target tissue. Press, New York (1990)). The compounds of the present invention also exhibit Free radical molecules also play a major role in inflam 45 properties present only in the combined molecule, not in the mation. These unstable chemical moieties lead to the oxi individual components. One such property is the inhibitory dation of tissue resulting in damage. Such oxidative stress efficacy against 5-lipoxygenase, an enzyme known to be and damage has been described in Biochemical Pharmacol involved in inflammation. ogy, 32(14), 2283-2286 (1983) and Free Radicals