Patent ID: 6071943
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: C07D

Abstract:
An imidazole compound represented by the following general formula (1'): ##STR8## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl, alkoxy or alkoxycarbonyl group, and R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are the same or different from one another and are independently a hydrogen or halogen atom, or an alkyl group, a halogenoalkyl group, a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group, a carboxyl group, a nitro group, a tetrahydropyranyloxy group, an alkoxyalkoxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a cyano group, a tetrazolyl group, a phenyl group which may be substituted, a phenoxy group which may be substituted, a benzyloxy group which may be substituted, an amino group which may be substituted, or a dioxolanyl group which may be substituted, or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may form a fused aromatic ring, which may be substituted, together with a benzene ring on which R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are substituted, with the proviso that R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are not hydrogen atoms at the same time, or a salt thereof.