Patent ID: 6890935

Claim:
A compound of the formula: where X is carbon bonded to a substituent species selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, heterocycyl, substituted heterocycly, cycloalkyl, substituted cycoalkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, alkylaryl, substituted alkylaryl; arylakyl, substituted arylaklyl, halo, —OR′, —NR′R″, —CF 3 , —CN, —NO 2 , —C 2 R′, —SR′, —N 3 , C(═O)NR′R″, —NR′C(═O)R″, —C(═O)R′, —C(═O)OR′, —OC(═O)R′, —O(CR′R″), C(═O)R′, —O(CR′R″) r NR′R″, —O(CR′R″) r NR″C(═O)R′, —O(CR′R″) r NR″SO 2 R′, —OC(═O)NR′R″, —NR′C(═O)OR″, —SO 2 R′, —SO 2 NR′R″, and —NR′SO 2 R″, where R′ and R″ are individually hydrogen, lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, heterocyclyl, or an aromatic group-containing species selected from the group consisting of phenyl, benzyl, pyridinyl, pyrimidinyl, pyrazinyl, pyridazinyl, indolyl and quinolinyl, and r is an integer from 1 to 6, or R′ and R″ can together form a cycloaklyl group; X′ is COR′ where R′ is selected from the group consisting of aryl, substituted aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, non-aromatic heterocyclyl, substituted non-aromatic heterocyclyl, non-aromatic heterocyclylalkyl and substituted non-aromatic heterocyclylalkyl; m is an integer and n is an integer such that the sum of m plus n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; E, E I , E II , E III individually represent hydrogen or a suitable non-hydrogen substituent; selected from the group consisting of alkyl, substituted alkyl, halo-substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, heterocyclyl, substituted heterocyclyl, aryl, substituted aryl, alkylaryl, substituted alkylaryl, arylalkyl and substituted arylalkyl; and Q is selected from: where Z′ represents hydrogen or lower alkyl, acyl, alkoxycarbonyl, or aryloxycarbonyl; Z″ is hydrogen or lower alkyl; and Z′″ is a non-hydrogen substituent selected from the group consisting of alkyl, substituted alkyl, halo-substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, heterocyclyl, substituted heterocyclyl, aryl, substituted aryl, alkylaryl, substituted alkylaryl, arylalkyl and substituted arylalkyl; the dotted lines indicates a carbon-carbon single bond or a carbon-carbon double bond, p is 0, 1 or 2; q is 0, 1, 2, or 3; and j is an integer from 0 to 3, wherein Z′″j refers to j number of Z′″ substituents.