Patent ID: 7361679

Claim:
A 2-phenyl-3-heteroarylpropionic acid derivative of the general formula (I), wherein Het is an aromatic heterocyclic ring selected from the group consisting of pyridinone, indole, pyrrole, thiazole, furan, thiophene, oxazole, pyridine, pyrimidine, pyrazine, quinoline, and phthalimide, and each X1, X2 or X3 is independently a hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group that bonds to the benzene ring directly or via oxygen, —N(R 1 )COR 2 , in which each of R 1 and R 2 is independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon or heteroaryl group which may have an oxygen atom at a terminal bonding site, and R 1 and R 2 may bond to each other and form a ring that may contain a hetero atom, a double bond or a substituent, provided that when two substituents of X1, X2 and X3 bond to adjacent carbon atoms, the two substituents may bond to each other and form a benzene ring or a methylenedioxy group, and wherein at least one of X4 and X5 in the general formula (I) is a group represented by any one of the general formulae (II) to (V): —OCH 2 —R 11 (III) —CH═CH—R 11 (IV) —C≡C—R 11 (V) wherein R 4 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 15 carbon atoms and R 11 is a group represented by the general formula (VI) or (VII), wherein each of R 5 and R 6 is independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group or a hydrocarbon or heteroaryl group that bonds to the benzene ring or the aromatic heterocyclic ring directly or through an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, an oxycarbonyl group, a carbonyl group, a carbonyloxy group, a sulfonyl group or a sulfinyl group, —NR7R8, —N(R 7 )COR 8 , —N(R 7 )SO2R 8 , —N(R 7 )CONR 8 R 9 or —CONR 7 R 8 , in which each of R 7 , R 8 and R 9 is independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon or heteroaryl group which may have an oxygen atom at a terminal bonding site, and R 7 and R 8 may bond, or R 8 and R 9 may bond, to each other and form a ring that may contain a hetero atom, a double bond or a substituent, Het is an aromatic heterocyclic ring and R 10 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 15 carbon atoms, or a salt thereof.