Patent ID: 8329739

Claim:
A phenylimidazole compound represented by the following General Formula (1): wherein R 1 represents a hydrogen atom, a phenyl lower alkyl group or a pyridyl lower alkyl group, and the benzene ring and the pyridine ring are optionally substituted with 1 or 2 substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms, cyano group and halogen-substituted lower alkyl groups; one of R 2 and R 3 represents a hydrogen atom and the other represents a lower alkoxy group; R 4 represents a lower alkyl group, a furyl group, a thienyl group or a phenyl group optionally substituted with 1 or 2 substituents selected from the group consisting of lower alkyl groups, lower alkoxy groups, halogen atoms, carboxyl group, lower alkoxycarbonyl groups and halogen-substituted lower alkyl groups; R 5 and R 6 are the same or different, and represent a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R 7 and R 8 are the same or different, and represent a hydrogen atom or a lower alkoxy group; however, when R 1 represents an unsubstituted phenyl lower alkyl group, R 2 represents a lower alkoxy group, R 3 represents a hydrogen atom, R 4 represents an unsubstituted phenyl group or a phenyl group having 1 or 2 halogen-substituted lower alkyl groups, and R 5 represents a hydrogen atom, R 6 is not a hydrogen atom.