(-)-10,1L Methylenedioxy-N-N-propylnoraporphine and methods employing it for inhibiting the effects of epileptic seizures and for prevention and treatment of duodenal ulcers

摘要

A method for providing orally effective aporphine compounds, and new compounds which are orally effective in the prevention and treatment of duodenal ulcers and in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders having the following formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub. 1 is lower alkyl, substituted lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, lower alkenyl, substituted lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl, substituted lower alkynyl, phenyl lower alkyl, phenyl lower alkenyl and phenyl lower alkynyl, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are hydrogen, methyl, lower alkyl, substituted lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, lower alkenyl, substituted lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl, substituted lower alkynyl, phenyl lower alkyl, phenyl lower alkenyl and phenyl lower alkynyl and R.sub.4 is hydrogen, hydroxy, --O--R.sub.5 and ##STR2## and R. sub.5 is methyl and lower alkyl. Particularly effective are compounds wherein R.sub.4 is hydrogen.