ANALOGIFREMGANGSMAATE FOR FREMSTILLING AV NYE FENOLISKE TIOETERE SOM INHIBITORER FOR 5-LIPOKSYGENASE

The compounds of the present invention comprise substituted phenolic thioethers represented by the formula: (I) wherein: R1 and R2 are the same or different and independently represent tert-alkyl or phenyl; A represents methylene or methylene substituted by alkyl, dialkyl or hydroxy, provided that when A includes hydroxymethylene, the hydroxymethylene group is not adjacent to a heteroatom; B represents sulfur, sulfoxide, sulfone, oxygen, -NH- or nitrogen substituted by alkyl, phenyl, benzyl, substituted phenyl or substituted benzyl; C represents methylene or methylene substituted by alkyl; R3 represents CO2H, CO2-alkyl or a tetrazole group; m is 0 or 1, n is 2, 3 or 4 and p is 1, 2 or 3; and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds of the present invention are specific inhibitors of 5-lipoxygenase and, therefore, are useful in the treatment of local and systemic inflammation, allergy and hypersensitivity reactions and other disorders in which agents formed in the 5-lipoxygenase metabolic pathway are involved.