| abstract |
Pharmaceutically useful compounds having ACAT inhibitory activity of formula (1) wherein n is zero, one or two; R1 is phenyl; substituted phenyl, naphthyl, substituted naphthyl, a heteroaromatic group or a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms; R2 and R3 are hydrogen, halo, hydroxy, alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl, a heteroaryl, or form a spiroalkyl group, and R4 is a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms. |