| abstract |
The present invention refers to heteroarylpiperidines, heteroarylpiperazines and heteroarylpyrrolidines that are useful as antipsychotic and analgesic agents, and have general formula (I) (see formula I) wherein X is oxygen, sulfur or amine, Y is hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, hydroxyl trifluoromethyl, nitro, amino, or halogen group, and Q1 is a substituted piperidine, piperazine, or pyrrolidine. The compounds are especially useful for treating psychoses by administering to an animal a psychoses-treating effective amount of one of the compounds. The compounds are also useful as analgesics by administering a pain-relieving effective amount of one of the compounds to an animal. |