MARIBAVIR ISOMERS, COMPOSITIONS, METHODS OF MAKING AND METHODS OF USING

Abstract

The invention relates to novel compositions and methods of using maribavir which enhance its effectiveness in medical therapy, as well as to maribavir isomers and methods of use thereof for counteracting the potentially adverse effects of maribavir isomerization in vivo in the event it occurs.

Claims

1.-24. (canceled)

25. A method of treating a cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in a patient having a CMV infection, the method comprising orally administering to the patient the compound 5,6-dichloro-2-(isopropylamino)-1-(B-L-ribofuranosyl)-1H-benzimidazole in an amount of 800 mg twice a day.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein said compound is administered as a composition comprising a therapeutically acceptable adjuvant, excipient, or carrier medium, and wherein said composition is an immediate release formulation.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the immediate release formulation releases said compound from said formulation by dissolution in less than 60 minutes.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein the immediate release formulation releases said compound from said formulation in vivo in less than 60 minutes following administration.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0033] FIG. 1 shows chemical structures of maribavir and maribavir configurational stereoisomers that have the same configuration at the furanoysl anomer carbon.

[0034] FIG. 2 shows chemical structures of maribavir configurational stereoisomers that have the opposite configuration at the furanosyl anomer carbon.

[0035] FIG. 3 shows chemical structures of maribavir pyranosyl constitutional isomers)

[0036] A number of patent and non-patent documents are cited in the foregoing specification in order to describe the state of the art to which this invention pertains. The entire disclosure of each of these citations is incorporated by reference herein.

[0037] While certain of the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described and specifically exemplified above, it is not intended that the invention be limited to such embodiments. Various modifications may be made thereto without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention, as set forth in the following claims. Furthermore, the transitional terms comprising, consisting essentially of and consisting of define the scope of the appended claims, in original and amended form, with respect to what unrecited additional claim elements or steps, if any, are excluded from the scope of the claims. The term comprising is intended to be inclusive or open-ended and does not exclude additional, unrecited elements, methods step or materials. The phrase consisting of excludes any element, step or material other than those specified in the claim, and, in the latter instance, impurities ordinarily associated with the specified materials. The phrase consisting essentially of limits the scope of a claim to the specified elements, steps or materials and those that do not materially affect the basic and novel characteristic(s) of the claimed invention. All compositions or formulations identified herein can, in alternate embodiments, be more specifically defined by any of the transitional phases comprising, consisting essentially of and consisting of.