Substituted dialkanolamines, oxazine and sulfur analogs thereof, useful in treating shipping fever syndrome in mammals are disclosed having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: Ar is ##STR2## Z is oxygen or sulfur; R is selected from hydrogen, loweralkyl or ##STR3## R.sup.1 R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are selected from hydrogen or loweralkyl; and ##STR4## when taken together may form a lowercycloalkyl ring or R.sup.5 with --ZR.sup.2 when taken together may form a 5-membered saturated oxygen or sulfur containing heterocyclic ring; X is selected from hydrogen, halo, loweralkoxy, loweralkyl, trifluoromethyl or dimethylamino and when X is more than 1, it may be the same radical or different; y is 0, 1 or 2; n is one, or zero and when n is 1, the stereoisomers thereof and when n is zero the dotted line becomes an oxygen-carbon bond forming an oxazine ring and the pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof.
Derivatives of 2-amino-1-phenylethanol were prepared from substituted amines and benzoin, stilbene oxide or styrene oxide to give compounds of Formula: ##STR1## where R is H or (un)substituted phenyl and C is a linking group or terminal group. The compounds of this invention can inhibit ulceration in in-vivo studies in rats.
A method for the treatment of depression in a human being, the method comprising administering to the human being an antidepressant effective amount of a compound of the following formula ##STR1## or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R and R.sup.1 are independently hydrogen or fluorine.
