The instant invention relates to sulphamate compounds of formula I, wherein A represents a ring structure, B represents a ring structure, D a ring structure, C is a bond, E is a link joining ring structure B to the ring structure D, X represents a suitable first group, and Y represents a suitable second group; wherein one ring of the compound is a phenolic ring; and wherein any one of ring structures A, B and D has bound thereto a sulphamate group.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a divisional of allowed U.S. application Ser. No. 09/638,315, filed Aug. 14, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,506,792, as a continuation-in-part of allowed U.S. apllication Ser. No. 09/238,345, filed Jan. 27, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,187,266 which was a division of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/111,927, filed Jul. 8, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,011,024, which in turn was a continuation-in-part of inter alia PCT patent application No. PCT/GB97/00600, filed Mar. 4, 1997, designating the U.S. and claiming priority from United Kingdom patent applications 9604709.7 and 9605725.2, filed Mar. 5 and 19, 1996, respectively. PCT/GB97/00600 was published as WO 97/32872 on Sep. 12, 1997. U.S. application Ser. No. 09/142,194, filed Sep. 2, 1998 as the National Phase (35 USC 371) of PCT/GB97/00600 is now U.S. Pat. No. 6,083,978. Each of these applications and patents and each document cited or referenced in each of these applications and patents, including during any prosecution ("application cited documents"), and each document cited or referenced in each of the application cited documents, are hereby incorporated herein by reference. In addition, each document cited in this text ("herein cited documents") and each document cited or referenced in each of the herein cited documents, are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
Priority Data
Mar 05, 1996 [GB] 9604709.7 Mar 19, 1996 [GB] 9605725.2
