omega-Amino-2-hydroxy-p-fluorobutyrophenones: synthesis and preliminary pharmacological evaluation.

A series of omega-amino-2-hydroxy-p-fluorobutyrophenones have been synthesized to evaluate the influence exerted by a hydroxyl group in alpha-position to the carbonyl on the persistence of their neuroleptic and collateral properties. The new compounds generally did not show any neuroleptic activity while some of them were still hypotensive; this last effect, however, did not seem to be related to their alpha-adrenolytic properties.