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Abstract

Compounds are disclosed having the formulae: ##STR1## .Iadd.wherein R' is hydrogen, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy; r is 0 or 1 and p is zero to four; and .Iaddend. wherein R.sub.1 is selected from the group, consisting of radicals represented by the general formulae: ##STR2## wherein Y is selected from the group consisting of lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, and halogen; Z is oxygen, sulfur or --NH, Q is --CH or nitrogen; a is zero or an integer of from one to three; and wherein, R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and straight chain, branched and cyclic hydrocarbyl radicals having from one to four carbon atoms, and optionally substituted with a hydroxyl radical; and wherein X is two hydrogen atoms or oxygen and B is selected from oxygen and nitrogen, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, with the proviso that when X is two hydrogen atoms, B is oxygen, and with the further proviso that when B is oxygen then R.sub.1 cannot be a phenyl or a substituted phenyl radical. Pharmaceutical preparations using these compounds and a method for inducing an adenosine response mediated by the adenosine A.sub.2 receptor by administering these compounds are also disclosed.

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