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The invention discloses a preparation method and application of a novel midazolam hydrochloride crystal form, and gives the X-ray powder diffraction characteristic value of the crystal form. The disclosed novel midazolam hydrochloride crystal form is name

Certain embodiments of the invention provide a formulation suitable for nasal administration comprising water, a prodrug of a therapeutic agent, and an enzyme that is suitable for intranasal conversion of the prodrug to the therapeutic agent, as well as methods of use thereof.

The present invention refers to a process for the preparation of 4H-imidazo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepines, in particular Midazolam, through an efficient and selective decarboxylation reaction of the derivative compound of the 5-aminomethyl-1-phenyl-1H-imidazole-4-carboxylic acid of formula (II) avoiding the formation of the 6H-imidazo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepines by-products and the ensuing process for the isomerisation of a 4H-imidazo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine product.

The present invention refers to a process for the preparation of 4H-imidazo[1,5-a] [1,4]benzodiazepines, in particular Midazolam, through an efficient and selective decarboxylation reaction of the derivative compound of the 5-aminomethyl-1-phenyl-1H-imidazole-4-carboxylic acid of formula (II) avoiding the formation of the 6H-imidazo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepines by-products and the ensuing process for the isomerisation of a 4H-imidazo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine product.

Novel Imidazobenzodiazepines and their analogs are useful as anticonvulsants, muscle relaxant, anxiolytic and sedative agents. Preferred compounds of this class belong to the imidazo[1,5-a][1,4]diazepine series which may have a very wide variety of organic substituents. An especially preferred genus included within the purview of the invention encompasses a compound of the formula STR1 wherein R1 is hydrogen and lower alkyl preferably methyl; R3 and R5 are hydrogen; R4 is hydrogen, nitro and halogen, most preferably, chlorine, and in a most preferred embodiment when positioned on the fused benzo portion of the imidazobenzodiazepine is in the 8-position thereof, R6 is phenyl or halo, nitro, or lower alkyl-substituted phenyl, preferably, halo, with fluorine being the preferred halogen, the substituted fluoro being positioned in the 2-position of the phenyl moiety and R2 is hydrogen and lower alkyl.