LONG-CHAIN FATTY ACID ELONGATION ENZYME INHIBITOR COMPRISING ARYLSULFONYL DERIVATIVE AS ACTIVE INGREDIENT

摘要

[Problem] To provide compounds useful as preventives or remedies for circular system disorders, nervous system disorders, metabolic disorders, reproduction system disorders, digestive system disorders, neoplasm, infectious diseases, etc., or as herbicides. [Means for Solution] A long-chain fatty acyl elongase inhibitor comprising, as the active ingredient thereof, a compound or a pharmaceutically-active salt thereof of a formula (I):
[wherein W represents a hydrogen atom, a C 1-6 alkyl, etc.; X represents an aryl, a heteroaryl, etc.; n indicates 0 or 1; Z represents a hydrogen atom, a C 1-6 alkyl, etc.; A 1 , A 2 , A 3 and A 4 each independently represent CH or N].