A present invention provides aromatic amide derivatives which have an agonism of V2 receptor, are useful as agents for the treatment or prevention of diabetes insipidus, nocturia, nocturnal enuresis, overactive bladder or the like, and are represented by the general formula (I):
wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-6 alkyl group which may have a substituent, R2 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-6 alkyl group, R3 is a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group or the like, R4, R5 and R6 are independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or the like, R7 is a hydrogen atom, a heteroaryl group which may have a substituent, a C3-8 cycloalkyl group, an amino group which may have a substituent or a C1-6 alkoxy group which may have a substituted group;
M1 is a single bond, a C1-4 alkylene group or the like
Y is N or CRF (in the formula, RF represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group or the like
or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a prodrug thereof, or pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and pharmaceutical uses thereof.