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Chlormezanone

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Routes of administration
  
Oral

Biological half-life
  
40.5 hours

Molar mass
  
273.737 g/mol

ATC code
  
M03BB02 (WHO)

CAS Number
  
80-77-3

CAS ID
  
80-77-3

Chlormezanone

AHFS/Drugs.com
  
International Drug Names

Legal status
  
In general: ℞ (Prescription only)

How to pronounce chlormezanone


Chlormezanone (marketed under the brandname Trancopal or Fenaprim) is a drug used as an anxiolytic and a muscle relaxant.

Contents

Its use was discontinued in many countries from 1996 on, due to rare but serious cases of toxic epidermal necrolysis.

Synthesis

  • Sterling Drug Inc., US 3082209  (1958).
  • Surrey, A. R.; Webb, W. G.; Gesler, R. M. (1958). "Central Nervous System Depressants. The Preparation of Some 2-Aryl-4-metathiazanones". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 80 (13): 3469. doi:10.1021/ja01546a065. 
  • References

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