Femoxetine

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Femoxetine
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administration 		Oral
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  • In general: uncontrolled
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Elimination half-life 7–27 hours
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  • (3R,4S)-3-[(4-methoxyphenoxy)methyl]-1-methyl-4-phenyl-piperidine
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Formula C20H25NO2
Molar mass 311.425 g·mol−1
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Femoxetine (INN; tentative brand name Malexil; developmental code name FG-4963) is a drug related to paroxetine that was being developed as an antidepressant by Danish pharmaceutical company Ferrosan in 1975 before acquisition of the company by Novo Nordisk. It acts as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). Development was halted to focus attention on paroxetine instead, as femoxetine could not be administered as a daily pill.

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Both femoxetine and paroxetine were invented in the 1970s. Jørgen Anders Christensen's name is on the patents [1] [2] and Jorgen Buus-Lassen's name is on the pharmacology paper. [3]

After Ferrosan's acquisition, femoxetine died from neglect. [4]

In a separate patent, Ferrosan stated that Femoxetine could be used as an appetite suppressant, [5] using ten times the dosage than for paroxetine, 300 - 400mg daily.

Femoxetine has the same stereochemical properties as Nocaine, another agent with a similar structure claimed to have been synthesized using arecoline as the starting alkaloid.[ citation needed ]

Analogs

  1. Addition of the para-fluoro atom results in a different compound that is a hybrid of femoxetine & paroxetine named FG 7080, [6] which has a separate patent. [7] According to the patent tables, incorporation of the fluorine atom potentiated the 5-HT affinity considerably.
  2. Pfizer made some similar analogs [8] E.g. a Viloxazine type of catechol ether is used, but 4-phenyl instead of based on a morpholine ring.
  3. NNC-63-0780. [9] [10] binds to ORL1 instead of SERT.

See also

References

  1. ↑ U.S. patent 3,912,743
  2. ↑ U.S. patent 4,007,196
  3. ↑ Lassen JB, Petersen E, Kjellberg B, Olsson SO (May 1975). "Comparative studies of a new 5HT-uptake inhibitor and some tricyclic thymoleptics". European Journal of Pharmacology. 32 (1): 108–15. doi:10.1016/0014-2999(75)90329-5. PMID   1149822.
  4. ↑ Healy D (2004). Let them eat Prozac: the unhealthy relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and depression . New York, NY: New York Univ. Press. pp.  26–27. ISBN   9780814736692. Jørgen Buus Lassen femoxetine.
  5. ↑ U.S. patent 4,442,113
  6. ↑ "(3S,4R)-4-(4-Fluorophenyl)-3-[(4-methoxyphenoxy)methyl]piperidine". PubChem. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  7. ↑ U.S. patent 4,585,777
  8. ↑ U.S. patent 20,070,142,389
  9. ↑ Bignan GC, Connolly PJ, Middleton SA (2005). "Recent advances towards the discovery of ORL-1 receptor agonists and antagonists". Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents. 15 (4): 357–388 6. doi:10.1517/13543776.15.4.357. S2CID   94720416.
  10. ↑ "CID:9862655". PubChem. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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