Chemistry:Aprobarbital

From HandWiki
Short description: Chemical compound
Aprobarbital
Aprobarbital.svg
Aprobarbital ball-and-stick animation.gif
Clinical data
Other namesaprobarbitone, Oramon, allylpropymal, Alurate, 5-isopropyl- 5-allylbarbituric acid
AHFS/Drugs.comInternational Drug Names
ATC code
Legal status
Legal status
Identifiers
CAS Number
PubChem CID
DrugBank
ChemSpider
UNII
KEGG
ChEBI
ChEMBL
Chemical and physical data
FormulaC10H14N2O3
Molar mass210.233 g·mol−1
3D model (JSmol)
  (verify)

Aprobarbital (or aprobarbitone), sold as Oramon, Somnifaine, and Allonal, is a barbiturate derivative invented in the 1920s by Ernst Preiswerk. It has sedative, hypnotic and anticonvulsant properties, and was used primarily for the treatment of insomnia.[1] Aprobarbital was never as widely used as more common barbiturate derivatives such as phenobarbital and is now rarely prescribed as it has been replaced by newer drugs with a better safety margin.

See also

References

  1. "[Oramon poisoning in infancy and childhood. Observations on 12 aprobarbital poisonings]" (in de). Das Deutsche Gesundheitswesen 21 (19): 878–81. May 1966. PMID 5973760.