Chemistry:Butomidate

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Butomidate is an anesthetic drug related to etomidate, which has been sold as a designer drug as an active ingredient in e-cigarette liquids marketed under names such as space oil or kpods. It has an n-butyl ester group in place of the ethyl ester of etomidate.[1][2][3][4]

References

  1. "Leveraging mass spectrometry fragmentation patterns for accelerated screening and structural elucidation of new etomidate analogues in suspect samples". Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 265. November 2025. doi:10.1016/j.jpba.2025.117023. PMID 40532400. 
  2. "Identification of two novel imidazole-derived GABA agonists butomidate and tf-etomidate in e-cigarette liquids". Forensic Toxicology. July 2025. doi:10.1007/s11419-025-00732-5. PMID 40643820. 
  3. "Traceability of etomidate and its analogs in biological samples using "specific" metabolites". Analytical Methods 17 (36): 7207–7216. September 2025. doi:10.1039/D5AY00773A. PMID 40879556. 
  4. "Substance details: Butomidate". UNODC. 2025. https://www.unodc.org/LSS/Substance/Details/68cb3882-6de4-45b3-ba80-147fa4d98ab6.