Chemistry:Mequitazine

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Short description: Chemical compound
Mequitazine
Mequitazine structure.svg
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Trade namesPrimalan
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  • EU: Rx-only [1]
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FormulaC20H22N2S
Molar mass322.47 g·mol−1
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Mequitazine (trade name Primalan) is an H1 antagonist and anticholinergic of the phenothiazine chemical class. It is used to treat allergies and rhinitis.

It was patented in 1969 and came into medical use in 1976.[2]

Contraindications

Severe liver disease; premature infants or full-term neonates.

Special precautions

Pregnancy, lactation; severe cardiovascular disorders; asthma; angle-closure glaucoma, urinary retention, prostatic hyperplasia, pyloroduodenal obstruction; renal and hepatic impairment; elderly, children; epilepsy. May impair ability to drive or operate machinery.

Adverse reactions

CNS depression including slight drowsiness to deep sleep, lassitude, dizziness, incoordination. Headache, psychomotor impairment and antimuscarinic effects. Rarely, rashes and hypersensitivity reactions, blood disorders, convulsions, sweating, myalgia, paraesthesias, extrapyramidal effects, tremor, confusion, sleep and GI disturbances, tinnitus, hypotension, hair loss. Photosensitivity, jaundice.

Drug interactions

Enhances effects of CNS depressants e.g. alcohol, barbiturates, hypnotics, opioid analgesics, anxiolytics and antipsychotics. Can mask signs of ototoxicity caused by aminoglycosides. QT prolongation (which can lead to torsades de pointes arrhythmia) reported with spiramycin.

Synthesis

Same precursor as for Quifenadine. Note that the synthesis has changed over the years from the original. One route seems to involve a Johnson–Corey–Chaykovsky reaction of the starting ketone, although another secondary route is also discussed.

Thieme Prec:[3] Synthesis:[4][5][6]

References

  1. "Active substance: mequitazine". List of nationally authorised medicinal products. Amsterdam: European Medicines Agency. 15 October 2020. https://www.ema.europa.eu/documents/psusa/mequitazine-list-nationally-authorised-medicinal-products-psusa/00001986/202001_en.pdf. 
  2. (in en) Analogue-based Drug Discovery. John Wiley & Sons. 2006. p. 548. ISBN 9783527607495. https://books.google.com/books?id=FjKfqkaKkAAC&pg=PA548. 
  3. Bondiou JC, Hodac F, Legroux D, US patent 4546185, issued Pharmuka Laboratoires
  4. "Expedient synthesis of mequitazine an antihistaminic drug by palladium catalyzed allylic alkylation of sodium phenothiazinate". Chemical & Pharmaceutical Bulletin 57 (11): 1300–2. November 2009. doi:10.1248/cpb.57.1300. PMID 19881287. 
  5. "An efficient synthesis of mequitazine.". Organic Preparations and Procedures International 31 (3): 319–323. June 1999. doi:10.1080/00304949909458326. 
  6. "Asymmetric synthesis of (+)-mequitazine from quinine". Organic Letters 13 (13): 3549–51. July 2011. doi:10.1021/ol2012567. PMID 21657243. 

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