Acetylpropionylmorphine

Acetylpropionylmorphine

Systematic (IUPAC) name
3-acetyl-6-propionyl-(5α,6α)-7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methylmorphinan
Clinical data
Pregnancy cat.	?
Legal status	Illegal under UN drug conventions as "ester of morphine"
Identifiers
CAS number	66640-99-1 Y
ATC code	?
ChemSpider	26286893 Y
Chemical data
Formula	C22H25NO5
Mol. mass	383.437 g/mol
SMILES	eMolecules & PubChem
InChI InChI=1S/C22H25NO5/c1-4-18(25)27-17-8-6-14-15-11-13-5-7-16(26-12(2)24)20-19(13)22(14,21(17)28-20)9-10-23(15)3/h5-8,14-15,17,21H,4,9-11H2,1-3H3/t14-,15+,17-,21-,22-/m0/s1 Y Key:JDTRGWXTYWXUHP-CLTUZACYSA-N Y
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Acetylpropionylmorphine is an opiate analogue that is a derivative of morphine. It was developed in the early 1900s after first being synthesised in Great Britain in 1875 but shelved along with heroin and various other esters of morphine, but was never used medically, instead being widely sold as one of the first "designer drugs" for around five years following the introduction of the first international restrictions on the sale of heroin in 1925.^[1] It is described as being virtually identical to heroin and morphine in its effects, and consequently was itself banned internationally in 1930 by the Health Committee of the League of Nations, in order to prevent its sale as an unscheduled alternative to heroin.^[2]

See also

• Dibenzoylmorphine
• Dipropanoylmorphine

References

1. ^ Dominic Streatfeild. Cocaine A Definitive History. p169. Virgin Books 2002. ISBN 0-7535-0627-0
2. ^ Esters of Morphine. UNODC Bulletin on Narcotics, 1953; Issue 2:36-38.

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