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Hydrastinine

Hydrastinine
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Pharmacokinetic data
MetabolismHepatic
ExcretionRenal
Identifiers
  • 6-Methyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro[1,3]dioxolo[4,5-g]isoquinolin-5-ol
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ECHA InfoCard100.026.849 Edit this at Wikidata
Chemical and physical data
FormulaC11H13NO3
Molar mass207.229 g·mol−1
3D model (JSmol)
  • O1c2c(OC1)cc3c(c2)CCN(C3O)C
  • InChI=1S/C11H13NO3/c1-12-3-2-7-4-9-10(15-6-14-9)5-8(7)11(12)13/h4-5,11,13H,2-3,6H2,1H3 checkY
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Hydrastinine is a semisynthetic tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloid made via the nitric acid induced hydrolysis of the alkaloid hydrastine hydrochloride, which is extracted from Hydrastis canadensis L. (Ranunculaceae). The drug was patented by Bayer as a haemostatic drug during the 1910s.

The first known synthesis of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) was actually an intermediate in the synthesis of the methylated analogue of hydrastinine, methylhydrastinine. It was only reviewed for its activity many years after its original synthesis.[1]

Hydrastinine has also been found as a major unwanted side product in MDMA made by the reductive amination of 3,4-methylenedioxyphenylpropan-2-one and methylamine.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ Freudenmann RW, Oxler F, Bernschneider-Reif S (September 2006). "The origin of MDMA (ecstasy) revisited: the true story reconstructed from the original documents". Addiction. 101 (9): 1241–5. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01511.x. PMID 16911722.
  2. ^ Verweij AM (1991). "[Contamination of illegal amphetamine. Hydrastatinine as a contaminant in 3,4-(methylenedioxy)methylamphetamine]". Archiv für Kriminologie. 188 (1–2): 54–7. PMID 1953248.