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chloroprocaine
Sign in to saveAlso known as chloroprocaine hydrochloride, Nesacaine®, chloroprocain, 4-amino-2-chlorobenzoic acid 2-(diethylamino)ethyl ester, 2-chloroprocaine, Chloroprocain, Cloroprocaina
Chloroprocaine, sold under the brand name Nesacaine among others is a local anesthetic given by injection. It is used as the hydrochloride salt. Chloroprocaine is a local anesthetic.
Key facts
- Drug.Verifiedfields
- changed
- Drug.verifiedrevid
- 460032727
- Drug.image
- Chloroprocaine.svg
- Drug.image_class
- skin-invert-image
- Drug.width
- 250
- Drug.tradename
- Nesacaine, others
- Drug.DailyMedID
- Chloroprocaine
- Drug.routes_of_administration
- Intrathecal, eye drop
- Drug.class
- Local anesthetic
- Drug.ATC_prefix
- N01
- Drug.ATC_suffix
- BA04
- Drug.legal_CA
- Rx-only
- Drug.legal_US
- Rx-only
- Drug.legal_status
- Rx-only
- Drug.CAS_number
- 133-16-4
- Drug.CAS_number2
- 3858-89-7
- Drug.PubChem
- 8612
- Drug.PubChem2
- 441348
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Chemical data
- Formula
- C13H19ClN2O2
- Molecular weight
- 270.75 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 2-(diethylamino)ethyl 4-amino-2-chlorobenzoate
- SMILES
- CCN(CC)CCOC(=O)C1=C(C=C(C=C1)N)Cl
- InChIKey
- VDANGULDQQJODZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 2.9
- Polar surface area
- 55.6 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 1
- H-bond acceptors
- 4
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Max clinical phase
- Approved
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
- First approval
- 1955
- Admin. routes
- parenteral, topical
- Indications
- pain, pregnancy, cataract
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Research
588 papers- Chloroprocaine.2006
- Chloroprocaine.2026
- PMID 376432582023
- Chloroprocaine.Anaesthesia · 1979
- Chloroprocaine for epidural anesthesia in infants and children.Paediatric anaesthesia · 2017
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- ester
- Mass
- 270.114
- Has use
- medication
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- chemical formula
- C₁₃H₁₉ClN₂O₂
- Commons category
- Chloroprocaine
- medical condition treated
- pain
- canonical SMILES
- CCN(CC)CCOC(=O)C1=C(C=C(C=C1)N)Cl
- World Health Organisation international non-proprietary name
- chloroprocaine
- subject has role
- local anesthetic
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Medical uses
- Subarachnoid block
- Obstetrics
- Synthesis
- References
Chloroprocaine, sold under the brand name Nesacaine among others is a local anesthetic given by injection. It is used as the hydrochloride salt. Chloroprocaine is a local anesthetic.
==Medical uses== Chloroprocaine (Nesacaine) is indicated for the production of local anesthesia by infiltration and peripheral nerve block; and for the production of local anesthesia by infiltration, peripheral and central nerve block, including lumbar and caudal epidural blocks.
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