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cytisine

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Also known as cytisin, (-)-cytisine, baptitoxine, sophorine, laburnin, baptitoxin, sophorin, (1R,5S)-1,2,3,4,5,6-Hexahydro-1,5-methano-8H-pyrido[1,2a][1,5]diazocin-8-one

Cytisine, also known as baptitoxine, cytisinicline, or sophorine, is an alkaloid that occurs naturally in several plant genera, such as Laburnum and Cytisus of the family Fabaceae. It has been used medically to help with smoking cessation. It has been found effective in several randomized clinical trials, including in the United States and New Zealand, and is being investigated in additional trials in the United States and a non-inferiority trial in Australia in which it is being compared head-to-head with the smoking cessation aid varenicline (sold in the United States as Chantix). It has als

Key facts

Drug.image
(-)-Cytisine.svg
Drug.image_class
skin-invert-image
Drug.image2
Cytisine 3D ball.png
Drug.image_class2
bg-transparent
Drug.tradename
TBX-Free
Drug.DailyMedID
Cytisine
Drug.routes_of_administration
By mouth
Drug.ATC_prefix
N07
Drug.ATC_suffix
BA04
Drug.CAS_number
485-35-8
Drug.PubChem
10235
Drug.IUPHAR_ligand
5347
Drug.DrugBank
DB09028
Drug.ChemSpiderID
9818
Drug.UNII
53S5U404NU
Drug.ChEBI
4055
Drug.ChEMBL
497939
Drug.synonyms
Cytisine; baptitoxine; sophorine

via Wikipedia infobox

Chemical data

Formula
C11H14N2O
Molecular weight
190.24 g/mol
IUPAC name
(1R,9S)-7,11-diazatricyclo[7.3.1.02,7]trideca-2,4-dien-6-one
SMILES
C1[C@H]2CNC[C@@H]1C3=CC=CC(=O)N3C2
InChIKey
ANJTVLIZGCUXLD-DTWKUNHWSA-N
XLogP
0.2
Polar surface area
32.3 Ų
H-bond donors
1
H-bond acceptors
2
Formal charge
0

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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Uses
  • Smoking cessation
  • Recreational
  • Reagent for organic chemistry
  • Sources
  • Toxicity
  • References
  • External links

Cytisine, also known as baptitoxine, cytisinicline, or sophorine, is an alkaloid that occurs naturally in several plant genera, such as Laburnum and Cytisus of the family Fabaceae. It has been used medically to help with smoking cessation. It has been found effective in several randomized clinical trials, including in the United States and New Zealand, and is being investigated in additional trials in the United States and a non-inferiority trial in Australia in which it is being compared head-to-head with the smoking cessation aid varenicline (sold in the United States as Chantix). It has also been used entheogenically via mescalbeans by some Native American groups, historically in the Rio Grande Valley predating even peyote.

Cytisine is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cytisine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.