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Fluacizine, sold under the brand name Phtorazisin, is a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) of the phenothiazine group which is or was marketed in Russia. Unlike other phenothiazines, fluacizine is not an antipsychotic, and can actually reverse catalepsy and extrapyramidal symptoms induced by antidopaminergic agents like antipsychotics, reserpine, and tetrabenazine as well as potentiate amphetamine-induced stereotypy. It is known to act as a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, antihistamine, and anticholinergic. The drug was developed in the 1960s and was marketed in the 1970s. It is the trifluorome

Chemical data

Formula
C20H21F3N2OS
Molecular weight
394.5 g/mol
IUPAC name
3-(diethylamino)-1-[2-(trifluoromethyl)phenothiazin-10-yl]propan-1-one
SMILES
CCN(CC)CCC(=O)N1C2=CC=CC=C2SC3=C1C=C(C=C3)C(F)(F)F
InChIKey
VHEOUJNDDFHPGJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
XLogP
4.6
Polar surface area
48.9 Ų
H-bond donors
0
H-bond acceptors
6
Formal charge
0

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Drug data · ChEMBL

Max clinical phase
Phase 2
Molecule type
Small molecule

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Wikidata facts

Has part
carbon
Mass
394.133
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chemical formula
C₂₀H₂₁F₃N₂OS
Commons category
Fluacizine
canonical SMILES
CCN(CC)CCC(=O)N1C2=CC=CC=C2SC3=C1C=C(C=C3)C(F)(F)F
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Fluacizine, sold under the brand name Phtorazisin, is a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) of the phenothiazine group which is or was marketed in Russia. Unlike other phenothiazines, fluacizine is not an antipsychotic, and can actually reverse catalepsy and extrapyramidal symptoms induced by antidopaminergic agents like antipsychotics, reserpine, and tetrabenazine as well as potentiate amphetamine-induced stereotypy. It is known to act as a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, antihistamine, and anticholinergic. The drug was developed in the 1960s and was marketed in the 1970s. It is the trifluoromethyl analogue of chloracizine.

==See also== Pipofezine List of Russian drugs

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