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orthocaine
Sign in to saveOrthocaine is a local anesthetic. Developed in the 1890s, it was found to be of limited use due to its low solubility in water, but it has been used in powdered form to dust onto painful wounds.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C8H9NO3
- Molecular weight
- 167.16 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- methyl 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoate
- SMILES
- COC(=O)C1=CC(=C(C=C1)O)N
- InChIKey
- VNQABZCSYCTZMS-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 1
- Polar surface area
- 72.6 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 2
- H-bond acceptors
- 4
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- parabens
- Mass
- 167.058
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- canonical SMILES
- COC(=O)C1=CC(=C(C=C1)O)N
- chemical formula
- C₈H₉NO₃
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Encyclopedic overview
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Orthocaine is a local anesthetic. Developed in the 1890s, it was found to be of limited use due to its low solubility in water, but it has been used in powdered form to dust onto painful wounds.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “orthocaine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.