Hydrastinine

Hydrastinine
Systematic (IUPAC) name
6-methyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro[1,3]dioxolo[4,5-g]isoquinolin-5-ol
Clinical data
Pregnancy cat.  ?
Legal status  ?
Pharmacokinetic data
Metabolism Hepatic
Excretion Renal
Identifiers
CAS number 6592-85-4
ATC code None
PubChem CID 3638
ChemSpider 3512 Y
UNII V1I0L48X6E Y
Chemical data
Formula C11H13NO3 
Mol. mass 207.226
SMILES eMolecules & PubChem
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Hydrastinine is a semisynthetic alkaloid from the hydrolysis of the alkaloid hydrastine, which was found naturally in small quantities in Hydrastis canadensis L. (Ranunculaceae). Hydrastinine was produced by oxidative splitting of hydrastine hydrochloride with nitric acid in good yield. The drug was patented by Bayer as a haemostatic drug during the 1910s.

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

Hydrastinine has also been found as an impurity or side product in MDMA synthesis performed by low pressure amination of 3,4-methylenedioxyphenylpropan-2-one with methylamine.[2]

References

  1. ^ Roland W. Freudenmann, Florian Öxler, and Sabine Bernschneider-Reif (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. http://www.neurosoup.com/pdf/mdma_history_merck.pdf. 
  2. ^ Verweij, AM (1991). "Contamination of illegal amphetamine. Hydrastatinine as a contaminant in 3,4-(methylenedioxy)methylamphetamine". Archiv fur Kriminologie 188 (1–2): 54–7. PMID 1953248.