Normorphine

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Normorphine
Systematic (IUPAC) name
3,6α-Dihydroxy-4,5α-epoxy-7,8-didehydromorphinan
Clinical data
Legal status Prohibited (S9) (AU) Schedule I (US)
Identifiers
CAS number 466-97-7 YesY
ATC code None
PubChem CID 430245
IUPHAR ligand 1630
UNII XUI1Y24IMI N
Synonyms Normorphine
Chemical data
Formula C16H17NO3 
Mol. mass 271.311 g/mol
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Normorphine is an opiate analogue, the N-demethylated derivative of morphine, that was first described in the 1950s[1] when a large group of N-substituted morphine analogues were characterized for activity.

Normorphine has relatively little opioid activity in its own right,[2][3] but is a useful intermediate which can be used to produce both opioid antagonists such as nalorphine, and also potent opioid agonists such as N-phenethylnormorphine.[4] It is also produced as a major metabolite of morphine,[5] with its formation from morphine catalysed by the liver enzymes CYP3A4 and CYP2C8.[6]

References

  1. Journal of the American Chemistry Society 75,4963 (1953)
  2. Fraser HF, Wikler A, Van Horn GD, Eisenman AJ, Isbell H. Human pharmacology and addiction liability of normorphine. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 1958 Mar;122(3):359-69. PMID 13539761
  3. Lasagna L, De Kornfeld TJ. Analgesic potency of normorphine in patients with postoperative pain. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 1958 Nov;124(3):260-3. PMID 13588540
  4. Daniel Lednicer. Central Analgetics. (1982), p146. ISBN 0-471-08314-3
  5. Yeh SY. Urinary excretion of morphine and its metabolites in morphine-dependent subjects. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 1975 Jan;192(1):201-10. PMID 235634
  6. Projean D, Morin PE, Tu TM, Ducharme J. Identification of CYP3A4 and CYP2C8 as the major cytochrome P450 s responsible for morphine N-demethylation in human liver microsomes. Xenobiotica. 2003 Aug;33(8):841-54. PMID 12936704
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