ISSN:
0018-019X
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Organic Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Reaction of the tricyclic psychotropic drug opipramol (1) with an excess of HNO2 affords a product mixture mutagenic for Salmonella typhimurium. The main product is a tetracyclic furoxan 2 (yield ca. 80%), resulting from nitrosation at C(10) and C(11) of 1. Compound 2 is not mutagenic. The essential mutagen is a nitroarene 3 formed via contraction of the central ring of 1, and nitrosation at C(2). Its yield is extremely low (〈0.1%). Nitroarenes have previously not been encountered as mutagenic products of the interaction of drugs with nitrite.
Additional Material:
1 Tab.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hlca.19870700509
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