Femoxetine

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Femoxetine
Clinical data
Routes of
administration		Oral
ATC code
  • None
Legal status
Legal status
  • In general: uncontrolled
Pharmacokinetic data
Elimination half-life7–27 hours
Identifiers
  • (3R,4S)-3-[(4-methoxyphenoxy)methyl]-1-methyl-4-phenyl-piperidine
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Femoxetine (

INN; tentative brand name Malexil; developmental code name FG-4963) is a drug related to paroxetine that was being developed as an antidepressant by Danish pharmaceutical company Ferrosan in 1975 before acquisition of the company by Novo Nordisk. It acts as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). Development was halted to focus attention on paroxetine
instead, as femoxetine could not be administered as a daily pill.

Both femoxetine and paroxetine were invented in the 1970s. Jørgen Anders Christensen's name is on the patents

paper.[3]

After Ferrosan's acquisition, femoxetine died from neglect.[4]

In a separate patent, Ferrosan stated that Femoxetine could be used as an appetite suppressant,[5] using ten times the dosage than for paroxetine, 300 - 400mg daily.

Femoxetine has the same stereochemical properties as

Nocaine, another agent with a similar structure claimed to have been synthesized using arecoline as the starting alkaloid.[citation needed
]

Analogs

  1. Addition of the para-fluoro atom results in a different compound that is a hybrid of femoxetine & paroxetine named FG 7080,[6] which has a separate patent.[7] According to the patent tables, incorporation of the fluorine atom potentiated the 5-HT affinity considerably.
  2. Pfizer made some similar analogs[8] E.g. a Viloxazine type of catechol ether is used, but 4-phenyl instead of based on a morpholine ring.
  3. NNC-63-0780.
    ORL1 instead of SERT
    .
  • NNC 09-0026

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. patent 3,912,743
  2. ^ U.S. patent 4,007,196
  3. PMID 1149822
    .
  4. ISBN 9780814736692
    . Jørgen Buus Lassen femoxetine.
  5. ^ U.S. patent 4,442,113
  6. ^ "(3S,4R)-4-(4-Fluorophenyl)-3-[(4-methoxyphenoxy)methyl]piperidine". PubChem. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  7. ^ U.S. patent 4,585,777
  8. ^ U.S. patent 20,070,142,389
  9. S2CID 94720416
    .
  10. ^ "CID:9862655". PubChem. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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