amisulpride   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 963

Synonyms: (±)-amisulpride | Barhemsys®
Approved drug
amisulpride is an approved drug
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: The approved drug amisulpride is a racemic mixture of (+)-amisulpride and (-)-amisulpride. The structure shown here does not specify stereochemistry and represents the mixture. The links to external resources in the table above all match the INN-assigned compound amisulpride without stereochemistry specified. Alternative stereoisomers are represented by CID 5746246 and CID 3055076.

The INN-assigned compound sultopride has a similar but distinct structure to amisulpride; however the nomenclature for these two compounds is sometimes used interchangeably on other resources.
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2D Structure
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2D Structure

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Physico-chemical Properties
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Physico-chemical Properties

Calculated molecular properties are available for small molecules and natural products (not peptides). Properties were generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/). All properties were selected to enable the prediction of the Lipinski Rule-of-Five profile or ‘druglikeness’ for each ligand. For more info on each category see the help pages.

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Hydrogen bond acceptors 6
Hydrogen bond donors 2
Rotatable bonds 8
Topological polar surface area 110.11
Molecular weight 369.17
XLogP 2.08
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0

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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey

SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) A specification for unambiguously describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings. Canonical SMILES specify a unique representation of the 2D structure without chiral or isotopic specifications. Isomeric SMILES include chiral specification and isotopes.

Standard InChI (IUPAC International Chemical Identifier) and InChIKey InChI is a non-proprietary, standard, textual identifier for chemical substances designed to facilitate linking of information and database searching. An InChIKey is a simplified version of a full InChI, designed for easier web searching.

Generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/)

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Canonical SMILES CCN1CCCC1CNC(=O)c1cc(c(cc1OC)N)S(=O)(=O)CC
Isomeric SMILES CCN1CCCC1CNC(=O)c1cc(c(cc1OC)N)S(=O)(=O)CC
InChI InChI=1S/C17H27N3O4S/c1-4-20-8-6-7-12(20)11-19-17(21)13-9-16(25(22,23)5-2)14(18)10-15(13)24-3/h9-10,12H,4-8,11,18H2,1-3H3,(H,19,21)
InChI Key NTJOBXMMWNYJFB-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Summary of Clinical Use Click here for help
This drug is an atypical antipsychotic used to treat psychosis in schizophrenia and manic episodes of bipolar disorder. However, there is no information regarding approval for use of this drug for these indications on the US FDA or European Medicines Agency websites. Other national approval agencies may have granted marketing authorisation for use in these conditions.

In February 2020 the FDA granted approval for amisulpride injection (Barhemsys) to be used to help prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting.
Amisulpride causes dose- and concentration-dependent QT prolongation, so caution is advised for patients with pre-existing medical conditions or who are taking other medications, that are known to prolong the QT interval. Avoid use of amisulpride in patients with congenital long QT syndrome or who are taking droperidol.
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Amisulpride is primarily an antagonist of the dopamine D2 and D3 receptors.