
Bretylium Tosylate
Bretylium tosylate is the tosylate salt of bretylium. It blocks noradrenaline release from the peripheral sympathetic nervous system, and is used in emergency medicine, cardiology, and other specialties for the acute management of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. It has a role as an antihypertensive agent, an adrenergic antagonist and an anti-arrhythmia drug. It is a quaternary ammonium salt and an organosulfonate salt. It contains a bretylium. — ChEBI
- IUPAC name
- (2-bromophenyl)methyl-ethyl-dimethylazanium;4-methylbenzenesulfonate
- Molecular formula
- C18H24BrNO3S
- Molecular weight
- 414.4 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 413.06603 Da
- Topological polar surface area
- 65.6 Ų
- Hydrogen-bond donors
- 0
- Hydrogen-bond acceptors
- 3
- Covalent units
- 2
- Defined stereocentres
- 0
Also known as
16 more reported names
External database identifiers
- ChEBI:CHEBI:3173
- ChEMBL:CHEMBL1095292
- EPA DTXSID:DTXSID1022685
- PubMed:21599003
- PubMed:15226788
- PubMed:9085344
- PubMed:7447102
- PubMed:7235792
- PubMed:6858846
- PubMed:6600915
- PubMed:5417842
- PubMed:4911756
- PubMed:4553611
- PubMed:4079442
- PubMed:3795968
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