| Originator | Tenuate,Merrell National ,US,1959 |
| Uses | appetite depressant;stimulating secretion of norepinephrine |
| Definition | ChEBI: An aromatic ketone that is propiophenone in which one of the hydrogens alpha- to the carbonyl is substituted by a diethylamino group. A central stimulant and indirect-acting sympathomimetic, it is an appetite depressant and is used as the
hydrochloride as an anoretic in the short term management of obesity. |
| Manufacturing Process | 1,145 g of α-bromopropiophenone and 850 g of diethylamine are combined
under stirring and heated on a water bath to boiling. The precipitate is filtered
off under suction and washed with benzol. The filtrate is shaken up with
aqueous hydrogen chloride, the aqueous solution made alkaline and etherified.
The solution freed of the ether is fractionated. The boiling point (6 mm) is
140°C and the yield 800 g. The base is dissolved in acetic ester and
precipitated with isopropanolic hydrogen chloride. After suction filtration and
washing with ether the yield is found to be 750 g (80%)and the melting point
168°C. |
| Brand name | Adiposan;Adipyn;Alipid;Amfepromone;Apisate;Bonumin;Brenalalit;Brendalit;Controlgras;D.i.p.n;Delgamer;Deramix;Dietec;Dietil retard;Dietil-retard;Lineal-plus;Lineal-rivo;Lineal-valeas;Linea-valeas;Lipomin;Liposlim;Menutil;Moderatan diffucap;Nobensin-75;Nobensine;Nobesine-25;Nulobes;Perfamone;Prefamone;Redicres;Regenon retard;Regibon;Sinapet;Slim-plus;Super emegrin;T-712;Tenuate dospan;Tenucap. |
| Therapeutic Function | Anorexic |
| World Health Organization (WHO) | Amfepramone, a phenethylamine derivative introduced in 1957, is
controlled under Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
It remains available in many other countries with highly evolved drug regulatory
authorities as an aid to weight reduction.(Reference: (UNCPS4) United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances (IV),
, , 1971) |