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Pancuronium

CAS No.
15500-66-0
Chemical Name:
Pancuronium
Synonyms
diacetate;pancuronium;pavulon;acetic acid [17-acetyloxy-10,13-dimethyl-2,16-bis(1-methyl-1-piperidin-1-iumyl)-2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,17-tetradecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-yl] ester dibromide;na97;orgna97;Miobloc;mioblock;Org-NE 35;thobromide
CBNumber:
CB00130102
Molecular Formula:
C35H60Br2N2O4
Molecular Weight:
732.67
MDL Number:
MFCD00079223
MOL File:
15500-66-0.mol
MSDS File:
SDS
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Pancuronium bromide for system suitability European Pharmacopoeia (EP) Reference Standard Y0000577 15 mg $205
Pancuronium bromide European Pharmacopoeia (EP) Reference Standard P0250000 20 mg $236
Pancuronium bromide British Pharmacopoeia (BP) Reference Standard BP276 25MG $267
Pancuronium Dibromide - CAS 15500-66-0 - Calbiochem 5.05226 10MG $85.1
Pancuronium bromide United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Reference Standard 1494217 500mg $708
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Pancuronium Properties

Melting point 215°
Boiling point ~100°C
Density ~1, mp: 0°C
storage temp. 2-8°C
solubility Very soluble or freely soluble in water, very soluble in methylene chloride, freely soluble in ethanol (96 per cent).
form Off-white solid
color Clear, colorless solution
Odor Odorless
Water Solubility water: 100mM
Merck 13,7077
BRN 4226892
InChIKey NPIJXCQZLFKBMV-LQDGISGANA-L
CAS DataBase Reference 15500-66-0(CAS DataBase Reference)
FDA UNII U9LY9Y75X2
ATC code M03AC01
UNSPSC Code 41116107
NACRES NA.77

Pharmacokinetic data

Protein binding 80-90%
Excreted unchanged in urine 40-60%
Volume of distribution 0.15-0.38(L/kg)
Biological half-life 2 / 4.3-8.2

SAFETY

Risk and Safety Statements

Symbol(GHS)  GHS hazard pictograms
GHS06
Signal word  Danger
Hazard statements  H301
Precautionary statements  P301+P310
Hazard Codes  Xn
Risk Statements  22
RIDADR  UN 2811 6.1/PG 3
WGK Germany  3
RTECS  TN4930000
10-21-33
HazardClass  6.1(b)
PackingGroup  III
HS Code  2933399090
Hazardous Substances Data 15500-66-0(Hazardous Substances Data)
Toxicity LD50 in mice (mg/kg): 0.047 i.v.; 0.152 i.p.; 0.167 s.c.; 21.9 orally; in rats, rabbits: 0.153, 0.016 i.v. (Buckett, 1968)

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Sigma-Aldrich Y0000577 Pancuronium bromide for system suitability European Pharmacopoeia (EP) Reference Standard 15500-66-0 15 mg $205 2025-07-31 Buy
Sigma-Aldrich P0250000 Pancuronium bromide European Pharmacopoeia (EP) Reference Standard 15500-66-0 20 mg $236 2025-07-31 Buy
Sigma-Aldrich BP276 Pancuronium bromide British Pharmacopoeia (BP) Reference Standard 15500-66-0 25MG $267 2025-07-31 Buy
Sigma-Aldrich 5.05226 Pancuronium Dibromide - CAS 15500-66-0 - Calbiochem 15500-66-0 10MG $85.1 2025-07-31 Buy
Sigma-Aldrich 1494217 Pancuronium bromide United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Reference Standard 15500-66-0 500mg $708 2025-07-31 Buy
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Pancuronium Chemical Properties,Uses,Production

Description

Pancuronium bromide, a bisquaternary amine and the first steroid N MBA used clinically, was developed by Savege and Hewitt and marketed in 1964. The intubating dose is 0.1mgkg–1, which takes 3-4min to reach its maximum effect. The clinical duration of action of the drug is long, especially in the presence of potent inhalational agents or renal dysfunction, as 60% of a dose of the drug is excreted unchanged through the kidneys. I t is also deacetylated in the liver; some of the metabolites have neuromuscular blocking properties.
Pancuronium does not stimulate histamine release; however, it has direct vagolytic and sympathomimetic effects which may cause tachycardia and hypertension. It slightly inhibits plasma cholinesterase and therefore potentiates any drug metabolised by this enzyme, such as suxamethonium and mivacurium.

Chemical Properties

White or off-white crystalline or crystalline powder, faintly odorous, bitter taste. Hygroscopic. 1g dissolves in 30 parts chloroform, 1 part water (20°C). Soluble in water, ethanol, methanol, chloroform or dichloromethane; insoluble in diethyl ether. Acute toxicity LD₅₀ in mice (mg/kg): 0.047 intravenous injection, 0.152 intraperitoneal injection, 0.167 subcutaneous injection, 21.9 oral administration. Acute toxicity LD₅₀ in rats and rabbits (mg/kg): 0.153, 0.016 intravenous injection.

Originator

Pavulon,Organon-Teknika ,UK,1968

Uses

Pancuronium is a steroid compound that does not possess hormonal activity. It is used in anesthesiology as a myorelaxant, causing prolonged muscle relaxation during surgical interventions of the thoracic and abdominal cavities, in proctology, ophthalmology, orthopedic practice, and in heart surgeries. A synonym of this drug is pavulon.

Uses

Pancuronium Bromide has been used as an analgesic in various experiments.

Uses

Pancuronium bromide is a nondepolarizing muscle relaxant approved to induce skeletal muscle relaxation during anesthesia and to facilitate the management of patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. The use of pancuronium bromide during surgery led to the appreciation that it has advantages over drugs previously used for muscle relaxation. Patients in whom pancuronium bromide is of value are (1) hypoxemic patients resisting mechanical ventilation and so cardiovascularly unstable that use of sedatives is precluded, (2) patients with bronchospasm unresponsive to conventional therapy, (3) patients with severe tetanus or poisoning where muscle spasm prohibits adequate ventilation, (4) patients with status epilepticus unable to maintain their own ventilation, (5) shivering patients in whom metabolic demands for oxygen should be reduced, and (6) patients requiring tracheal intubation in whom succinylcholine administration is contraindicated. Without concomitant sedation, use of pancuronium bromide is associated with psychological risks. Other risks are undetected ventilator disconnection, tachyarrythmias, prolonged paralysis and drug interactions.

Definition

ChEBI: A bromide salt consisting of two bromide ions and one pancuronium dication.

Manufacturing Process

A solution of 2α,3α,16α,17α-diepoxy-17β-acetoxy-5α-androstane (25 grams), prepared from 3,17-diacetoxy-5α-androstane-2,16-diene (Chem. Abs. 1960, 54, 8908) by treatment with m-chlor-perbenzoic acid, in piperidine (120 ml) and water (40 ml) was boiled under reflux for 5 days, the solution was concentrated and the product precipitated by the addition of water. The solid was collected, dissolved in dilute hydrochloric acid, filtered to give a clear solution and precipitated by the addition of sodium hydroxide solution. Crystallization from acetone gave 2β,16β-bis-piperidino-5α-androstan-3α-ol17-one (18.9 grams), MP 179-185°C.
A solution of sodium borohydride (8 grams) in water (16 ml) was added to a stirred solution of 2β,16β-bis-piperidino-5α-androstan-3α-ol-17-one (17 grams) in tetrahydrofuran (70 ml) and methanol (30 ml) and the solution stirred at room temperature for 16 hours. The product was precipitated by the addition of water, filtered off, dried, and crystallized from acetone to give the diol (14.9 grams).
A solution of the piperidino-diol (9 grams) in acetic anhydride (18 ml) was heated at 90°C for 1 hour, the solution cooled, excess acetic anhydride destroyed by the careful addition of water, and the resulting solution carefully made alkaline with 2 N caustic soda solution to precipitate a solid product. The solid was dried, extracted with n-hexane and the solution filtered free of insoluble material before percolation down a column (4 x 1'' diameter) of alumina. Elution with n-hexane gave a fraction (4.2 grams) which was crystallized twice from ether to give the diacetate, MP 176°-180°C.
Methyl bromide (17 grams) was added to a solution of the bispiperidinodiacetate (4 grams) in methylene chloride (10 ml) and the resulting solution allowed to stand at room temperature for 4 days. The solution was evaporated to dryness, the residue triturated with ether, and filtered to give the bis-methobromide (5.2 grams), MP 206°C. Recrystallization from acetonemethylene chloride gave material MP 214°-217°C.

brand name

Pavulon (Organon).

Therapeutic Function

Muscle relaxant

Biological Functions

Pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) is a synthetic bisquaternary agent containing a steroid nucleus (amino steroid), as denoted by the -curonium suffix. It is five times as potent as d-tubocurarine. Unlike d-tubocurarine, it does not release histamine or block ganglionic transmission. Like d-tubocurarine, it has a moderately long onset (2.9 minutes) and duration of action (110 minutes). Pancuronium and its metabolite are eliminated in the urine.

General Description

Although pancuronium bromide,2 ,16 -dipiperidino-5 -androstane-3 ,17 -diol diacetatedimethobromide (Pavulon), is a synthetic product, it isbased on the naturally occurring alkaloid malouetine, found inarrow poisons used by primitive Africans. Pancuronium bromideacts on the nicotinic receptor and in the ion channel,inhibiting normal ion fluxes.
This blocking agent is soluble in water and is marketed inconcentrations of 1 or 2 mg/mL for intravenous administration.It is a typical nondepolarizing blocker, with a potencyapproximately 5 times that of (+)-tubocurarine chloride anda duration of action approximately equal to the latter. Studiesindicate that it has little or no histamine-releasing potential organglion-blocking activity and that it has little effect on thecirculatory system, except for causing a slight rise in thepulse rate. As one might expect, ACh, anticholinesterases,and potassium ion competitively antagonize it, whereas itsaction is increased by inhalation anesthetics such as ether,halothane, enflurane, and methoxyflurane. The latter enhancementin activity is especially important to the anesthetistbecause the drug is frequently administered as anadjunct to the anesthetic procedure to relax the skeletal muscle.Perhaps the most frequent adverse reaction to this agentis occasional prolongation of the neuromuscular block beyondthe usual time course, a situation that can usually becontrolled with neostigmine or by manual or mechanical ventilation, since respiratory difficulty is a prominent manifestationof the prolonged blocking action.

Biological Activity

Nicotine (neuromuscular) antagonist. Skeletal muscle relaxant.

Biochem/physiol Actions

Aminosteroidal neuromuscular blocking agent; skeletal muscle relaxant

Mechanism of action

Pancuronium bromide is a long-acting bisquaternary aminosteroid, non-depolarising neuromuscular blocking drug (NMBD). It competitively inhibits nicotinic acetylcholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction by blocking acetylcholine binding. Like other non-depolarising NMBDs, Pancuronium bromide is a competitive inhibitor of nicotinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptor post-function; under normal conditions, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor post-function in skeletal muscle is a ligand-gated ion channel, which binds to ACh and allows the passage of sodium ions, thereby inducing a depolarisation of the cell membrane leading to skeletal muscle contraction. The nicotinic ACh receptor has five subunits, and the α-subunit is the binding site for ACh and NMBD.Pancuronium bromide contains an acetylcholine-like molecule that facilitates binding to the α-subunit. Binding of pancuronium to at least one of the alpha subunits results in a conformational change in the ACh receptor, which keeps the ion channel closed, preventing ion passage and depolarisation. In addition, pancuronium bromide is a larger molecule compared to acetylcholine and may therefore physically block ion channels, preventing ion passage; this acetylcholine receptor blocking mechanism becomes more important as the number of molecules increases. In addition, it has a slight vagal function, resulting in increased heart rate but no ganglionic paralysing (i.e., ganglion-blocking) activity.

Pharmacology

Pancuronium bromide, a bisquaternary amine and the first steroid NMBA used clinically, was developed by Savege and Hewi and marketed in 1964. The intubating dose is 0.1 mg kg–1, which takes 3–4min to reach its maximum effect. The clinical duration of action of the drug is long, especially in the presence of potent inhalational agents or renal dysfunction, as 60% of a dose of the drug is excreted unchanged through the kidneys. I t is also deacetylated in the liver; some of the metabolites have neuromuscular blocking properties.
Pancuronium does not stimulate histamine release; however, it has direct vagolytic and sympathomimetic effects which may cause tachycardia and hypertension. It slightly inhibits plasma cholinesterase and therefore potentiates any drug metabolised by this enzyme, such as suxamethonium and mivacurium.

Clinical Use

As indicated, the principal use of pancuronium bromideis as an adjunct to anesthesia, to induce relaxation of skeletalmuscle, but it is also used to facilitate the managementof patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. Only experiencedclinicians equipped with facilities for applyingartificial respiration should administer it, and the dosageshould be adjusted and controlled carefully.

Side effects

Common side effects of Pancuronium bromide include increased salivation, skeletal muscle weakness, drooling, rash, bronchospasm, flushing, redness, low blood pressure, high blood pressure, and rapid heartbeat.

Safety Profile

A human poison by intravenous route. Poison experimentally by intravenous, subcutaneous, and intraperitoneal routes. Human systemic effects by intravenous route: chronic pulmonary edema, hemorrhage. Experimental reproductive effects. When heated to decom

Safety Profile

A deadly poison by ingestion, subcutaneous, intravenous, and intraperitoneal routes. Experimental reproductive effects. When heated to decomposition it emits toxic fumes of NOx and Brí.

Synthesis

Pancuronium, 1,1-(3|á,17|?-diacetoxy-5|á-androstan-2|?,16|?-ylene)-bis- (1-methylpiperidinium) dibromide (15.1.8), is synthesized from 3,17-bis-(acetoxy)-2,16- 5|á-androstane. Oxidation with 3-chloroperbenzoic acid gives the bis-epoxy compound (15.1.5), the reaction of which with piperidine and subsequent hydrolysis gives an aminoketone (15.1.6). The keto group of the resulting compound (15.1.6) is reduced by sodium borohydride to hydroxyl group, giving the bis-aminoalcohol (15.1.7), subsequent acetylation of which by acetic anhydride and alkylation of both nitrogen atoms by methylbromide give the desired pancuronium (15.1.8).

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Veterinary Drugs and Treatments

Pancuronium is indicated as an adjunct to general anesthesia to produce muscle relaxation during surgical procedures or m

Drug interactions

Potentially hazardous interactions with other drugs
Anaesthetics: enhanced muscle relaxant effect.
Anti-arrhythmics: procainamide enhances muscle relaxant effect.
Antibacterials: effect enhanced by aminoglycosides, clindamycin, polymyxins and piperacillin.
Antiepileptics: muscle relaxant effects antagonised by carbamazepine; effects reduced by long-term use of fosphenytoin and phenytoin but might be increased by acute use.
Botulinum toxin: neuromuscular block enhanced (risk of toxicity).

Metabolism

A small proportion of pancuronium is metabolised in the liver to metabolites with weak neuromuscular blocking activity.
It is largely excreted in urine as unchanged drug and metabolites; a small amount is excreted in bile.

Purification Methods

The bromide forms odourless crystals with a bitter taste which are purified through acid-washed Al2O3 and eluted with isoPrOH/EtOAc (3:1) to remove impurities (e.g. the monomethobromide) and eluted with isoPrOH to give the pure dibromide which is recrystallised from CH2Cl2/Me2CO or isoPrOH/Me2CO. It is soluble in H2O (10%) and CHCl3 (3.3%) at 20o. It is a non-depolarising muscle relaxant. [Buckett et al. J Med Chem 16 1116 1973.]

References

[1] Patent: WO2016/9442, 2016, A1. Location in patent: Page/Page column 14

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