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ethosuximide

chemical compound
Class type of: chemical compound Q421567

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
type of chemical entity
Subclass of
chemical compound[4]
Has use
medication[5]
Active ingredient in
Zarontin[15]
Canonical SMILES
CCC1(CC(=O)NC1=O)C[2]
Chemical formula
C₇H₁₁NO₂[3]
Defined daily dose
+1.25[16]
LiverTox likelihood score
LiverTox toxicity likelihood category E*[17]
Mass
+141.078979[6]
Medical condition treated
childhood absence epilepsy, epilepsy[7][8]
Pregnancy category
Australian pregnancy category D, US pregnancy category C[13][14]
Subject has role
enzyme inhibitor, anticonvulsant agent, WHO essential medicines[10][11][12]
World Health Organisation international non-proprietary name
ethosuximide[9]
🏷️ Also known as
en 3-methyl-3-ethylpyrrolidine-2,5-dione en 3-methyl-3-ethylsuccinimide en 3-Methyl-3-ethylsuccinimide en Aethosuximide en alpha-ethyl-alpha-methylsuccinimide en alpha-Ethyl-alpha-methylsuccinimide en alpha-methyl-alpha-ethylsuccinimide en alpha-Methyl-alpha-ethylsuccinimide en Atysmal en CI-366 en CN-10395 en Ethosuximid en ethosuximide en Ethosuximide en Ethosuximidum en Etosuximida en gamma-ethyl-gamma-methyl-succinimide en gamma-Ethyl-gamma-methyl-succinimide en gamma-methyl-gamma-ethyl-succinimide en gamma-Methyl-gamma-ethyl-succinimide
🔖 Identifiers · 41
OpenAlex ID
C2779619453
ATC code
N03AD01
CAS Registry Number
77-67-8
ChEBI ID
4887
ChEMBL ID
CHEMBL696
ChemSpider ID
3175
DSSTOX compound identifier
DTXCID203019
DSSTox substance ID
DTXSID7023019
DeCS ID
5105
DrugBank ID
DB00593
DrugCentral ID
1087
EC number
201-048-7
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ECHA Substance Infocard ID
100.000.954
Electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID
56
Freebase ID
/m/06vvrd
Guide to Pharmacology Ligand ID
7182
HSDB ID
1119
Human Metabolome Database ID
HMDB0014731
InChI
InChI=1S/C7H11NO2/c1-3-7(2)4-5(9)8-6(7)10/h3-4H2,1-2H3,(H,8,9,10)
InChIKey
HAPOVYFOVVWLRS-UHFFFAOYSA-N
KEGG ID
C07505, D00539
LiverTox ID
Ethosuximide
MassBank accession ID
MSBNK-Fac_Eng_Univ_Tokyo-JP007971, MSBNK-Fac_Eng_Univ_Tokyo-JP007978, MSBNK-Fac_Eng_Univ_Tokyo-JP007984
MeSH descriptor ID
D005013
MeSH tree code
D02.478.770.333, D03.383.773.812.852.333
MedlinePlus drug identifier
a682327
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2779619453
NDF-RT ID
N0000146944
NSC number
64013, 758192
PatientsLikeMe treatment ID
ethosuximide
Probes And Drugs ID
PD001366
PubChem CID
3291
Reaxys registry number
117054
RxNorm CUI
4135
SPLASH
splash10-0006-1900000000-1c27ada66f7846f9d155, splash10-0006-2900000000-19e57defe9ded4ed42b4, splash10-08mi-9300000000-3d87944377ee1f85803d
SureChEMBL ID
34212
UMLS CUI
C0015043
UNII
5SEH9X1D1D
UniChem compound ID
379263
WikiProjectMed ID
Ethosuximide
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
03305523-n

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🔗 Connections
Subject has role 3
anticonvulsant agent, WHO essential medicines, enzyme inhibitor
Medical condition treated 2
epilepsy, childhood absence epilepsy
← Drug or therapy used for treatment 2
epilepsy, childhood absence epilepsy
Belongs to 1
World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines
Has use 1
medication
Subclass of 1
chemical compound
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ethosuximide is a type of chemical entity[1].

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  1. 8w ago · Jg.lamp · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subject has role → enzyme inhibitor, anticonvulsant agent, WHO essential medicines
    LiverTox likelihood score → LiverTox toxicity likelihood category E*
    Mass → 141.078979
    Medical condition treated → childhood absence epilepsy, epilepsy
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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