Etorphine (M99) is a semi-synthetic opioid possessing an analgesic potency approximately 1000–3000 times that of morphine. It was first prepared in 1960 from oripavine which does not generally occur in opium poppy extract but rather in poppy straw and in the related plants Papaver orientale and Papaver bracteatum. It was later reproduced in 1963 by a research group at MacFarlan Smith in Gorgie Edinburgh led by Professor Kenneth Bentley.
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ATC prefix
N02
ATC suffix
AE90
CAS number
14521-96-1
DrugBank
DB01497
FDA UNII code
42M2Y6NU9O
IUPAC name
614-endoetheno – 7 a (1-(R)-hydroxy-1 methylbutyl)-tetrahydro-nororipavine
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