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orthocaine
Sign in to saveOrthocaine is a local anesthetic. Developed in the 1890s, it was found to be of limited use due to its low solubility in water, but it has been used in powdered form to dust onto painful wounds.
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Vinony's link graph records 364 inbound references to orthocaine, and connects out to local anesthetic, medication and International Standard Book Number.
It is catalogued under topics including Anilines, Benzoate esters and Chembox image size set.
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Chemical data
- Formula
- C8H9NO3
- Molecular weight
- 167.16 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- methyl 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoate
- SMILES
- COC(=O)C1=CC(=C(C=C1)O)N
- InChIKey
- VNQABZCSYCTZMS-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 1
- Polar surface area
- 72.6 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 2
- H-bond acceptors
- 4
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- parabens
- Mass
- 167.058
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- canonical SMILES
- COC(=O)C1=CC(=C(C=C1)O)N
- chemical formula
- C₈H₉NO₃
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Encyclopedic overview
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Orthocaine is a local anesthetic. Developed in the 1890s, it was found to be of limited use due to its low solubility in water, but it has been used in powdered form to dust onto painful wounds.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “orthocaine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.