Photoinduced Aromatization of Asymmetrically Substituted 1,4-Dihydropyridine Derivative Drug Cilnidipine
Author(s) -
Waseem Ahmad
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of photochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2356-7090
pISSN - 2314-7148
DOI - 10.1155/2014/176989
Subject(s) - aromatization , dihydropyridine , chemistry , pyridine , chloroform , derivative (finance) , photochemistry , medicinal chemistry , organic chemistry , calcium , catalysis , financial economics , economics
The antihypertensive drug Cilnidipine (1) is photolabile under UV-A light. Irradiation of a chloroform solution of Cilnidipine under aerobic and anaerobic conditions produces a common photoproduct which was isolated as 2-methoxyethyl-3-phenyl-2-propenyl pyridine dihydro-2,6-dimethyl-4-(3-nitrophenyl) pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate (2). The formation of products was explained by photochemical aromatization of Cilnidipine.
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