Title:Antiarrhythmic Mexiletine: A Review on Synthetic Routes to Racemic and Homochiral Mexiletine and its Enantioseparation
Volume: 23
Issue: 29
Author(s): Alessia Catalano, Alessia Carocci
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Antiarrhythmic agents
摘要: Mexiletine is an oral class IB antiarrhythmic agent. Although it was
primarily studied for the treatment of ventricular arrhythmias, it has been
demonstrated to be useful also for the treatment of chronic painful diabetic
neuropathy, neuropathic pain, skeletal muscle channelopathies, and recently
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This review presents a detailed report on the
different synthetic routes to racemic and homochiral mexiletine developed in the
last decades, as well as analytical studies regarding enantioseparation methods
and enantiomeric excess determination. Finally, some analogues of mexiletine
reported in the literature, most of which along with pharmacological studies, have
been mentioned.