Chemical Property of Opicapone
Chemical Property:
- Boiling Point:701.1±70.0 °C (760 mmHg)
- PKA:4.67±0.38(Predicted)
- PSA:150.66000
- Density:1.80±0.1 g/cm3 (20 °C, 760 mmHg)
- LogP:4.59830
- Purity/Quality:
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99% *data from raw suppliers
Opicapone *data from reagent suppliers
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Description
Opicapone is a selective and
reversible catechol O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitor that
was developed by the Portuguese pharmaceutical firm Bial and
sold to Neurocrine Biosciences. The drug was approved by
the USFDA as adjunctive treatment to levodopa (L-Dopa)/
dopa-decarboxylase inhibitor (DDCI) therapy in adults with
Parkinson’s disease (PD) and end-of-dose motor fluctuations
that cannot be stabilized on those combinations. In 14- to 15-
week double-blind multinational trials and in one-year openlabel
extension studies in this patient population, opicapone
was an effective and generally well-tolerated adjunctive therapy
to L-Dopa plus a DDCI and other PD therapies. During the
double-blind phase, adjunctive opicapone (50 mg once daily)
provided significantly greater improvements in motor fluctuations
than placebo, and no new unexpected safety concerns
were identified after treatment with opicapone over a 1.4 year
period. Furthermore, no serious cases of hepatotoxicity were
reported in clinical trials, which represents a significant safety
profile improvement over existing standard-of-care COMT
inhibitors enticapone, tolcapone, and nebicapone.
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Uses
Opicapone, is used for the synthesis of novel nitrocatechol-substituted heterocycles, having the ability to inhibit catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), used for the treatment of Parkinson`s diseases.