Apricitabine

Apricitabine
Clinical data
Routes of
administration
Oral
ATC code
  • none
Legal status
Legal status
  • Investigational
Pharmacokinetic data
Bioavailability65 to 80%
Protein binding< 4%
MetabolismTo apricitabine triphosphate
Elimination half-life6 to 7 hours (triphosphate)
ExcretionRenal
Identifiers
  • 4-amino-1-[(2R,4R)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3- oxathiolan-4-yl]pyrimidin-2(1H)-one
CAS Number
PubChem CID
ChemSpider
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ChEMBL
CompTox Dashboard (EPA)
Chemical and physical data
FormulaC8H11N3O3S
Molar mass229.25 g·mol−1
3D model (JSmol)
  • O=C1/N=C(/N)\C=C/N1[C@@H]2S[C@@H](OC2)CO
  • InChI=1S/C8H11N3O3S/c9-5-1-2-11(8(13)10-5)6-4-14-7(3-12)15-6/h1-2,6-7,12H,3-4H2,(H2,9,10,13)/t6-,7-/m1/s1 checkY
  • Key:RYMCFYKJDVMSIR-RNFRBKRXSA-N checkY
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Apricitabine (INN, codenamed AVX754 and SPD754, sometimes abbreviated to ATC) is an experimental nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) against HIV. It is structurally related to lamivudine and emtricitabine, and, like these, is an analogue of cytidine.