Raltitrexed

Raltitrexed
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administration		Intravenous
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Legal status
  • UK: POM (Prescription only)
  • US: Not available
Identifiers
  • N-[(5-{methyl[(2-methyl-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinazolin-6-yl)methyl]amino}-2-thienyl)carbonyl]-L-glutamic acid
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PDB ligand
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ECHA InfoCard100.180.242 Edit this at Wikidata
Chemical and physical data
FormulaC21H22N4O6S
Molar mass458.49 g·mol−1
3D model (JSmol)
  • O=C(c3sc(N(C)Cc2cc1C(=O)\N=C(/Nc1cc2)C)cc3)N[C@H](C(=O)O)CCC(=O)O
  • InChI=1S/C21H22N4O6S/c1-11-22-14-4-3-12(9-13(14)19(28)23-11)10-25(2)17-7-6-16(32-17)20(29)24-15(21(30)31)5-8-18(26)27/h3-4,6-7,9,15H,5,8,10H2,1-2H3,(H,24,29)(H,26,27)(H,30,31)(H,22,23,28)/t15-/m0/s1 checkY
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Raltitrexed (Thaltitrexed, Tomudex, TDX, ZD 1694) is an antimetabolite drug used in cancer chemotherapy. It is an inhibitor of thymidylate synthase, and is manufactured by AstraZeneca.[1]

  1. ^ Widemann BC, Balis FM, Godwin KS, McCully C, Adamson PC (1999). "The plasma pharmacokinetics and cerebrospinal fluid penetration of the thymidylate synthase inhibitor raltitrexed (Tomudex) in a nonhuman primate model". Cancer Chemother. Pharmacol. 44 (6): 439–43. doi:10.1007/s002800051116. PMID 10550563. S2CID 9006510.