Identification of Phenazocine, a Potent New Analgesic
Abstract
THE synthesis of a new analgesic of remarkable potency, phenazocine (2-hydroxy-5,9-dimethyl-2-phenethyl-6,7-benzomorphan), has recently been announced1. This compound, of which the (-) isomer has an analgesic effect twenty times as great as that of morphine, is now undergoing clinical trials in the United States.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- August 1959
- DOI:
- 10.1038/184451a0
- Bibcode:
- 1959Natur.184..451C