title: Metabolism of promethazine in vitro. Identificaton of N-oxidized products.
abstract: 1. Incubation of promethazine (Ia) and desmethylpromethazine (Ib) with 9000g supernatant fractions of rabbit liver homogenate resulted in formation of N-dealkylated, N-oxygenated and ring-hydroxylated products. 2. The N-oxidation products identified by t.l.c. and mass spectra using synthetic reference products are promethazine-N-oxide (IX) and the nitrone (VIII), which is believed to be formed chemically and metabolically from the metabolite N-hydroxydesmethylpromethazine (VII).
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D011398:Promethazine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism*; D011817:Rabbits
chemical_list: D011398:Promethazine