Mebroqualone

Mebroqualone

Systematic (IUPAC) name
3-(2-bromophenyl)-2-methylquinazolin-4(3H)-one
Clinical data
Legal status	DE: Anlage I (Controlled)
Identifiers
ATC code	none
PubChem	CID: 364842
ChemSpider	323878 Y
UNII	ST66S8F8EY Y
Chemical data
Formula	C15H11BrN2O
Molecular mass	315.17 g·mol−1
SMILES BrC1=C(N2C(C3=CC=CC=C3N=C2C)=O)C=CC=C1
InChI InChI=1S/C15H11BrN2O/c1-10-17-13-8-4-2-6-11(13)15(19)18(10)14-9-5-3-7-12(14)16/h2-9H,1H3 Y Key:NBUSAPJNASSKBP-UHFFFAOYSA-N Y
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Mebroqualone (MBQ) is a quinazolinone-class GABAergic and is an analogue of mecloqualone that has similar sedative and hypnotic properties to its parent compound, resulting from its agonist activity at the β subtype of the GABA_a receptor. It was originally synthesized in the 1960s Mebroqualone differs from mecloqualone by having a bromine atom instead of a chlorine on the 3-phenyl ring. It was made illegal in Germany in 1998 but little other information is available. It would appear that this compound was sold on the black market in Germany as a designer drug analogue of mecloqualone.

See also

• Methaqualone
• Afloqualone
• Etaqualone
• Methylmethaqualone
• Mecloqualone
• Cloroqualone
• Diproqualone
• Gamma-Aminobutyric acid