Drug common name | Mersalyl |
INN | mersalyl |
Description | Mersalyl (Mersal) is an organomercury compound and mercurial diuretic. It is only rarely used as a drug, having been superseded by diuretic medications that do not contain mercury and are therefore less toxic. It features a Hg(II) centre. Mersalyl was originally adapted from calomel (Hg2Cl2), a diuretic discovered by Paracelsus.
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Classification | Small molecule |
Drug class | anti-inflammatory agents (salicylic acid derivatives) |
Image (chem structure or protein) | ![]() |
Structure (InChI/SMILES or Protein Sequence) | — |
PDB | — |
CAS-ID | 486-67-9 |
RxCUI | — |
ChEMBL ID | CHEMBL1200943 |
ChEBI ID | — |
PubChem CID | 101318324 |
DrugBank | — |
UNII ID | 5X1IO031V8 (ChemIDplus, GSRS) |