aniline mustard
An alkylating mustard with antineoplastic activity. Aniline mustard forms covalent linkages with nucleophilic centers, resulting in depurination, base miscoding and strand scission, and crosslinking of DNA strands, all of which contribute to its cytotoxicity.
| Synonym: | lymphochin lymphocin lymphoquin mesylerythrol |
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| Code name: | A 14489 CB 1074 SK 592 TL 476 |
| Chemical structure: | benzenamine, N, N-bis(2-chloroethyl)-(9CI) beta, beta'-dichlorodiethylaniline N,N-bis(2-chloroethyl)aniline N,N-bis(2-chloroethyl)benzenamine phenylbis[2-chloroethylamine] |
| IND number: | 5886 |
| NSC code: | 18429 |