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Details

Stereochemistry ACHIRAL
Molecular Formula 2Cl.Mg.6H2O
Molecular Weight 203.303
Optical Activity NONE
Defined Stereocenters 0 / 0
E/Z Centers 0
Charge 0

SHOW SMILES / InChI
Structure of MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE

SMILES

O.O.O.O.O.O.[Mg++].[Cl-].[Cl-]

InChI

InChIKey=DHRRIBDTHFBPNG-UHFFFAOYSA-L
InChI=1S/2ClH.Mg.6H2O/h2*1H;;6*1H2/q;;+2;;;;;;/p-2

HIDE SMILES / InChI
Molecular Formula Cl
Molecular Weight 35.453
Charge -1
Count
Stereochemistry ACHIRAL
Additional Stereochemistry No
Defined Stereocenters 0 / 0
E/Z Centers 0
Optical Activity NONE
Molecular Formula H2O
Molecular Weight 18.0153
Charge 0
Count
Stereochemistry ACHIRAL
Additional Stereochemistry No
Defined Stereocenters 0 / 0
E/Z Centers 0
Optical Activity NONE
Molecular Formula Mg
Molecular Weight 24.305
Charge 2
Count
Stereochemistry ACHIRAL
Additional Stereochemistry No
Defined Stereocenters 0 / 0
E/Z Centers 0
Optical Activity NONE

Description
Sources: https://www.drugs.com/dosage/magnesium-lactate.htmlhttps://www.scbt.com/scbt/product/magnesium-nitrate-hexahydrate-13446-18-9 | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18964415 | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2843308http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3444/pdfhttps://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2013/020309s028lbl.pdfhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/004484868990080Xhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/351265https://www.drugs.com/ppa/magnesium-chloride.htmlhttp://www.db-pharma.com/anglais/49.pdfhttps://www.xymogen.com/assets/imageDisplay.ashx?productID=111&attachmentTypeID=1http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/498932 | http://iicbe.org/upload/4152C514072.pdfdoi: 10.1081/SCC-120022479DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2008.883https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15480451 | https://www.scbt.com/scbt/product/magnesium-iodide-10377-58-9http://www.internationalcrystal.net/optics_11.htm | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27792982 | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26952467 | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27995243https://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/category-details?table=copytblagents&id=1640
Curator's Comment: description was created based on several sources, including: https://www.blackmores.com.au/products/magmin | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25262412 |http://www.webstercare.com.au/files/continuing_education/wc_continuing_edu_dec2011.pdf

Magnesium diamide is used as a chemical intermediate. Magnesium diamide is spontaneously combustible. It is toxic by inhalation. Skin or eye contact may cause severe burns.

CNS Activity

Originator

Ulex, G.L.
66
Curator's Comment: Ulex, a Swedish geologist, is generally credited with introduction of the term struvite in1845

Approval Year

1921
1468
Targets

Targets

Primary TargetPharmacologyConditionPotency
Inhibitor
8504
Modulator
846
Modulator
846
Modulator
846
Modulator
846
Interacts
323
Protein S100-A8
66
Target ID: P05109
Gene ID: 6279.0
Gene Symbol: S100A8
Target Organism: Homo sapiens (Human)
Binding Agent
1076
Conditions

Conditions

ConditionModalityTargetsHighest PhaseProduct
Primary
Basic research
Unknown

Approved Use

Unknown
Primary
Preclinical
Unknown

Approved Use

Unknown
Primary
Preclinical
Unknown

Approved Use

Unknown
Preventing
Approved
8583
MAGNESIUM SULFATE

Approved Use

INDICATIONS AND USAGE Magnesium Sulfate in Water for Injection is indicated for the prevention and control of seizures in preeclampsia and eclampsia, respectively. When used judiciously it effectively prevents and controls the convulsions of eclampsia without producing deleterious depression of the central nervous system of the mother or infant. However, other effective drugs are available for this purpose.

Launch Date

1995
Primary
Approved
8583
MAGNESIUM SULFATE

Approved Use

INDICATIONS AND USAGE Magnesium Sulfate in Water for Injection is indicated for the prevention and control of seizures in preeclampsia and eclampsia, respectively. When used judiciously it effectively prevents and controls the convulsions of eclampsia without producing deleterious depression of the central nervous system of the mother or infant. However, other effective drugs are available for this purpose.

Launch Date

1995
Diagnostic
Approved
8583
ColPrep Kit

Approved Use

INDICATIONS AND USAGE ColPrep Kit is indicated for cleansing of the colon as a preparation for colonoscopy in adults

Launch Date

2016
Primary
Phase III
665
MAGNESIUM SULFATE

Approved Use

INDICATIONS AND USAGE Magnesium Sulfate in Water for Injection is indicated for the prevention and control of seizures in preeclampsia and eclampsia, respectively. When used judiciously it effectively prevents and controls the convulsions of eclampsia without producing deleterious depression of the central nervous system of the mother or infant. However, other effective drugs are available for this purpose.

Launch Date

1995
Curative
Approved
8583
MagMin

Approved Use

Magnesium aspartate (MagMin) is indicated for patients with documented hypomagnesaemia.
Curative
Not Provided
511
DELBIASE

Approved Use

Unknown
Primary
Not Provided
511
DELBIASE

Approved Use

Unknown
Primary
Not Provided
511
DELBIASE

Approved Use

Unknown
Curative
Approved
8583
Magnesium Chloride

Approved Use

Magnesium Chloride injection is indicated as an electrolyte replenisher in magnesium deficiencies
Palliative
Phase II
1147
Magnesium Chloride

Approved Use

Unknown
Palliative
Phase III
665
Magnesium Chloride

Approved Use

Unknown
Primary
Approved
8583
EPIMAG

Approved Use

Magnesium citrate is indicated in cases of oxaluria, to prevent recurrence of calcium oxalate kidney stones.
Primary
Approved
8583
EPIMAG

Approved Use

Used to relief of occasional constipation (irregularity).
Curative
Approved
8583
Magnesium Citrate

Approved Use

Magnesium citrate is indicated to supports magnesium nutritional adequacy.
Curative
Approved
8583
Unknown

Approved Use

Magnesium lactate is a naturally occurring mineral that is needed in the body to support the function of the heart, nervous system, and digestive system. Magnesium lactate is used as a mineral supplement to treat magnesium deficiency.
PubMed

PubMed

TitleDatePubMed
Metabolic effects of prolonged intravenous administration of magnesium lactate to the normal human.
1958 Sep 23
Struvite stones.
1978 May
Hypomagnesaemic tetany associated with prolonged treatment with aminoglycosides.
1986 Mar 22
Metabolism of magnesium and zinc in patients treated with antiepileptic drugs and with magnesium lactate.
1987
A comparison of two digestion procedures for the determination of selenium in biological material.
1987 Oct
Fluorimetry of selenium in body fluids after digestion with nitric acid, magnesium nitrate hexahydrate, and hydrochloric acid.
1988 Sep
[Hemiparesis and torsade de pointes under low-dose sotalol therapy].
1990 Sep 22
Magnesium and its combination with cinnarizine in the long-term treatment of headache.
1991
Osteoporosis treated with magnesium lactate.
1991
Oral versus intravenous magnesium supplementation in patients with magnesium deficiency.
1991-1992
Management of eclampsia.
1994 Apr
Accidental cardiopulmonary arrest following magnesium sulphate overdose.
1994 Jun 15
Effect of pyridoxine and magnesium on stress-induced gastric ulcers in mice selected for low or high blood magnesium levels.
1995
Magnesium sulfate in the treatment of ventricular arrhythmias due to digoxin toxicity.
1995
Inhibition of mouse-killing behaviour in magnesium-deficient rats: effect of pharmacological doses of magnesium pidolate, magnesium aspartate, magnesium lactate, magnesium gluconate and magnesium chloride.
1995 Mar
Conventional and Eccentric Uses of Crystallographic Databases in Practical Materials Identification Problems.
1996 May-Jun
Magnesium supplementation in patients with congestive heart failure.
1997 Feb
Struvite stones.
1999
Effect of chronic magnesium supplementation on magnesium distribution in healthy volunteers evaluated by 31P-NMRS and ion selective electrodes.
1999 Nov
Some magnesium salts and a mixture of magnesium and calcium salts accelerate skin barrier recovery.
1999 Oct
Trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride-promoted alpha-bromination of ketones with grignard reagent or magnesium bromide.
2000 Dec
An efficient chiral moderator prepared from inexpensive (+)-3-carene: synthesis of the HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor DPC 963.
2000 Oct 5
Bioavailability of US commercial magnesium preparations.
2001 Dec
Contraindication of magnesium sulfate in a pregnancy complicated with late-onset diabetes mellitus and sensory deafness due to mitochondrial myopathy.
2001 Oct
Magnesium bromide mediated highly diastereoselective heterogeneous hydrogenation of olefins.
2002 Apr 18
Oral magnesium load test in patients with migraine.
2002 Feb
The prevention of pain from injection of rocuronium by magnesium sulphate, lignocaine, sodium bicarbonate and alfentanil.
2003 Jun
Synthesis of a non-heme template for attaching four peptides: an approach to artificial iron(II)-containing peroxidases.
2004 Jan 23
An evaluation of the impact of oral magnesium lactate on the corrected QT interval of patients receiving sotalol or dofetilide to prevent atrial or ventricular tachyarrhythmia recurrence.
2006 Apr
Magnesium ions and opioid agonist activity in streptozotocin-induced hyperalgesia.
2008
Formation of formal disilene fluoride adducts.
2008 Dec 24
Neuronal activity and TrkB ligands influence Kv3.1b and Kv3.2 expression in developing cortical interneurons.
2008 Oct 15
High dose magnesium sulfate exposure induces apoptotic cell death in the developing neonatal mouse brain.
2009
Intradermal administration of magnesium sulphate and magnesium chloride produces hypesthesia to mechanical but hyperalgesia to heat stimuli in humans.
2009 Aug 28
Galactosyl prodrug of ketorolac: synthesis, stability, and pharmacological and pharmacokinetic evaluations.
2009 Jun 25
Cardiopulmonary arrest in pregnancy: two case reports of successful outcomes in association with perimortem Caesarean delivery.
2009 Sep
Cardiac effects of magnesium sulfate pretreatment on acute dichlorvos-induced organophosphate poisoning: an experimental study in rats.
2010 Feb
Increased expression of glucose transporter 3 in gerbil brains following magnesium sulfate treatment and focal cerebral ischemic injury.
2010 Jun
Effect of magnesium lactate dihydrate and calcium lactate monohydrate on 20-km cycling time trial performance.
2012 Apr
Magnesium chloride tetrahydrate, MgCl2·4H2O.
2012 Jan
[The effectiveness of certain magnesium salts in nephrolithiasis caused by the use of sodium oxalate and celecoxib].
2013 Jan-Feb
No effect of magnesium supplementation on metabolic control and insulin sensitivity in type 2 diabetic patients with normomagnesemia.
2014 Apr-Jun
Single-day sodium picosulfate and magnesium citrate versus split-dose polyethylene glycol for bowel cleansing prior to colonoscopy: A prospective randomized endoscopist-blinded trial.
2015 Nov
Micronized Organic Magnesium Salts Enhance Opioid Analgesia in Rats.
2016
Polyethylene glycol plus ascorbic acid is as effective as sodium picosulfate with magnesium citrate for bowel preparation: A randomized trial.
2016 Apr
Preparation and optimization of a drug delivery system based on berberine chloride-immobilized MgAl hydrotalcite.
2016 Jun 15
Superiority of a Split-dose Regimen of Sodium Picosulfate/Magnesium Citrate (SPMC) in Comparison to a Prior-day Schedule (AM/PM) for Colonoscopy Preparation. A Randomized Single-blinded Study.
2016 Sep
Fast sono assisted ferrofluid mediated silver super - Adsorption over magnesium ferrite-copper sulfide chalcogenide with the aid of multivariate optimization.
2017 Jul
Magnesium lactate in the treatment of Gitelman syndrome: patient-reported outcomes.
2017 Mar 1
Antenatal Exposure to Magnesium Sulfate and Spontaneous Intestinal Perforation and Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Extremely Preterm Neonates.
2017 Oct
Patents

Patents

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119
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70
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68

Sample Use Guides

In Vivo Use Guide
Curator's Comment: Magnesium Chloride
Magnesium lactate is used as a dietary supplement (200-400 mg of elemental magnesium per day for adults).
Route of Administration: Oral
In Vitro Use Guide
Curator's Comment: Magnesium Chloride
Unknown
Substance Class Chemical
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Name Type Language
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE
FCC   II   INCI   JAN   ORANGE BOOK   USP   USP-RS   VANDF  
INCI  
Official Name English
Magnesium chloride hexahydrate
EP   MI   WHO-DD  
Preferred Name English
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE [USP-RS]
Common Name English
MAGNESIUM(II) CHLORIDE HEXAHYDRATE
Systematic Name English
MAGNESIA MURIATICA [HPUS]
Common Name English
INS-511
Code English
MAGNESIA MURIATICA
HPUS  
Common Name English
MAGNESIUM DICHLORIDE HEXAHYDRATE
Systematic Name English
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE [JAN]
Common Name English
MultiBic component magnesium chloride hexahydrate
Brand Name English
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE HEXAHYDRATE [MI]
Common Name English
POLYCATAN
Common Name English
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE (MGCL2) HYDRATE (1:6)
Common Name English
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE HEXAHYDRATE [EP MONOGRAPH]
Common Name English
Magnesium chloride hexahydrate [WHO-DD]
Common Name English
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE [FCC]
Common Name English
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE [USP MONOGRAPH]
Common Name English
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE, HEXAHYDRATE
Systematic Name English
E-511
Code English
BISCHOFITE
Common Name English
INS NO.511
Code English
NORMOCARB COMPONENT MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE
Common Name English
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE [II]
Common Name English
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE HYDRATE (MGCL2.6H2O)
Common Name English
BISCHOFITE (MGCL2.6H2O)
Common Name English
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE [ORANGE BOOK]
Common Name English
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE [VANDF]
Common Name English
Classification Tree Code System Code
WHO-VATC QB05XA11
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EPA PESTICIDE CODE 13902
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WHO-ATC B05XA11
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WHO-ATC A12CC01
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CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (GSFA) INS-511
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JECFA EVALUATION INS-511
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CFR 21 CFR 184.1426
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WHO-VATC QA12CC01
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Code System Code Type Description
DRUG BANK
DB09407
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EVMPD
SUB12526MIG
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MERCK INDEX
m6996
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PRIMARY Merck Index
CHEBI
6636
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ChEMBL
CHEMBL2219642
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CAS
7791-18-6
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RXCUI
221118
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CAS
13778-96-6
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ALTERNATIVE
DAILYMED
02F3473H9O
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NCI_THESAURUS
C29240
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SMS_ID
100000091409
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FDA UNII
02F3473H9O
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DRUG CENTRAL
4200
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EVMPD
SUB50141
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PUBCHEM
24644
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RXCUI
6579
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ALTERNATIVE
RS_ITEM_NUM
1374248
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PRIMARY
NCI_THESAURUS
C1505
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CONCEPT Dietary Supplement
MESH
D015636
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EPA CompTox
DTXSID0020789
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CHEBI
86345
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EVMPD
SUB20644
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WIKIPEDIA
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE
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