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Stereochemistry RACEMIC
Molecular Formula C5H6N2O4
Molecular Weight 158.1121
Optical Activity ( + / - )
Defined Stereocenters 0 / 1
E/Z Centers 0
Charge 0

SHOW SMILES / InChI
Structure of IBOTENIC ACID

SMILES

NC(C(O)=O)C1=CC(=O)NO1

InChI

InChIKey=IRJCBFDCFXCWGO-UHFFFAOYSA-N
InChI=1S/C5H6N2O4/c6-4(5(9)10)2-1-3(8)7-11-2/h1,4H,6H2,(H,7,8)(H,9,10)

HIDE SMILES / InChI

Molecular Formula C5H6N2O4
Molecular Weight 158.1121
Charge 0
Count
Stereochemistry RACEMIC
Additional Stereochemistry No
Defined Stereocenters 0 / 1
E/Z Centers 0
Optical Activity ( + / - )

Ibotenic acid is an isoxazole originally isolated from Amanita mushrooms. The toxic fungi Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric, was used to prepare the soma. The feelings of euphoria or invincibility experienced by those who drank it were eventually attributed to a group of isoxazoles centuries later. Two of these - ibotenic acid and muscimol - were first isolated from the Japanese mushroom Amanita ibotengutake in the 1960s, but found in abundance in all Amanita mushrooms. Ibotenic acid is a non-protein amino acid that is unstable and easily decarboxylated to muscimol. Ibotenic acid is a glutamate agonist, acting at glutamate receptors. Ibotenic acid is neurotoxic and used to induce cerebral lesioning in animal models.

Originator

Curator's Comment: Isolation of ibotenic acid from A. muscaria was reported almost simultaneously from the laboratories of Takemoto and Bowden. reference retrieved from https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bulletin_1970-01-01_4_page005.html | https://erowid.org/plants/amanitas/amanitas_info_ott.shtml

Approval Year

PubMed

PubMed

TitleDatePubMed
Dopamine dependent behaviours in rats with bilateral ibotenic acid-induced lesions of the globus pallidus.
1986 Jan
A pharmacological characterization of the mGluR1 alpha subtype of the metabotropic glutamate receptor expressed in a cloned baby hamster kidney cell line.
1993 Aug 13
Delayed effects of neonatal hippocampal damage on haloperidol-induced catalepsy and apomorphine-induced stereotypic behaviors in the rat.
1993 Oct 15
Gonadectomy does not prevent novelty or drug-induced motor hyperresponsiveness in rats with neonatal hippocampal damage.
1994 Apr 15
RJR-2403: a nicotinic agonist with CNS selectivity II. In vivo characterization.
1996 Dec
Effect of Trasina, an ayurvedic herbal formulation, on experimental models of Alzheimer's disease and central cholinergic markers in rats.
1997 Winter
Characterization of [(3)H]Quisqualate binding to recombinant rat metabotropic glutamate 1a and 5a receptors and to rat and human brain sections.
2000 Dec
Reduced N-acetylaspartate in prefrontal cortex of adult rats with neonatal hippocampal damage.
2002 Sep
Neonatal ventral hippocampus lesion leads to reductions in nerve growth factor inducible-B mRNA in the prefrontal cortex and increased amphetamine response in the nucleus accumbens and dorsal striatum.
2003
Effects of T-82, a novel acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, on impaired learning and memory in passive avoidance task in rats.
2003 Mar 28
Patents

Sample Use Guides

Ibotenic acid evokes entheogenic effects in human beings at doses ranging from 50 - 100 mg (Chilton 1975; Theobald et al. 1968). Ibotenic acid is neurotoxic and used to induce cerebral lesioning in animal models: e.g. rats were bilaterally insular cortex lesioned with ibotenic acid (200-300 nl.; 15 mg/ml).
Route of Administration: Other
Activation of glutamate release from C6 cells by ibotenic acid was evaluated (EC50 = 10 nM).
Substance Class Chemical
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Name Type Language
IBOTENIC ACID
MI  
Common Name English
DL-IBOTENIC ACID
Common Name English
IBOTENIC ACID [MI]
Common Name English
NSC-204850
Code English
IBOTENIC ACID, (±)-
Common Name English
Ibotenic acid [WHO-DD]
Common Name English
(RS)-IBOTENIC ACID
Common Name English
(±)-IBOTENIC ACID
Common Name English
5-ISOXAZOLEACETIC ACID, .ALPHA.-AMINO-2,3-DIHYDRO-3-OXO-
Systematic Name English
Code System Code Type Description
MERCK INDEX
m6186
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PUBCHEM
1233
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EPA CompTox
DTXSID40893771
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CAS
2552-55-8
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FDA UNII
44AS82FRSI
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WIKIPEDIA
Ibotenic acid
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NSC
204850
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