Chloroquine diphosphate

Product name : Chloroquine diphosphate
Synonyms :  N-(7-Chloro-4-quinolinyl)-N,N-dimethyl-1,4-pentanediamine diphosphate salt
CAS No. : 50-63-5
Molecular Formula : C18H26ClN3.2(H3PO4);C18H32ClN3O8P2 
Molecular Weight :  515.87 
Product description :
It is white crystalline powder.Chloroquine is used as an drug to treat and prevent mainly malaria. Malaria is one of leading re-emerging infectious disease due to murative malarial parasite developed resistance to chloroquine. Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is an alternative can be used in the treatment of the disease resistant to chloroquine, but resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine has been reported also in some areas. Artemisinin is an alternative used in areas where the disease has become highly resistant to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine. Chloroquine-resistant falciparum malaria should be treated with quinine sulfate, sulfonamide, doxycycline or with clindamycin. Other effective synthetic anti-malaria drugs are quinacrine, chloroquine, and primaquine. Vaccines against malaria are still experimental.