Arsenic

ATC (Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification)

L01XX27

CAS registry number (Chemical Abstracts Service)

0007440-38-2

Chemical Formula

As

Molecular Weight

74

Therapeutic Category

Antineoplastic agent

Chemical Name

Arsenic (IUPAC)

Foreign Name

• Arsen elementar (German)

Generic Names

• Arsenia (IS)
• Black Arsenic (IS)
• Colloidal Arsenic (IS)
• Grey Arsenic (IS)
• HSDB 509 (IS)
• Metallic Arsenic (IS)
• Solid Arsenic (IS)
• Arsenic (PH: USP 30, Ph. Eur. 5)
• Anhydride arsénieux (OS: DCF)
• Arsenic Trioxide (OS: JAN, USAN)
• Acide arsénieux (IS)
• Acidum arsenicum anhydricum (IS)
• Arsenic (III) oxide (IS)
• Arsenic oxide (IS)
• Arsenic sesquioxide (IS)
• Arsenic white, solid (IS)
• Arsenicum album (IS)
• Arsenige Säure (IS)
• Arsenious acid (IS)
• Arsenious acid, solid (IS)
• Arsenious anhydride (IS)
• Arsenious oxide (IS)
• Arsenious oxide anhydride (IS)
• Arsenite (IS)
• Arsenolites (IS)
• Arsodent (IS)
• Claudelite (IS)
• Claudetite (IS)
• Crude arsenic (IS)
• Diarsenic trioxide (IS)
• White arsenic (IS)
• Arsenic Trioxide (PH: USP 30, JP XV)
• Arsénieux (anhydride) (PH: Ph. Franç. Xe édit)

Brand Names

• Arsenic Trioxide
  AFT, New Zealand



• Asadin
  TTY Biopharm, Taiwan



• Trisenox
  Cell Therapeutics, Italy; Cell Therapeutics, Luxembourg; Cell Therapeutics, Netherlands; Cell Therapeutics, Portugal; Cephalon, Czech Republic; Cephalon, Germany; Cephalon, Spain; Cephalon, France; Cephalon, United Kingdom; Cephalon, Poland; Cephalon, Slovakia; Cephalon, United States; Cephalon Europe, Austria; Gen, Turkey; Infarama, Belgium; Nippon Shinyaku, Japan; Raffo, Argentina

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Glossary

DCF	Dénomination Commune Française
IUPAC	International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
IS	Inofficial Synonym
JAN	Japanese Accepted Name
OS	Official Synonym
PH	Pharmacopoeia Name
USAN	United States Adopted Name

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