
Ball-and-stick model of diphenylmethane
The benzhydryl compounds are a group of organic compounds whose parent structures include diphenylmethane (which is two benzene rings connected by a single methane), with any number of attached substituents, including bridges. This group typically excludes compounds in which either benzene is fused to another ring (bicyclic, tricyclic, polycyclic)[1] or includes a heteroatom, or where the methane connects to three or four benzenes.

Ball-and-stick model of the benzhydryl radical
Carboaromatic
Alcohols
- Acyclic: pridinol
 - Pyrolidino: diphenylprolinol
 - 2-Piperidine: pipradrol
 - 4-Piperidine: terfenadine, fexofenadine
 - Benzilic ester: QNB, JB-336, JB-318, benactyzine
 
Alkenes
- Tricycle: amitriptyline, melitracen, cyclobenzaprine, tianeptine, amineptine, clopenthixol, chlorprothixene, flupentixol, thiothixene, zuclopenthixol
 - Tricyclic and piperidine: pimethixene, cyproheptadine
 - Acyclic: gilutensin
 
Alkyl(amine)s
- Acyclic: (3-phenylpropylamine), tolpropamine, tolterodine
 - Piperidine: desoxypipradrol, budipine[3]
 - N-alkyl-4-piperidinol: penfluridol
 - N-arylalkyl-piperidine: pimozide
 - Tetrahydronaphthalene: tametraline (4-phenylaminotetralin), sertraline
 - Tetrahydroisoquinoline: nomifensine, diclofensine "tetrahydronaphisoquinoline", dinapsoline (see doxanthrine and dinoxyline)
 - Pyrroloisoquinoline: JNJ-7925476
 - Indanamine: Lu 19-005
 - Tricyclic: 9-Aminomethyl-9,10-dihydroanthracene, phenindamine (see MPTP)
 - Tetracyclic: maprotiline, dihydrexidine, butaclamol, ecopipam
 - Tetrahydrobenzazepine: SKF-83959, SKF-82958, SKF-81297, SKF 38393, fenoldopam, 6-Br-APB, SCH 23390
 - Piperazine: amperozide
 - Triazaspiro: fluspirilene
 
Alkoxy compounds
- Acyclic (3 °C): diphenhydramine (c.f deramciclane), orphenadrine, p-methyldiphenhydramine
 - Acyclic (4 °C): moxastine, Clemastine, embramine,
 - Piperazine: GBR-12935, GBR 12909, DBL-583
 - Tropine: benztropine, deptropine, etybenzatropine, difluoropine
 - Piperidine: diphenylpyraline
 - Phthalane: talopram, citalopram
 - Octahedral: nefopam
 - Benzdihydropyran: A-68930 (isochromene)
 
Amines
- Piperazine: cyclizine, clocinizine, hydroxyzine, meclozine, cetirizine, dotarizine, cinnarizine
 - Benzazepine: mianserin
 - Tetracyclic: dizocilpine
 
Other
- Aromatic alkoxy: bifemelane, phenyltoloxamine
 - Keto: phenadoxone, methadone, dipipanone, etc.
 - Amido: dextromoramide
 - Imino: benzodiazepine, GYKI-52895
 - Sulfinyl: modafinil, adrafinil
 - Pituxate gem-diphenylcyclopropane
 
Heteroaromatic
These species are not strictly benzhydryl-containing but are analogous.
Heteroaromatic rings
- Alkene: thiambutene, loratadine
 - Alkylamine: A-86929, amfonelic acid
 
Benzenes linked by a non-carbon atom
- Nitrogen: promethazine, imipramine, acepromazine, chlorpromazine, fluphenazine, mesoridazine, levomepromazine, perazine, periciazine, perphenazine, prochlorperazine, sulforidazine, thioridazine, trifluoperazine, triflupromazine, clozapine, thiethylperazine
 - Indolic nitrogen: sertindole
 - Oxygen: loxapine, asenapine, tyrima
 
Benzene and heterocycle linked through a non-carbon
References
- ↑ Benzhydryl Compounds at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
 - ↑ "Abbreviations and Symbols". European Journal of Biochemistry. 74 (1): 1–6. 1977. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1977.tb11359.x. ISSN 0014-2956.
 - ↑ U.S. Patent 4,022,786
 
External links
- Benzhydryl+Compounds at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
 - Bromodiphenylmethane from PubChem, a.k.a. called benzhydryl bromide
 - 1-Benzyl-2-bromobenzene from PubChem, not called benzhydryl bromide
 
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