Oxandrolone
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Non-proprietary name | Oxandrolone | |||||||||||||||||||||
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17 β -hydroxy-17 α -methyl-2-oxa-5 α -androstan-3-one |
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Molecular formula | C 19 H 30 O 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Molar mass | 306.44 g · mol -1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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firmly |
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236-237 ° C |
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As far as possible and customary, SI units are used. Unless otherwise noted, the data given apply to standard conditions . |
Oxandrolone (trade names Oxandrin and Anavar ) is a 17-methyl steroid and an anabolic steroid that was first synthesized in 1962.
It is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an orphan drug for the treatment of alcoholic hepatitis , Turner syndrome, and weight loss due to HIV .
Like all banned anabolic steroids, it must not be used by athletes at any time (not even for medical reasons) (→ doping list ).
Web links
- Oxandrolon - Information from the German Sport University Cologne
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry on Oxandrolone in the ChemIDplus database of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) .
- ↑ harmonized classification for this substance . A labeling of Oxandrolone in the Classification and Labeling Inventory of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), which was accessed on April 3, 2020, is reproduced from a self-classification by the distributor . There is not yet a