5521. Lithium Acetate

Nomenclature

CAS number: 546-89-4
Quilonum (GSK).
C2H3LiO2; mol wt 65.99.
C 36.40%, H 4.58%, Li 10.52%, O 48.49%.

Description and references

Prepn: Gmelins, Lithium (8th Ed.) 20, pp 230-232 (1927). Prepn and solubilities: N. V. Sidgwick, J. A. H. R. Gentle, J. Chem. Soc. 121, 1837 (1922). Crystal structure of anhydrous: C. Saunderson, R. B. Ferguson, Acta Crystallogr. 14, 321 (1961). Pharmacokinetics in psychiatric patients: J.-L. Evrard et al., Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 58, 67 (1978).

Properties

mp 286° (slight dec). Changes to dihydrate at 56.5°.

Derivative

Dihydrate.

Nomenclature

CAS number: 6108-17-4
Quilonorm (Doetsch, Grether).

Properties

Rhombic crystals. Begins to melt at 49° (Gmelin). Congruent mp 57.8° (Sidgwick). Freely sol in water or alcohol. Its aq soln is practically neutral.

Therapeutic Category

Antimanic.

Keywords

Antimanic