desmethylcitalopram desmethylcitalopram desmethylcitalopram is an active metabolite of the antidepressant drugs citalopram (racemic) and escitalopram (the s-enantiomer, which would be called desmethylescitalopram). like citalopram and escitalopram, desmethylcitalopram functions as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (ssri), and is responsible for some of its parents' therapeutic benefits. desmethylcitalopramclinical dataatc codenonelegal statuslegal status in general: uncontrolled pharmacokinetic dataelimination half-life50 hidentifiers iupac name (rs/s)-1--1-(4-fluorophenyl)-1,3-dihydroisobenzofuran-5-carbonitrile cas number62498-67-3 npubchem cid162180chemspider142424 nunii3kbx9104ircomptox dashboard (epa)dtxsid90881082 echa infocard100.057.776 chemical and physical dataformulac19h19fn2omolar mass310.372 g·mol−13d model (jsmol)interactive image smiles cncccc1(c2=c(co1)c=c(c=c2)c#n)c3=cc=c(c=c3)f inchi inchi=1s/c19h19fn2o/c1-22-10-2-9-19(16-4-6-17(20)7-5-16)18-8-3-14(12-21)11-15(18)13-23-19/h3-8,11,22h,2,9-10,13h2,1h3 nkey:ptjaddmmfyxmmg-uhfffaoysa-n n ny (what is this?) (verify)