licarbazepine licarbazepine licarbazepine is a voltage-gated sodium channel blocker with anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing effects that is related to oxcarbazepine. it is an active metabolite of oxcarbazepine. in addition, an enantiomer of licarbazepine, eslicarbazepine ((s)-(+)-licarbazepine), is an active metabolite of eslicarbazepine acetate. oxcarbazepine and eslicarbazepine acetate are inactive on their own, and behave instead as prodrugs to licarbazepine and eslicarbazepine, respectively, to produce their therapeutic effects. licarbazepinetop: (r)-(−)-licarbazepinebottom: (s)-(+)-licarbazepineclinical dataatc codenonepharmacokinetic dataprotein binding<40%metabolitesglucuronidesexcretionmainly renalidentifiers iupac name (rs)-10,11-dihydro-10-hydroxy-5h-dibenzazepine-5-carboxamide cas number29331-92-8pubchem cid114709chemspider102704uniixfx1a5kj3vkeggd09215chemblchembl1067comptox dashboard (epa)dtxsid50865484 echa infocard100.122.427 chemical and physical dataformulac15h14n2o2molar mass254.289 g·mol−13d model (jsmol)interactive imagechiralityracemic mixture smiles nc(=o)n1c2ccccc2cc(o)c3ccccc13 inchi inchi=1s/c15h14n2o2/c16-15(19)17-12-7-3-1-5-10(12)9-14(18)11-6-2-4-8-13(11)17/h1-8,14,18h,9h2,(h2,16,19)key:bmpdwhidqytshx-uhfffaoysa-n