afloqualone afloqualone afloqualone (arofuto) is a quinazolinone family gabaergic drug and is an analogue of methaqualone developed in the 1970s by a team at tanabe seiyaku. it has sedative and muscle-relaxant effects resulting from its agonist activity at the β subtype of the gabaa receptor and has had some clinical use, although it causes photosensitization as a side-effect that can cause skin problems such as dermatitis. afloqualoneclinical dataahfs/drugs.cominternational drug namesatc codenonelegal statuslegal status us: unscheduled identifiers iupac name 6-amino-2-(fluoromethyl)-3-(2-methylphenyl)quinazolin-4-one cas number56287-74-2 npubchem cid2040chemspider1960 yuniico4u2c8orzkeggd01638 ychemblchembl2105918 ncomptox dashboard (epa)dtxsid5022562 chemical and physical dataformulac16h14fn3omolar mass283.3 g·mol−13d model (jsmol)interactive image smiles o=c1c2=cc(n)=cc=c2n=c(cf)n1c3=cc=cc=c3c inchi inchi=1s/c16h14fn3o/c1-10-4-2-3-5-14(10)20-15(9-17)19-13-7-6-11(18)8-12(13)16(20)21/h2-8h,9,18h2,1h3 ykey:vdoswxidetxfet-uhfffaoysa-n y ny (what is this?) (verify)