bexlosteride bexlosteride bexlosteride is a potent and noncompetitive inhibitor of the enzyme 5α-reductase related to finasteride and dutasteride. it is selective for the type i isoform of the enzyme. it advanced to phase iii clinical trials, but development was halted at that stage, and it was never marketed. bexlosterideclinical dataother namesly 300502routes ofadministrationoralatc codenonelegal statuslegal status in general: uncontrolled identifiers iupac name (4ar,10br)-8-chloro-4-methyl-1,4,4a,5,6,10b-hexahydrobenzoquinolin-3(2h)-one cas number148905-78-6 npubchem cid166562chemspider145762 yunii36x732p4p0chemblchembl24955 ychemical and physical dataformulac14h16clnomolar mass249.74 g·mol−13d model (jsmol)interactive image smiles cn12ccc3cc(ccc32ccc1=o)cl inchi inchi=1s/c14h16clno/c1-16-13-6-2-9-8-10(15)3-4-11(9)12(13)5-7-14(16)17/h3-4,8,12-13h,2,5-7h2,1h3/t12-,13-/m1/s1 ykey:wqbioefdddearx-chwsqxevsa-n y ny (what is this?) (verify)