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It's got so many fluorines running around that intuitively as an amateur chemist I would expect it to have an extraordinarily long half life in the human body,
by jaggederest 2y ago
It's got so many fluorines running around that intuitively as an amateur chemist I would expect it to have an extraordinarily long half life in the human body, especially so if it's administered as a depot injection in something with a large molecular weight. It takes your body a long time to chew through the inactive components in a depot injection.
- hilbert42 2y agoYeah, I also noted the fluorines (and Lowe's comment), and I know they're used to prolong action such as with, say, fluoxetine with its three fluorines but six months seems extremely long. I'd have thought it'd have been flushed out long before that. Presumably, it must bind to lipids, fats etc. Anyway, whatever, it's clearly a brilliant bit of chem eng.