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. 2023 Nov 20;67(2):1024–1043. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c01225

Table 1. In Vitro Metabolic Stability of Psilocybin and Twenty-Eight Novel Prodrug Derivatives (NPDs) upon Exposure to Human Serum and Human S9 and Microsomal Fractions.

  in vitro Half-life (T1/2) [min]
NPDa (aq) liver S9 fraction liver microsomes intestine S9 fraction intestine microsomes serum
PCB 195.0
ES01 21.0 17.0 132.0 315.0 1.0
ES02 3.0 1.0 104.0 62.0 1.0
ES03 85.0 1.0 1.0 56.0 32.0 0.7
ES04 529.0 390.0 113.0
ES05 39.0 87.0 69.0 71.0 19.0
ES06 241.0 445.0 621.0 101.0
ES07 80.0 16.0 5.0 72.0 60.0 0.8
ES08 15.0 25.0 16.0 11.0
ES09 3.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 49.0
ES10 33.0 22.0 33.0
C01 22.0 52.0 16.0 13.0 0.8
C02 113.0 529.0 211.0
C03 9.0 4.0 327.0 271.0 3.0
C04 277.0 221.0 150.0 182.0
C05 18.0 49.0 31.0 24.0 24.0 26.0
T01 5.0 6.0 50.0 71.0 14.0
T02 6.0 7.0 9.0 24.0 13.0 32.0
ET01 60.0 27.0 64.0 50.0
EE01 4.0 3.0 241.0 74.0 2.0
EE02 5.0 4.0 39.0 112.0 3.0
EE03 145.0 16.0 13.0 52.0 22.0 0.8
EC01 293.0 104.0 266.0 894.0 3.0
SE01 191.0 347.0
SE02 96.0 104.0 57.0 27.0
SE03 391.0 229.0
P02 96.0 43.0 52.0 28.0
P03
PA01 10.0 26.0 22.0 39.0 29.0 145.0
a

ES = ester; C = carbonate; T = thiocarbonate; ET = ether; EE = ether-esters; EC = ether-carbonate; SE = silyl-ether; P = phosphate; PA = phosphoramidate; PCB = psilocybin; (Aq) indicates that the assay was conducted in aqueous buffer only, minus any biological fraction; and “∞” indicates that compound is stable over the 120-min incubation period.