Pseudomorphine (also known as oxydimorphine or dehydromorphine) is an inactive, natural dimerisation product of the morphine molecule in tandem and thus a common impurity in morphine concentrations.
[2] This compound may be synthesized by the oxidative coupling of morphine by potassium ferricyanide.
[1] Pseudomorphine contributes very little to morphine's effects.
It produces no effects in the central nervous or gastrointestinal systems, but it might have some effects on the circulatory system.
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