:Octamoxin

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| ImageFile = Octamoxin skeletal.svg

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| ImageName = Skeletal formula of octamoxin

| PIN = 1-Methylheptylhydrazine{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}}

| SystematicName = Octan-2-ylhydrazine{{Cite web|title=Octamoxin - Compound Summary|url=https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=20811|publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information|access-date=31 May 2012|location=USA|date=26 March 2005|at=Identification and Related Records}}

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| CASNo = 4684-87-1

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| PubChem = 20811

| ChemSpiderID = 19587

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| UNII = 0HXY3M6S54

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| SMILES = CCCCCCC(C)NN

| StdInChI = 1S/C8H20N2/c1-3-4-5-6-7-8(2)10-9/h8,10H,3-7,9H2,1-2H3

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| StdInChIKey = FODQIVGFADUBKE-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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| Section2 = {{Chembox Properties

| C=8 | H=20 | N=2

| Density = 0.831 g/mL

| BoilingPtC = 228

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| AdminRoutes = Oral

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| OtherCompounds = Tuaminoheptane

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Octamoxin (trade names Ximaol, Nimaol), also known as 2-octylhydrazine, is an irreversible and nonselective monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) of the hydrazine class that was used as an antidepressant in the 1960s but is now no longer marketed.{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=A0THacd46ZsC&q=octamoxin+ximaol&pg=PA1323 | title = Dictionary of pharmacological agents - Google Books | isbn = 9780412466304 | last1 = Ganellin | first1 = C. R. | last2 = Triggle | first2 = David J. | date = 21 November 1996 | publisher = CRC Press }}{{cite web | url = http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/merck/2009/13-06781.htm | title = 13-06781. Octamoxin [Archived]: The Merck Index }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Levy J, Michel-Ber E | title = [Relations between the antidepressive effects of octamoxine revealed by 3 pharmacological tests and inhibition of cerebral monoamine oxidase in mice] | language = fr | journal = Thérapie | volume = 21 | issue = 4 | pages = 929–45 | year = 1966 | pmid = 5925088 }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Gayral L, Stern H, Puyuelo R | title = [Indications and results of the treatment of mental depression by octamoxine (ximaol)] | language = fr | journal = Thérapie | volume = 21 | issue = 5 | pages = 1183–90 | year = 1966 | pmid = 5976767 }}