Modafinil
Chemical Formula: C15H15NO2S
Molecular Weight: 273.4
CAS Number: 68693-11-8
Description:white or almost white crystalline powder, ≥98.5% (HPLC)
Modafinil is a stimulant drug marketed as a ‘wakefulness promoting agent’ and is one of the stimulants used in the treatment of narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is caused by dysfunction of a family of wakefulness-promoting and sleep-suppressing peptides, the orexins, whose neurons are activated by modafinil.