primaquine   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 9952

Approved drug PDB Ligand Antimalarial Ligand
primaquine is an approved drug (FDA (1952))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Primaquine is a synthetic, 8-aminoquinoline derivative that has potent antimalarial activity.
The approved drug is a racemic mixture and we show the chemical structure without stereochemistry to represent the mixture. The non-isomeric structure is also represented in the PubChem, ChEMBL and ChEBI entries listed in the links table below, while the two enantiomers forming the racemate are represented by PubChem CID 3044368 and PubChem CID 3044369.
The marketed formulations contain primaquine phosphate (PubChem CID 6135).

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2D Structure
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Physico-chemical Properties
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Hydrogen bond acceptors 3
Hydrogen bond donors 2
Rotatable bonds 6
Topological polar surface area 60.17
Molecular weight 259.17
XLogP 2.09
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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Canonical SMILES NCCCC(Nc1cc(OC)cc2c1nccc2)C
Isomeric SMILES NCCCC(Nc1cc(OC)cc2c1nccc2)C
InChI InChI=1S/C15H21N3O/c1-11(5-3-7-16)18-14-10-13(19-2)9-12-6-4-8-17-15(12)14/h4,6,8-11,18H,3,5,7,16H2,1-2H3
InChI Key INDBQLZJXZLFIT-UHFFFAOYSA-N
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Compound class Synthetic organic
Ligand families/groups Antimalarial ligands
Approved drug? Yes (FDA (1952))
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IUPAC Name Click here for help
N-(6-methoxyquinolin-8-yl)pentane-1,4-diamine
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INN number INN
218 primaquine
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CAS Registry No. 90-34-6 (source: Scifinder)
ChEBI CHEBI:8405
ChEMBL Ligand CHEMBL506
DrugCentral Ligand 2266
GtoPdb PubChem SID 374883839
PubChem CID 4908
RCSB PDB Ligand 1PQ
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