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chloramphenicol   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 10901

Synonyms: Brolene® | chloromycetin
Approved drug PDB Ligand
chloramphenicol is an approved drug (FDA (1959))
Compound class: Natural product
Comment: Chloramphenicol is a broad-spectrum antibacterial originally isolated from the soil-dwelling actinomycete Streptomyces venequelae [2], but now produced commercially through total chemical synthesis. Its activity is primarily bacteriostatic.
Chloramphenicol is one of the access group antibacterials on the World Health Organization's Model List of Essential Medicines (link provided in the Classification table under the Summary tab).

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2D Structure
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2D Structure

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Physico-chemical Properties
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Physico-chemical Properties

Calculated molecular properties are available for small molecules and natural products (not peptides). Properties were generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/). All properties were selected to enable the prediction of the Lipinski Rule-of-Five profile or ‘druglikeness’ for each ligand. For more info on each category see the help pages.

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Hydrogen bond acceptors 4
Hydrogen bond donors 3
Rotatable bonds 7
Topological polar surface area 112.7
Molecular weight 322.01
XLogP 0.69
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0

Generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/)
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey

SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) A specification for unambiguously describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings. Canonical SMILES specify a unique representation of the 2D structure without chiral or isotopic specifications. Isomeric SMILES include chiral specification and isotopes.

Standard InChI (IUPAC International Chemical Identifier) and InChIKey InChI is a non-proprietary, standard, textual identifier for chemical substances designed to facilitate linking of information and database searching. An InChIKey is a simplified version of a full InChI, designed for easier web searching.

Generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/)

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Canonical SMILES OC[C@H]([C@@H](c1ccc(cc1)[N+](=O)[O-])O)NC(=O)C(Cl)Cl
Isomeric SMILES OC[C@H]([C@@H](c1ccc(cc1)[N+](=O)[O-])O)NC(=O)C(Cl)Cl
InChI InChI=1S/C11H12Cl2N2O5/c12-10(13)11(18)14-8(5-16)9(17)6-1-3-7(4-2-6)15(19)20/h1-4,8-10,16-17H,5H2,(H,14,18)/t8-,9-/m1/s1
InChI Key WIIZWVCIJKGZOK-RKDXNWHRSA-N

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Summary of Clinical Use Click here for help
Chloramphenicol is widely used for topical application to treat eye infections. Because of serious risk of causing aplastic anemia, systemic chloramphenicol use is reserved for severe, life-threatening infections that do not succumb to other antibacterials.
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For extended ADME data see the following:

Electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC)
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