nicotine   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 2585

Synonyms: Nicorette® | Nicotrol®
Approved drug PDB Ligand
nicotine is an approved drug (FDA (1984))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Nicotine is a natural alkaloid of the tobacco plant. It is an addictive stimulant, which is an agonist of most nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) (it is an antagonist of the nAChRα9 and nAChRα10 receptor subtypes).
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2D Structure
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Physico-chemical Properties
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Hydrogen bond acceptors 2
Hydrogen bond donors 0
Rotatable bonds 1
Topological polar surface area 16.13
Molecular weight 162.12
XLogP 1.13
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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Canonical SMILES CN1CCCC1c1cccnc1
Isomeric SMILES CN1CCC[C@H]1c1cccnc1
InChI InChI=1S/C10H14N2/c1-12-7-3-5-10(12)9-4-2-6-11-8-9/h2,4,6,8,10H,3,5,7H2,1H3/t10-/m0/s1
InChI Key SNICXCGAKADSCV-JTQLQIEISA-N
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Summary of Clinical Use Click here for help
Used as an aid to smoking cessation and for the relief of nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
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Agonist at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
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