succinylcholine   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 4004

Synonyms: Quelicin® | suxamethonium
Approved drug PDB Ligand
succinylcholine is an approved drug (FDA (1952))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Succinylcholine (sux) is a short-acting depolarizing neuromuscular blocker. It acts as an acetylcholine agonist at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors at neuromuscular junctions, resulting in persistent depolarization of the motor end plate.
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 0
Rotatable bonds 11
Topological polar surface area 52.6
Molecular weight 290.22
XLogP -0.74
No. Lipinski's rules broken 1

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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.

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Canonical SMILES O=C(OCC[N+](C)(C)C)CCC(=O)OCC[N+](C)(C)C
Isomeric SMILES O=C(OCC[N+](C)(C)C)CCC(=O)OCC[N+](C)(C)C
InChI InChI=1S/C14H30N2O4/c1-15(2,3)9-11-19-13(17)7-8-14(18)20-12-10-16(4,5)6/h7-12H2,1-6H3/q+2
InChI Key AXOIZCJOOAYSMI-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Summary of Clinical Use Click here for help
Skeletal muscle relaxant used in surgical procedures where a rapid onset and brief duration of muscle relaxation is required.
Mechanism Of Action and Pharmacodynamic Effects Click here for help
Succinylcholine mimics the effects of acetylcholine but without being rapidly hydrolysed by acetylcholinesterase, leading to persistent depolarisation of the neuromuscular junction leading to desensitisation.
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