desflurane   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 7156

Synonyms: I-653 | Suprane®
Approved drug
desflurane is an approved drug (FDA (1992))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Desflurane is a highly fluorinated methyl ethyl ether general anaesthetic. it is a racemic mixture of (R) and (S) optical isomers (enantiomers). We show the chemical structure without specified stereochemistry to represent the mixture. Desflurane is a greenhouse gas.
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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 CDK toolkit. 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 1
Hydrogen bond donors 0
Rotatable bonds 3
Topological polar surface area 9.23
Molecular weight 168
XLogP 2.47
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0
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 FC(OC(C(F)(F)F)F)F
Isomeric SMILES FC(OC(C(F)(F)F)F)F
InChI InChI=1S/C3H2F6O/c4-1(3(7,8)9)10-2(5)6/h1-2H
InChI Key DPYMFVXJLLWWEU-UHFFFAOYSA-N
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Summary of Clinical Use Click here for help
Desflurane is used as a general anaesthetic.
Mechanism Of Action and Pharmacodynamic Effects Click here for help
Desflurane perturbs nerve cell membrane fluidity and alters the activity of many ion channels and receptors required for cell-cell signalling across gap junctions and which underlie the action potential. In this way the drug induces generalised muscle relaxation and insensitivity to pain.