docetaxel   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 6809

Synonyms: Docecad® | docetaxel anhydrous | EmDOC | Taxotere®
Approved drug PDB Ligand
docetaxel is an approved drug (FDA (1996), EMA (1995))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Docetaxel is a pan tubulin inhibitor which is a semi-synthetic analogue of paclitaxel (taxol), an extract from the bark of the rare Pacific yew tree Taxus brevifolia.
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2D Structure
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Physico-chemical Properties
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Hydrogen bond acceptors 15
Hydrogen bond donors 5
Rotatable bonds 14
Topological polar surface area 224.45
Molecular weight 807.35
XLogP 2.4
No. Lipinski's rules broken 2
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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Canonical SMILES CC(=O)OC12COC1CC(C1(C2C(OC(=O)c2ccccc2)C2(O)CC(OC(=O)C(C(c3ccccc3)NC(=O)OC(C)(C)C)O)C(=C(C2(C)C)C(C1=O)O)C)C)O
Isomeric SMILES CC(=O)O[C@@]12CO[C@@H]1C[C@@H]([C@@]1([C@@H]2[C@H](OC(=O)c2ccccc2)[C@]2(O)C[C@H](OC(=O)[C@@H]([C@H](c3ccccc3)NC(=O)OC(C)(C)C)O)C(=C(C2(C)C)[C@H](C1=O)O)C)C)O
InChI InChI=1S/C43H53NO14/c1-22-26(55-37(51)32(48)30(24-15-11-9-12-16-24)44-38(52)58-39(3,4)5)20-43(53)35(56-36(50)25-17-13-10-14-18-25)33-41(8,34(49)31(47)29(22)40(43,6)7)27(46)19-28-42(33,21-54-28)57-23(2)45/h9-18,26-28,30-33,35,46-48,53H,19-21H2,1-8H3,(H,44,52)/t26-,27-,28+,30-,31+,32+,33-,35-,41+,42-,43+/m0/s1
InChI Key ZDZOTLJHXYCWBA-VCVYQWHSSA-N
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Compound class Synthetic organic
Approved drug? Yes (FDA (1996), EMA (1995))
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INN number INN
6621 docetaxel
Synonyms Click here for help
Docecad® | docetaxel anhydrous | EmDOC | Taxotere®
Database Links Click here for help
CAS Registry No. 114977-28-5
ChEBI CHEBI:4672
ChEMBL Ligand CHEMBL92
DrugBank Ligand DB01248
DrugCentral Ligand 939
GtoPdb PubChem SID 178103415
PubChem CID 148124
RCSB PDB Ligand TXL
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