piperaquine   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 10025

Approved drug Antimalarial Ligand
piperaquine is an approved drug (EMA (2011) in combination with artenimol)
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Piperaquine is a 4-aminoquinoline antimalarial compound.

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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 6
Hydrogen bond donors 0
Rotatable bonds 6
Topological polar surface area 38.74
Molecular weight 534.21
XLogP 5.59
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 Clc1ccc2c(c1)nccc2N1CCN(CC1)CCCN1CCN(CC1)c1ccnc2c1ccc(c2)Cl
Isomeric SMILES Clc1ccc2c(c1)nccc2N1CCN(CC1)CCCN1CCN(CC1)c1ccnc2c1ccc(c2)Cl
InChI InChI=1S/C29H32Cl2N6/c30-22-2-4-24-26(20-22)32-8-6-28(24)36-16-12-34(13-17-36)10-1-11-35-14-18-37(19-15-35)29-7-9-33-27-21-23(31)3-5-25(27)29/h2-9,20-21H,1,10-19H2
InChI Key UCRHFBCYFMIWHC-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Guide to Malaria Pharmacology Comments
Piperaquine is on the World Health Organisation's List of Essential Medicines. Click here to access the pdf version of the WHO's 21st Essential Medicines list (2019). Piperaquine is used in combination with artenimol as a curative treatment for malaria and is one of the artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) recommended in the WHO Guidelines for the treatment of malaria [3].

Potential Target/Mechanism Of Action: As the precise MOA of piperaquine is not yet known, we do not have a molecular target for this compound. It is thought that piperaquine has a similar MOA to chloroquine, killing the malaria parasite by causing a build up of toxic heme by inhibiting the enzyme that normally converts it to non-toxic haemozoin [1].