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procaine   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 4291

Synonyms: Novocain®
Approved drug
procaine is an approved drug (FDA (1972))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Procaine was approved by the FDA in combination with penicillin in 1948.
Marketed formulations may contain procaine hydrochloride (PubChem CID 5795). In the WHO Essential Medicines list as procaine benzylpenicillin.
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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 4
Hydrogen bond donors 1
Rotatable bonds 7
Topological polar surface area 55.56
Molecular weight 236.15
XLogP 1.84
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0

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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.

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/)

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Canonical SMILES CCN(CCOC(=O)c1ccc(cc1)N)CC
Isomeric SMILES CCN(CCOC(=O)c1ccc(cc1)N)CC
InChI InChI=1S/C13H20N2O2/c1-3-15(4-2)9-10-17-13(16)11-5-7-12(14)8-6-11/h5-8H,3-4,9-10,14H2,1-2H3
InChI Key MFDFERRIHVXMIY-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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/)
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Summary of Clinical Use Click here for help
Used as a local anaesthetic in dental surgery.
Mechanism Of Action and Pharmacodynamic Effects Click here for help
The inhibition of sodium influx through voltage-gated sodium channels in the neuronal cell membrane of peripheral nerves leads to the inhibition of signal conductance. Procaine also binds to or antagonises NMDA receptors, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and the serotonin receptor-ion channel complex.
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