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folinic acid   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 4816

Synonyms: 5-formyltetrahydrofolic acid | leucovorin | Wellcovorin®
Approved drug
folinic acid is an approved drug (FDA (1952))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Folinic acid is the biologically active form of folic acid (also known as the (-)-l-isomer, citrovorum factor or (-)-folinic acid). The approved drug is called leucovorin.

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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 13
Hydrogen bond donors 7
Rotatable bonds 11
Topological polar surface area 219.84
Molecular weight 473.17
XLogP -1.66
No. Lipinski's rules broken 2

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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 O=CN1C(CNc2ccc(cc2)C(=O)NC(C(=O)O)CCC(=O)O)CNc2c1c(=O)nc([nH]2)N
Isomeric SMILES O=CN1C(CNc2ccc(cc2)C(=O)N[C@H](C(=O)O)CCC(=O)O)CNc2c1c(=O)nc([nH]2)N
InChI InChI=1S/C20H23N7O7/c21-20-25-16-15(18(32)26-20)27(9-28)12(8-23-16)7-22-11-3-1-10(2-4-11)17(31)24-13(19(33)34)5-6-14(29)30/h1-4,9,12-13,22H,5-8H2,(H,24,31)(H,29,30)(H,33,34)(H4,21,23,25,26,32)/t12?,13-/m0/s1
InChI Key VVIAGPKUTFNRDU-ABLWVSNPSA-N

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Classification Click here for help
Compound class Synthetic organic
Approved drug? Yes. US FDA (1952)
IUPAC Name Click here for help
(2S)-2-[(4-{[(2-amino-5-formyl-4-oxo-1,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydropteridin-6-yl)methyl]amino}phenyl)formamido]pentanedioic acid
Synonyms Click here for help
5-formyltetrahydrofolic acid | leucovorin | Wellcovorin®
Database Links Click here for help
CAS Registry No. 58-05-9 (source: Scifinder)
ChEBI CHEBI:15640
ChEMBL Ligand CHEMBL1679
DrugBank Ligand DB00650
DrugCentral Ligand 1232
GtoPdb PubChem SID 178101518
PubChem CID 135403648
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Wikipedia Folinic_acid

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Folinic acid (links to external site)
Cat. No. HY-17556