desogestrel   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 7065

Synonyms: ORG-2969
Approved drug
desogestrel is an approved drug (FDA (1992), EMA (1998))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Desogestrel is a progestin (synthetic progesterone-like agent) widely used in third-generation hormonal contraceptives. Desogestrel is converted to etonogestrel (3-ketodesogestrel) in vivo. There has been controversy surrounding reports that third-generation oral contraceptives containing desogestrel pose a risk of dangerous blood clots compared to older second-generation oral contraceptives.
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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 1
Hydrogen bond donors 1
Rotatable bonds 1
Topological polar surface area 20.23
Molecular weight 310.23
XLogP 5.49
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 CCC12CC(=C)C3C(C1CCC2(O)C#C)CCC1=CCCCC31
Isomeric SMILES CC[C@]12CC(=C)[C@H]3[C@H]([C@@H]1CC[C@@]2(O)C#C)CCC1=CCCC[C@H]31
InChI InChI=1S/C22H30O/c1-4-21-14-15(3)20-17-9-7-6-8-16(17)10-11-18(20)19(21)12-13-22(21,23)5-2/h2,8,17-20,23H,3-4,6-7,9-14H2,1H3/t17-,18-,19-,20+,21-,22-/m0/s1
InChI Key RPLCPCMSCLEKRS-BPIQYHPVSA-N

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