azelaic acid   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 7484

Synonyms: Azelex® | Finacea® | ZK-62498
Approved drug PDB Ligand Immunopharmacology Ligand
azelaic acid is an approved drug (FDA (1995))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Azelaic acid is a saturated dicarboxylic acid, used clinically for its antibacterial and anti-inflammatory actions, as well as for its ability to inhibit keratin and melanin production.

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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 2
Rotatable bonds 8
Topological polar surface area 74.6
Molecular weight 188.1
XLogP 1.71
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0

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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey

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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 OC(=O)CCCCCCCC(=O)O
Isomeric SMILES OC(=O)CCCCCCCC(=O)O
InChI InChI=1S/C9H16O4/c10-8(11)6-4-2-1-3-5-7-9(12)13/h1-7H2,(H,10,11)(H,12,13)
InChI Key BDJRBEYXGGNYIS-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Summary of Clinical Use Click here for help
Azelaic acid is applied topically to the skin to treat acne and rosacea.
Mechanism Of Action and Pharmacodynamic Effects Click here for help
Azelaic acid is believed to have antimicrobial action plus an anti-inflammatory effect which modulates follicular hyperkeratosis, as the MMOA for the drug's therapeutic efficacy in acne and rosacea.
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For extended ADME data see the following:

Electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC)
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