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megestrol   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 9128

Synonyms: Chronopil | Magestin | Megace® | megestryl acetate
Approved drug
megestrol is an approved drug (FDA (1971))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Megestrol (commonly administered as the acetate ester: PubChem CID 11683) is a synthetic derivative of the female sex hormone progesterone. It has anti-estrogenic and antineoplastic activity.
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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 3
Hydrogen bond donors 1
Rotatable bonds 1
Topological polar surface area 54.37
Molecular weight 342.22
XLogP 3.31
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 O=C1CCC2(C(=C1)C(=CC1C2CCC2(C1CCC2(O)C(=O)C)C)C)C
Isomeric SMILES O=C1CC[C@]2(C(=C1)C(=C[C@@H]1[C@@H]2CC[C@]2([C@H]1CC[C@]2(O)C(=O)C)C)C)C
InChI InChI=1S/C22H30O3/c1-13-11-16-17(20(3)8-5-15(24)12-19(13)20)6-9-21(4)18(16)7-10-22(21,25)14(2)23/h11-12,16-18,25H,5-10H2,1-4H3/t16-,17+,18+,20-,21+,22+/m1/s1
InChI Key VXIMPSPISRVBPZ-NWUMPJBXSA-N

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Classification Click here for help
Compound class Synthetic organic
Approved drug? Yes. US FDA (1971)
IUPAC Name Click here for help
(8R,9S,10R,13S,14S,17R)-17-acetyl-17-hydroxy-6,10,13-trimethyl-2,8,9,11,12,14,15,16-octahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-one
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INN number INN
1529 megestrol
Synonyms Click here for help
Chronopil | Magestin | Megace® | megestryl acetate
Database Links Click here for help
CAS Registry No. 3562-63-8 (source: PubChem)
GtoPdb PubChem SID 315661213
PubChem CID 19090
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Megestrol (links to external site)
Cat. No. HY-B1834