ruxolitinib   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 5688

Synonyms: (R)-ruxolitinib | INC424 | INCB 18424 | INCB018424 | Jakafi® | Jakavi®
Approved drug PDB Ligand Immunopharmacology Ligand
ruxolitinib is an approved drug (FDA (2011), EMA (2012))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Ruxolitinib is a Type-1 kinase inhibitor and was first approved by the US FDA in 2011. Ruxolitinib has high potency against Janus kinases 1 and 2 (JAK1, JAK2), as well as against the related family member, tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) [3]. Inhibitory activity against JAK3 is only slightly reduced compared to the other three family kinases.
Marketed formulations may contain ruxolitinib phosphate (PubChem CID 25127112).
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Ligand Activity Visualisation Charts

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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 CDK toolkit. 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 4
Topological polar surface area 83.18
Molecular weight 306.16
XLogP 2.7
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0
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 N#CCC(n1ncc(c1)c1ncnc2c1cc[nH]2)C1CCCC1
Isomeric SMILES N#CC[C@@H](n1ncc(c1)c1ncnc2c1cc[nH]2)C1CCCC1
InChI InChI=1S/C17H18N6/c18-7-5-15(12-3-1-2-4-12)23-10-13(9-22-23)16-14-6-8-19-17(14)21-11-20-16/h6,8-12,15H,1-5H2,(H,19,20,21)/t15-/m1/s1
InChI Key HFNKQEVNSGCOJV-OAHLLOKOSA-N
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