azathioprine   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 7120

Synonyms: Azasan® | BW-57-322 | Imuran® | Jayempi®
Approved drug Immunopharmacology Ligand
azathioprine is an approved drug (FDA (1968), EMA (2021))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Azathioprine is an immunosuppressive antimetabolite. The active drug is believed to be mercaptopurine.
Marketed formulations may contain azathioprine sodium (PubChem CID 23678403).
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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 1
Rotatable bonds 3
Topological polar surface area 143.4
Molecular weight 277.04
XLogP 0.67
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 Cn1cnc(c1Sc1ncnc2c1nc[nH]2)N(=O)=O
Isomeric SMILES Cn1cnc(c1Sc1ncnc2c1nc[nH]2)N(=O)=O
InChI InChI=1S/C9H7N7O2S/c1-15-4-14-7(16(17)18)9(15)19-8-5-6(11-2-10-5)12-3-13-8/h2-4H,1H3,(H,10,11,12,13)
InChI Key LMEKQMALGUDUQG-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Classification Click here for help
Compound class Synthetic organic
Approved drug? Yes (FDA (1968), EMA (2021))
Approved drug? Yes. FDA (1968)  |  EMA (2021)
WHO Essential Medicine WHO Essential Medicines List (EML) (23rd List, 2023). Access PDF version.
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Is prodrug? Yes
Active form mercaptopurine
IUPAC Name Click here for help
6-[(1-methyl-4-nitro-1H-imidazol-5-yl)sulfanyl]-9H-purine
International Nonproprietary Names Click here for help
INN number INN
1291 azathioprine
Synonyms Click here for help
Azasan® | BW-57-322 | Imuran® | Jayempi®
Database Links Click here for help
BitterDB Ligand 56
CAS Registry No. 446-86-6
ChEMBL Ligand CHEMBL1542
DrugBank Ligand DB00993
DrugCentral Ligand 269
GtoPdb PubChem SID 178103697
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PubChem CID 2265
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MedChemExpress
Azathioprine (links to external site)
Cat. No. HY-B0256
Azathioprine (Standard) (links to external site)
Cat. No. HY-B0256R