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cetrimonium
Sign in to saveAlso known as Cetrimonium cation, Cetrimonium ion, Cetyl-Trimethyl-Ammonium, Cetyltrimethylammonium, Cetyltrimethylammonium cation, Cetyltrimethylammonium ion, Hexadecyltrimethylammonium, Hexadecyltrimethylammonium cation
Cetrimonium, cetyl trimethylammonium, or hexadecyltrimethylammonium is a quaternary ammonium cation whose salts are used as antiseptics:
Chemical data
- Formula
- C19H42N+
- Molecular weight
- 284.5 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- hexadecyl(trimethyl)azanium
- SMILES
- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC[N+](C)(C)C
- InChIKey
- RLGQACBPNDBWTB-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 8
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 1
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Max clinical phase
- Phase 2
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Research
3,040 papers- Preparation of genomic DNA from bacteria.Current protocols in molecular biology · 2001
- Cetrimonium bromide promotes the clearance of lipids by activating the TFEB-mediated autophagosome-lysosome pathway in hepatic cells.Biochemistry and cell biology = Biochimie et biologie cellulaire · 2021
- Cetrimonium Bromide Patch Test Positivity Is Found With a High Frequency in a Cohort of Patients With Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia.Dermatitis : contact, atopic, occupational, drug · 2024
- Modelling cetrimonium micelles as 4-OH cinnamate carriers targeting a hydrated iron oxide surface.Journal of colloid and interface science · 2022
- Cationic Electrophoresis.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2019
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- quaternary ammonium cation
- Mass
- 284.332
- Has use
- detergent
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- canonical SMILES
- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC[N+](C)(C)C
- chemical formula
- C₁₉H₄₂N⁺
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Encyclopedic overview
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Cetrimonium, cetyl trimethylammonium, or hexadecyltrimethylammonium is a quaternary ammonium cation whose salts are used as antiseptics: Cetrimonium bromide 250px Cetrimonium chloride 250px
They have the ATC codes (as skin antiseptics) and (as throat antiseptics). ==References==
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