haemin
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Hemin (haemin; ferric chloride heme) is an iron-containing porphyrin with chlorine that can be formed from a heme group, such as heme B found in the hemoglobin of human blood.
Key facts
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- Drug.Watchedfields
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- Drug.verifiedrevid
- 396492199
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- Hemin.svg
- Drug.image_class
- skin-invert-image
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- Hemin edit1.jpg
- Drug.routes_of_administration
- Intravenous infusion
- Drug.legal_CA
- Rx-only
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- /Schedule D
- Drug.legal_US
- Rx-only
- Drug.CAS_number
- 16009-13-5
- Drug.ATC_prefix
- B06
- Drug.ATC_suffix
- AB01
- Drug.PubChem
- 5318002
- Drug.ChemSpiderID
- 21160444
- Drug.ChEBI
- 50385
- Drug.KEGG
- D10003
- Drug.UNII
- 743LRP9S7N
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 651.146145684
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- chemical formula
- C₃₄H₃₂ClFeN₄O₄
- canonical SMILES
- CC1=C(C2=CC3=C(C(=C([N-]3)C=C4C(=C(C(=N4)C=C5C(=C(C(=N5)C=C1[N-]2)C=C)C)C=C)C)C)CCC(=O)O)CCC(=O)O.[Cl-].[Fe+3]
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Chemistry
- Pharmacological use
- History of isolation
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Hemin (haemin; ferric chloride heme) is an iron-containing porphyrin with chlorine that can be formed from a heme group, such as heme B found in the hemoglobin of human blood.
==Chemistry== Hemin is protoporphyrin IX containing a ferric iron (Fe3+) ion with a coordinating chloride ligand.
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