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picloxydine
Sign in to savePicloxydine (trade name Vitabact) is a bisbiguanide antiseptic used in eye drops. It is structurally similar to chlorhexidine.
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Within Vinony's link graph, picloxydine is referenced by 21 other articles, and connects out to infection, neomycin and medication.
It sits within the topics 4-Chlorophenyl compounds, Antiseptics and Biguanides.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C20H24Cl2N10
- Molecular weight
- 475.4 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 1-N',4-N'-bis[N'-(4-chlorophenyl)carbamimidoyl]piperazine-1,4-dicarboximidamide
- SMILES
- C1CN(CCN1/C(=N/C(=NC2=CC=C(C=C2)Cl)N)/N)/C(=N\C(=NC3=CC=C(C=C3)Cl)N)/N
- InChIKey
- YNCLPFSAZFGQCD-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 1.8
- Polar surface area
- 160 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 4
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Max clinical phase
- Phase 2
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
- Indications
- eye infection
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 474.156
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- canonical SMILES
- C1CN(CCN1C(=NC(=NC2=CC=C(C=C2)Cl)N)N)C(=NC(=NC3=CC=C(C=C3)Cl)N)N
- chemical formula
- C₂₀H₂₄Cl₂N₁₀
- isomeric SMILES
- C1N(CCN(C1)/C(=N/C(=NC2=CC=C(C=C2)Cl)N)/N)/C(=N/C(=NC3=CC=C(C=C3)Cl)N)/N
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Encyclopedic overview
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Picloxydine (trade name Vitabact) is a bisbiguanide antiseptic used in eye drops. It is structurally similar to chlorhexidine.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “picloxydine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.