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Pharmaceutical impurityDiphenhydramine HCl
Diphenhydramine HCl is listed in the pharmaceutical impurity collection under CAS 147-24-0. Its represented structure has formula C17H22ClNO and a calculated molecular weight of 291.82 g/mol.
2D chemical structure
Chemical identity
- Catalog name
- Diphenhydramine HCl
- Common name
- Diphenhydramine HCl
- Chemical name
- 2-benzhydryloxy-N,N-dimethylethanamine;hydrochloride
- CAS
- 147-24-0
- SMILES
- CN(C)CCOC(c1ccccc1)c1ccccc1.Cl
- InChI
- InChI=1S/C17H21NO.ClH/c1-18(2)13-14-19-17(15-9-5-3-6-10-15)16-11-7-4-8-12-16;/h3-12,17H,13-14H2,1-2H3;1H
- InChIKey
- PCHPORCSPXIHLZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Record ID: A8c83ac661b32
Computed properties
C17H22ClNO Molecular formula
291.822 g/molMolecular weight
291.139 DaMonoisotopic exact mass
12.47 ŲTopological polar surface area
3.776 Calculated LogP (Wildman–Crippen)
86.481 cm³/molMolar refractivity (Wildman–Crippen)
2 countHydrogen-bond acceptors
0 countHydrogen-bond donors
Descriptors are calculated from the displayed SMILES. Calculated LogP is not a measured partition coefficient or a pH-specific LogD. The SMILES contains 2 disconnected components. Calculations retain all represented components.
Molecular descriptor profile
Structural feature counts
Element composition
Radar scale: 0–100 percentile within 25,771 distinct represented structures in this release, using the midpoint rank for ties. Larger values indicate a higher descriptor rank, not greater safety or toxicity. Element counts include hydrogen and combine isotopes under each element.
Radar values and percentile reference
| Descriptor | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Molecular weight | 291.822 | 41.75 |
| Calculated LogP (Wildman–Crippen) | 3.776 | 75.23 |
| Topological polar surface area | 12.47 | 3.37 |
| Hydrogen-bond acceptors | 2 | 15.92 |
| Hydrogen-bond donors | 0 | 11.28 |
| Rotatable bonds (strict) | 6 | 69.73 |
Complete molecular descriptors
| Property | Calculated value | Unit / type |
|---|---|---|
| Molecular formula | C17H22ClNO | dimensionless |
| Molecular weight | 291.822 | g/mol |
| Monoisotopic exact mass | 291.139 | Da |
| Topological polar surface area | 12.47 | Ų |
| Calculated LogP (Wildman–Crippen) | 3.776 | dimensionless |
| Molar refractivity (Wildman–Crippen) | 86.481 | cm³/mol |
| Hydrogen-bond acceptors | 2 | count |
| Hydrogen-bond donors | 0 | count |
| Rotatable bonds (strict) | 6 | count |
| Heavy atoms | 20 | count |
| Heteroatoms | 3 | count |
| Rings | 2 | count |
| Aromatic rings | 2 | count |
| Aliphatic rings | 0 | count |
| Saturated rings | 0 | count |
| Aromatic heterocycles | 0 | count |
| Aliphatic heterocycles | 0 | count |
| Saturated heterocycles | 0 | count |
| Aromatic carbocycles | 2 | count |
| Aliphatic carbocycles | 0 | count |
| Fraction of sp³ carbon atoms | 0.2941 | fraction |
| Formal charge | 0 | e |
| Disconnected components | 2 | count |
| Isotopically specified atoms | 0 | count |
| Potential atom stereocenters | 0 | count |
| Unspecified atom stereocenters | 0 | count |
| Spiro atoms | 0 | count |
| Bridgehead atoms | 0 | count |
| Labute approximate surface area | 127.3397 | Ų |
| Valence electrons | 108 | count |
| Radical electrons | 0 | count |
| Bertz complexity | 433.3634 | index |
| Balaban J | 0 | index |
Ring categories overlap and should not be summed. No toxicity result, PDE, HBEL or acceptable intake is inferred from these descriptors.
Toxicological services and resources for Diphenhydramine HCl
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Other catalogue designations with the same represented structure
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Identity sources and calculation method
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