Proflavine

Proflavine

Names
IUPAC name acridine-3,6-diamine
Identifiers
CAS Registry Number	92-62-6 Y
ChEBI	CHEBI:8452 Y
ChEMBL	ChEMBL55400 Y
ChemSpider	6832 Y
DrugBank	DB01123 Y
InChI InChI=1S/C13H11N3/c14-10-3-1-8-5-9-2-4-11(15)7-13(9)16-12(8)6-10/h1-7H,14-15H2 Y Key: WDVSHHCDHLJJJR-UHFFFAOYSA-N Y InChI=1/C13H11N3/c14-10-3-1-8-5-9-2-4-11(15)7-13(9)16-12(8)6-10/h1-7H,14-15H2 Key: WDVSHHCDHLJJJR-UHFFFAOYAC
Jmol-3D images	Image
KEGG	C11181 Y
PubChem	7099
SMILES n1c3c(cc2c1cc(N)cc2)ccc(c3)N
UNII	CY3RNB3K4T Y
Properties
Molecular formula	C13H11N3
Molar mass	209.25 g·mol−1
Except where noted otherwise, data is given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C (77 °F), 100 kPa)
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Proflavine (pron. pro-fla¢vin), also called proflavin and diaminoacridine and bate na bina, is an acriflavine derivative, a disinfectant bacteriostatic against many gram-positive bacteria. It has been used in the form of the dihydrochloride and hemisulfate salts as a topical antiseptic, and was formerly used as a urinary antiseptic.

Proflavine is also known to have a mutagenic effect on DNA by intercalating between nucleic acid base pairs. It differs from most other mutagenic components by causing basepair-deletions or basepair-insertions and not substitutions.

Proflavine absorbs strongly in the blue region at 445 nm (in water at pH 7) with molar extinction coefficient of c. 40,000^[1]

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