General
Preferred name
Butylene Glycol
Synonyms
1,3-BUTANEDIOL ()
P&D ID
PD085648
CAS
6290-03-5
107-88-0
24621-61-2
Tags
available
drug
Drug Status
approved
experimental
Structure
Probe scores
P&D probe-likeness score
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Structure formats
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Description
(extracted from source data)
DESCRIPTION 1,3-Butanediol, an orally active ethanol dimer providing a source of calories for human nutrition. 1,3-Butanediol administeration can stimulate the biosynthesis of the ketone body, ¦Â-hydroxybutyrate (¦ÂHB). 1,3-Butanediol has cerebral protective and hypoglycaemic effect[1][2][3].
PRICE 29
DESCRIPTION 1,3-Butanediol (BD) is a ketogenic substance. Ketone bodies are essential energy substrates in the absence of exogenous nutrients, and more recently, they have been suggested to prevent disease and improve longevity.
Compound Sets
4
DrugBank
DrugBank Approved Drugs
MedChem Express Bioactive Compound Library
Selleckchem Bioactive Compound Library
External IDs
31
Properties
(calculated by RDKit )
Molecular Weight
90.07
Hydrogen Bond Acceptors
2
Hydrogen Bond Donors
2
Rotatable Bonds
2
Ring Count
0
Aromatic Ring Count
0
cLogP
-0.25
TPSA
40.46
Fraction CSP3
1.0
Chiral centers
1.0
Largest ring
0.0
QED
0.49
Structural alerts
0
No structural alerts detected
Custom attributes
(extracted from source data)
Target
Endogenous Metabolite
Pathway
Metabolic Enzyme/Protease
Source data