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psoralen

chemical compound
Class type of: furanocoumarin Q417788

Facts

15 properties
Instance of
type of chemical entity
Subclass of
furanocoumarin[4]
Part of
psoralen synthase activity[5]
Has use
cross-linking reagent[6]
Boiling point
+362.6
Canonical SMILES
C1=CC(=O)OC2=CC3=C(C=CO3)C=C21[2]
Chemical formula
C₁₁H₆O₃[3]
Density
+1.389
Found in taxon
Ammi majus, Glehnia littoralis, Ficus carica, Dictamnus albus, Prangos lipskyi, Ruta graveolens, Dorstenia bryoniaefolia, Brosimum gaudichaudii, Heracleum mantegazzianum, Cullen drupaceum, Apium graveolens, Zanthoxylum americanum, Hoita macrostachya, Orbexilum onobrychis, Otholobium glandulosum, Bituminaria bituminosa, parsley, Pediomelum canescens, Cullen corylifolium, Orbexilum lupinellum, Foeniculum vulgare, Levisticum officinale, Ruta pinnata, Haplophyllum patavinum, Pastinaca sativa, Heracleum maximum, Tetradium daniellii, Heracleum persicum, Coronilla scorpioides, Angelica lucida, Thamnosma texana, Dictamnus dasycarpus, Ashitaba, Skimmia laureola, Ficus erecta var. beecheyana, Ruta corsica, Dystaenia takeshimana, Angelica dahurica, Peucedanum ruthenicum, Dorstenia psilurus, Prionosciadium thapsoides, Limonia acidissima, Hymenidium densiflorum, Peucedanum japonicum, Cullen plicatum, Ficus pumila, Dorstenia excentrica, Dorstenia lindeniana, citron, Dorstenia prorepens, Phebalium clavatum, Prangos tschimganica, Dorstenia elliptica, Heracleum lehmannianum, Seseli asperulum, Dorstenia heringeri, Coronilla vaginalis, Angelica pubescens, Heracleum grandiflorum, Melicope borbonica, Decatropis bicolor, Mitracarpus hirtus, Diplotaenia damavandica, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Trichocline sinuata, Brachyclados megalanthus, Heracleum leskovii, Amyris diatrypa, Amyris lineata, Angelica japonica, Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides, Angelica shikokiana, Trichocline caulescens, Brosimum acutifolium, Cryptocarya obovata, Ferulago lutea, Dorstenia bahiensis, Dorstenia barnimiana, Dorstenia contrajerva, Dorstenia drakena, Zanthoxylum mayu, Ficus hirta, Angelica gmelinii, Cullen tomentosum, Bituminaria morisiana, Dorstenia convexa, Dorstenia foetida, Fatoua pilosa, Feroniella lucida, Melicope barbigera, Tithonia diversifolia, Zanthoxylum beecheyanum, Aconitum habaense, Ficus simplicissima, Aconitum tanguticum, Zanthoxylum flavum, Ruta chalepensis, Ficus sycomorus, Zanthoxylum spinosum, Orbexilum lupinellus, Cullen obtusifolium, Heracleum lanatum, Daucus carota, Rhadinothamnus rudis, Cullen cinereum, Psoralea leucantha, Cullen lachnostachys, Cullen pustulatum, Bituminaria plumosa, Coronilla viminalis, Coronilla glauca, Psoralea subacaulis, Fatoua villosa, Prangos uloptera, Cullen corylifolia, Angelica archangelica, Leionema ambiens, Rhadinothamnus anceps, Hijmania turbinata, Moraceae, Dorstenia brasiliensis, Codonopsis pilosula[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
Has part(s)
oxygen, carbon[7][8]
Mass
+186.032
Melting point
+161
Native label
Psoralen
Refractive index
+1.667
Subject has role
anthelmintic, photosensitizer
🏷️ Also known as
en furo[2',3':7,6]coumarin en furo[4',5':6,7]coumarin en psoralen en furocoumarin en 3-(6-hydroxy-5-benzofuranyl)-2-propenoic acid delta-lactone en 6,7-furanocoumarin en 6-hydroxy-5-benzofuranacrylic acid delta-lactone en 7H-furo[3,2-g][1]benzopyran-7-one de Ficusin de Psoralene el ψωραλένιο el φουροβενζοπυρανόνη es Psoraleno fa پسورالن fi psoraleeni fr psoralène he פסוראלן it Psoraleni ja ソラレン ja プソラレン
🔖 Identifiers · 33
OpenAlex ID
C2781110370
CAS Registry Number
66-97-7
ChEBI ID
27616
ChEMBL ID
CHEMBL164660
ChemSpider ID
5964
DSSTOX compound identifier
DTXCID60138696
DSSTox substance ID
DTXSID00216205
DrugBank ID
DB18665
EC number
200-639-7
ECHA Substance Infocard ID
100.000.581
Freebase ID
/m/07qfmy
HSDB ID
3528
Show all 33 identifiers +21
Human Metabolome Database ID
HMDB0034272
InChI
InChI=1S/C11H6O3/c12-11-2-1-7-5-8-3-4-13-9(8)6-10(7)14-11/h1-6H
InChIKey
ZCCUUQDIBDJBTK-UHFFFAOYSA-N
KEGG ID
D08450
KNApSAcK ID
C00000297
MassBank accession ID
MSBNK-RIKEN-PR010228, MSBNK-Washington_State_Univ-BML00644, MSBNK-Washington_State_Univ-BML00655, MSBNK-Washington_State_Univ-BML00666, MSBNK-Washington_State_Univ-BML82015, MSBNK-Washington_State_Univ-BML82017, MSBNK-Kazusa-KZ000069
MeSH descriptor ID
D005363
MeSH tree code
D03.383.663.283.446.794.200, D03.633.100.150.446.794.200, D03.633.300.770.200
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2781110370
NMRShiftDB structure ID
10017714
NSC number
404562
Probes And Drugs ID
PD012057
PubChem CID
6199
Quora topic ID
Psoralen
Reaxys registry number
152784
Römpp online ID
RD-16-04819
SPLASH
splash10-0r2i-6900000000-276c6db470fc13777449, splash10-000i-0900000000-75211365e04f08273288, splash10-00lr-0900000000-fa9d08e8d5421ebeaa77, splash10-0f89-0900000000-bacd49139ec536fb55e7, splash10-052r-0940000000-7369219723ca3c7cb896, splash10-000i-0900000000-cde23d70ccf82e65b990, splash10-001r-0900000000-195d9e7e3b29cf95c327, splash10-0006-0009000000-192461acf5f040d64dca, splash10-052r-3900000000-eff7b2146482de5c7740
SureChEMBL ID
17835
UMLS CUI
C0016072
UNII
KTZ7ZCN2EX
UniChem compound ID
506965

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🔗 Connections
Found in taxon 86
Ficus carica, Foeniculum vulgare, parsley, Daucus carota, Pastinaca sativa, Apium graveolens, citron, Moraceae +78 more
Has part(s) 2
oxygen, carbon
Subject has role 2
anthelmintic, photosensitizer
Subclass of 1
furanocoumarin
Subtypes 1
trioxsalen
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Summary

psoralen is a type of chemical entity[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Medical Subject Headings. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Biosynthesis of Psoralen: Mechanism of a Cytochrome P450 Catalyzed Oxidative Bond Cleavage. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Psoralen and other linear furanocoumarins as phytoalexins in Glehnia littoralis. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Ficus carica; isolation and quantification of the photoactive components. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Coumarins and flavonoids ofDictamnus angustifolius. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Coumarins from the roots of Prangos lipskyi. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Essential Oil of Ruta graveolens L.. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Off-line supercritical fluid extraction—high resolution gas chromatography applied to the study of moraceae species. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Off-line supercritical fluid extraction—high resolution gas chromatography applied to the study of moraceae species. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Heracleum mantegazzianum growth phases and furocoumarin content. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Phenolic components of the unsaponifiable fraction of the lipids of Psorlea drupaceae. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . HPLC analysis of linear furocoumarins (psoralens) in healthy celery (Apium graveolens). wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . Antifungal constituents of northern prickly ash, Zanthoxylum americanum mill. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Furocoumarin Contents in the Vegetative Organs of Cultivated Psoralea Species. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . Furocoumarin Contents in the Vegetative Organs of Cultivated Psoralea Species. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13w ago · Adamrb12345 · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Density → {'unit': 'Q13147228', 'amount': '+1.389'}
    Melting point → {'unit': 'Q25267', 'amount': '+161'}
    Instance of → type of chemical entity
    Subclass of → furanocoumarin
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Found in taxon: Codonopsis pilosula, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1785942942558"
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