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Nitroxoline

4008-48-4C9H6N2O3190.158 g/mol

A monohydroxyquinoline in which the hydroxy group is positioned at C-8 with a nitro group trans to it at C-5. — ChEBI

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Identity & molecular properties

Source-linked values
CAS number4008-48-4ChEBI ↗
Molecular formulaC9H6N2O3ChEBI ↗
Molar mass190.158 g/molChEBI ↗
Monoisotopic mass190.03784 DaChEBI ↗
Formal charge0ChEBI ↗
ChEBI identifierCHEBI:67121ChEBI ↗

Cross-source molecular data

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Molar mass190.16 g/molPubChem ↗
Exact mass190.03784206 DaPubChem ↗
Computed XLogP2.1PubChem ↗
Topological polar surface area (Ų)78.9PubChem ↗
H-bond donors1PubChem ↗
H-bond acceptors4PubChem ↗
Rotatable bonds0PubChem ↗

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Names & structural identifiers

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nitroxoline
5-nitroquinolin-8-ol
RJIWZDNTCBHXAL-UHFFFAOYSA-N
O=[N+]([O-])c1ccc(O)c2ncccc12
InChI=1S/C9H6N2O3/c12-8-4-3-7(11(13)14)6-2-1-5-10-9(6)8/h1-5,12H

Names & synonyms

5-nitroquinolin-8-olnitroxolinanitroxolinum

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Classification & relationships

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Roles recorded in ChEBI

antimicrobial agentantibacterial agentantiinfective agentantifungal agentrenal agent

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Mass ↔ amount of substance

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Equivalent amount
0.00525878 mol

Uses 190.158 g/mol from ChEBI. Assumes the substance described by this record; no purity or concentration correction is applied.

Elemental composition

Theoretical mass fractions
C
Carbon · 9 atoms
56.85%
O
Oxygen · 3 atoms
25.24%
N
Nitrogen · 2 atoms
14.73%
H
Hydrogen · 6 atoms
3.18%

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Sources & record history

Checked 27 Sep 2026
EMBL-EBI ChEBI · CHEBI:67121

Release 255, 9 September 2026. ChEBI three-star (manually annotated) source entry. View original record ↗ · CC BY 4.0

NCBI PubChem · CID 19910 · retrieved 2026-09-27

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