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Khellin

82-02-0C14H12O5260.245 g/mol

A furanochrome in which the basic tricyclic skeleton is substituted at positions 4 and 9 with methoxy groups and at position 7 with a methyl group. A major constituent of the plant Ammi visnaga it is a herbal folk medicine used for various illnesses, its main effect being as a vasodilator. — ChEBI

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Identity & molecular properties

Source-linked values
CAS number82-02-0ChEBI ↗
Molecular formulaC14H12O5ChEBI ↗
Molar mass260.245 g/molChEBI ↗
Monoisotopic mass260.06847 DaChEBI ↗
Formal charge0ChEBI ↗
ChEBI identifierCHEBI:6133ChEBI ↗

Cross-source molecular data

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Molar mass260.24 g/molPubChem ↗
Exact mass260.06847348 DaPubChem ↗
Computed XLogP2.3PubChem ↗
Topological polar surface area (Ų)57.9PubChem ↗
H-bond donors0PubChem ↗
H-bond acceptors5PubChem ↗
Rotatable bonds2PubChem ↗

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Names & structural identifiers

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khellin
4,9-dimethoxy-7-methyl-5H-furo[3,2-g]chromen-5-one
HSMPDPBYAYSOBC-UHFFFAOYSA-N
COc1c2occc2c(OC)c2c(=O)cc(C)oc12
InChI=1S/C14H12O5/c1-7-6-9(15)10-11(16-2)8-4-5-18-12(8)14(17-3)13(10)19-7/h4-6H,1-3H3

Names & synonyms

4,9-dimethoxy-7-methyl-5H-furo[3,2-g]chromen-5-onekhellinekhellinumquelina

Names are supplied by ChEBI. Trade names and related synonyms may describe a broader product context.

Classification & relationships

ChEBI ontology

Roles recorded in ChEBI

bronchodilator agentcardiovascular drugvasodilator agentanti-asthmatic agent

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Mass ↔ amount of substance

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Equivalent amount
0.00384253 mol

Uses 260.245 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 · 14 atoms
64.61%
O
Oxygen · 5 atoms
30.74%
H
Hydrogen · 12 atoms
4.65%

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Research & patent references

Selected source associations
Fluorometric determination of khellin in human urine and serum by high-performance liquid chromatography using postcolumn photoirradiation. ↗Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry · 2003 Jul · PMID 12880095
Computational study of khellin excited states and photobinding to DNA. ↗Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2009 Aug · PMID 19639121

Sources & record history

Checked 27 Sep 2026
EMBL-EBI ChEBI · CHEBI:6133

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

NCBI PubChem · CID 3828 · retrieved 2026-09-27

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