Acridine orange
Athanor · official
C17H19N3 · 265.35 g/mol
IUPAC name: 2-N,2-N,7-N,7-N-tetramethylacridine-2,7-diamine
Also called basic orange 15, nucleic acid stain
Names and identifiers
- IUPAC name
- 2-N,2-N,7-N,7-N-tetramethylacridine-2,7-diamine
- Synonyms
- basic orange 15, nucleic acid stain, SCHEMBL12647016
- Molecular formula
- C17H19N3
- Empirical formula
- C17H19N3
- Molecular weight
- 265.35 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 265.15790
- CAS number
- 494-38-2
- PubChem CID
- 15461421
- Canonical SMILES
- CN(C)C1=CC2=CC3=C(C=CC(=C3)N(C)C)N=C2C=C1
- Isomeric SMILES
- CN(C)C1=CC2=CC3=C(C=CC(=C3)N(C)C)N=C2C=C1
- InChI
- InChI=1S/C17H19N3/c1-19(2)14-5-7-16-12(10-14)9-13-11-15(20(3)4)6-8-17(13)18-16/h5-11H,1-4H3
- InChIKey
- FQAUZWXDUFOPPT-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- Molfile
Names, InChI and the identifiers from PubChem, retrieved 2026-10-14.
Calculated
- Heavy atoms
- 20
- Rings
- 3
- Aromatic rings
- 3
- Fraction sp³ carbons (Fsp3)
- 0.24
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 3
- Rotatable bonds
- 2
- TPSA (Ų)
- 19.4
- Formal charge
- 0
- XLogP3
- 3.8 PubChem
- Complexity
- 298 PubChem
- Stereocenters
- None
- Double-bond geometry
- None specified
- Point group
- C2 of one 3D conformer with its hydrogens, by Athanor’s engine (as in the app)
Elemental analysis
- C76.95%
- H7.22%
- N15.84%
Isotope pattern
Each peak is a nominal mass with its abundance-weighted exact mass, as a percentage of the tallest, from IUPAC natural isotope abundances.
Computed from the structure with RDKit 2026.09 when this page was built, beside PubChem's own computed values from its record; where the two differ, both are shown.
Predicted
- log P
- 3.52 Crippen (Wildman and Crippen 1999)
- log S (water solubility)
- -4.09 ESOL (Delaney 2004), log mol/L
- Synthetic accessibility
- 2.14 SA score, 1 easy to 10 hard (Ertl and Schuffenhauer 2009)
Drug-likeness: Lipinski’s rule of five
- Molecular weight ≤ 500: 265.36
- log P ≤ 5 (Crippen): 3.52
- H-bond donors ≤ 5: 0
- H-bond acceptors ≤ 10: 3
Passes all four rules.
¹³C NMR shifts, predicted
Predictions, not measurements; each names its method. A measured log P, where a source reports one, is under Physical properties.
Safety
No GHS hazard classification was found in the sources.
Always read the supplier’s safety data sheet before working with it.
Literature
Reading PubChem, OpenAlex and GSRS…
Bioactivity
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References
- ·Calculated values: computed by Athanor with RDKit 2026.09 from the structure.
- ·Literature on PubChem
Data last updated 2026-10-14.