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33999

Rifaximin

VETRANAL®, analytical standard

Synonym(s):

4-Deoxy-4′-methylpyrido[1′,2′-1,2]imidazo[5,4-c]rifamycin SV, Rifacol

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C43H51N3O11
CAS Number:
80621-81-4
Molecular Weight:
785.88
NACRES:
NA.24
PubChem Substance ID:
329754738
UNSPSC Code:
41116107
MDL number:
MFCD00864973

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Product Name

Rifaximin, VETRANAL®, analytical standard

InChI

1S/C43H51N3O11/c1-19-14-16-46-27(18-19)44-32-29-30-37(49)25(7)39-31(29)40(51)43(8,57-39)56-17-15-26(54-9)22(4)28(42(53)55-10)23(5)36(48)24(6)35(47)20(2)12-11-13-21(3)41(52)45-33(34(32)46)38(30)50/h11-18,20,22-24,26,28,35-36,47-50H,1-10H3,(H,45,52)/b12-11+,17-15+,21-13-/t20-,22+,23-,24-,26+,28+,35-,36-,43+/m1/s1

SMILES string

CO[C@H]1\C=C\O[C@@]2(C)Oc3c(C)c(O)c4c(O)c(NC(=O)C(C)=C\C=C\[C@@H](C)[C@@H](O)[C@@H](C)[C@H](O)[C@H](C)[C@H]([C@H]1C)C(=O)OC)c5c(nc6cc(C)ccn56)c4c3C2=O

InChI key

HIYLTQREEOINNF-HTEWPBCCSA-N

grade

analytical standard

product line

VETRANAL®

shelf life

limited shelf life, expiry date on the label

technique(s)

HPLC: suitable
gas chromatography (GC): suitable

application(s)

forensics and toxicology
pharmaceutical (small molecule)

format

neat

Quality Level

100

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General description

Chemical structure: macrolide

Legal Information

VETRANAL is a registered trademark of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

wgk

WGK 3

ppe

Eyeshields, Gloves, type N95 (US)

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Rifaximin may have a dramatic effect on hepatic encephalopathy.
Christopher Lamb et al.
Clinical medicine (London, England), 12(5), 489-490 (2012-10-30)
Rosacea and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth: prevalence and response to rifaximin.
Leonard B Weinstock et al.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 68(5), 875-876 (2013-04-23)
Vishesh Kothary et al.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 57(2), 811-817 (2012-11-28)
Escherichia coli is implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Rifaximin, a nonabsorbable derivative of rifampin effective against E. coli, improves symptoms in mild-to-moderate IBD. However, rifaximin resistance can develop in a single step in vitro. We examined
E Mattila et al.
Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics, 37(1), 122-128 (2012-10-26)
Clostridium difficile can cause severe antibiotic-associated colitis. Conventional treatments with metronidazole and vancomycin improve symptoms, but after discontinuation of treatment, C. difficile infection (CDI) recurs in a number of patients. Rifaximin is a rifamycin-based non-systemic antibiotic that has effect against
Jiannis Vlachogiannakos et al.
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology, 28(3), 450-455 (2012-12-12)
Cirrhotic patients are predisposed to intestinal bacterial overgrowth with translocation of bacterial products which may deteriorate liver hemodynamics. Having shown that short-term administration of rifaximin improves liver hemodynamics in decompensated cirrhosis, we conducted this study to investigate the effect of
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