3,6-diaminoacridine

CHEBI:8452 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

An aminoacridine that is acridine that is substituted by amino groups at positions 3 and 6. A slow-acting bacteriostat that is effective against many Gram-positive bacteria (but ineffective against spores), its salts were formerly used for treatment of burns and infected wounds. — ChEBI

Machine-generated and unreviewed. Identity, structure and cross-references come straight from ChEBI's and CARD's own data; no curator has signed off on this record yet.

Classification

disinfecting agents and antisepticsARO:3005386

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

Label unavailable CHEBI:51803
disinfecting agents and antiseptics ARO:3005386

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C13H11N3
Charge	0
Average mass	209.252 Da
Monoisotopic mass	209.0953 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	WDVSHHCDHLJJJR-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

Nc1ccc2cc3ccc(N)cc3nc2c1

InChI

InChI=1S/C13H11N3/c14-10-3-1-8-5-9-2-4-11(15)7-13(9)16-12(8)6-10/h1-7H,14-15H2

Also called

proflavina (INN)— chebi
proflavine (INN)— chebi
proflavinum (INN)— chebi
acridine-3,6-diamine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2,8-Diaminoacridine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3,6-acridinediamine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Proflavin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
diaminoacridine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— aro
proflavin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— aro

Cross-references

Identifiers for this same structure in other resources. An accession that lands on two different structures in this corpus is withheld from both rather than shown here, since it names at most one of them.

Drug registries

Identifiers that name a drug rather than a structure. One of these can cover a parent compound, its salts and its stereoisomers, which this corpus keeps as separate records, so it is not an equivalence of structure.

Patents and articles

Documents about this compound. A patent covers a class and an article covers a topic; neither identifies a structure.

wikipedia.en:Proflavine

Activity roles

Every antimicrobial role a source asserts for this compound — the unreduced evidence behind its antimicrobial_class.

antibacterial agent CHEBI:33282

Source concepts

Every upstream concept that resolved to this record. The merge is the product: this is what shows ChEBI and CARD are describing the same structure.

Upstream concepts merged into this record
Source	Native ID	Label	Minted CURIE	Version
ARO	`ARO:3007532`	proflavine	`antibioticmech:aro-2c724d05ff`	2026-08-30
CHEBI	`CHEBI:8452`	3,6-diaminoacridine	`antibioticmech:chebi-19bcea5610`	2026-08-30

Molecular targets

The molecular entity or process this compound acts on. Each target carries evidence — this is a mechanistic claim, not a classification.

Replicase polyprotein 1ab VIRAL_PROTEIN MEASURED_TARGET_ASSOCIATION

BindingDB quantitative measurement in the named target organism; source assay descriptions and identifiers are retained per measurement. Evidence status: PRIMARY_EVIDENCE. Source: BINDINGDB 2026-09 (retrieved 2026-08-31).

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 NCBITaxon:2697049

Quantitative measurements
Type	Reported value	Assay	BindingDB IDs	Reference
IC50	830 nM	Hit profiling assay without DTT Primary assay principle based on quenched FRET peptide substrate of SARS-CoV-2 3CL-Pro (lhs). Inhibiting compounds reduce fluorescence signal relative to DMSO controls. Hit profiling using X-ray. Substrate turnover was directly proportional to enzyme concentrations up to 60 nM and assay incubation times up to 15 minutes post substrate addition.	`RSID 902206` `assay 9114_1` `monomer 12590`	`DOI:10.1101/2020.12.16.422677`

Organism-specific examples
Protein	Gene	Organism	Entry
Replicase polyprotein 1ab `UniProtKB:P0DTD1` BindingDB target chain 1	—	Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 `NCBITaxon:2697049`	REVIEWED

DOI:10.1101/2020.12.16.422677 (BindingDB literature-curated quantitative target measurement; source value, assay text, reaction-set ID, and target organism retained.)

Curation history

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Provenance

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