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cucurbitine
Sign in to saveCucurbitin is an amino acid and a carboxypyrrolidine that is found in Cucurbita seeds. Cucurbitin causes degenerative changes in the reproductive organs of parasitic flatworms called flukes.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C5H10N2O2
- Molecular weight
- 130.15 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- (3R)-3-aminopyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid
- SMILES
- C1CNC[C@]1(C(=O)O)N
- InChIKey
- DWAKXSZUASEUHH-RXMQYKEDSA-N
- XLogP
- -3.8
- Polar surface area
- 75.4 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 3
- H-bond acceptors
- 4
- Formal charge
- 0
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Cucurbitin is an amino acid and a carboxypyrrolidine that is found in Cucurbita seeds. Cucurbitin causes degenerative changes in the reproductive organs of parasitic flatworms called flukes.
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cucurbitine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.