Sodium nitriteProduct ingredient for Nitrous acid
- Name
- Sodium nitrite
- Drug Entry
- Nitrous acid
Nitrous acid (as sodium nitrite) is used as part of an intravenous mixture with sodium thiosulfate to treat cyanide poisoning. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, a list of the most important medications needed in a basic health system. There is also research to investigate its applicability towards treatments for heart attacks, brain aneurysms, pulmonary hypertension in infants, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.
- Accession Number
- DBSALT002657
- Structure
- Synonyms
- Natrium nitrit / Nitrite de sodium / Nitrito sodico
- External IDs
- INS NO.250 / INS-250
- UNII
- M0KG633D4F
- CAS Number
- 7632-00-0
- Weight
- Average: 68.9953
Monoisotopic: 68.982672924 - Chemical Formula
- NNaO2
- InChI Key
- LPXPTNMVRIOKMN-UHFFFAOYSA-M
- InChI
- InChI=1S/HNO2.Na/c2-1-3;/h(H,2,3);/q;+1/p-1
- IUPAC Name
- sodium nitrite
- SMILES
- [Na+].[O-]N=O
- External Links
- KEGG Drug
- D05865
- ChemSpider
- 22689
- ChEBI
- 78870
- ChEMBL
- CHEMBL93268
- PharmGKB
- PA166115361
- Wikipedia
- Sodium_nitrite
- Predicted Properties
Property Value Source logP 0.17 Chemaxon pKa (Strongest Basic) -3.5 Chemaxon Physiological Charge 0 Chemaxon Hydrogen Acceptor Count 2 Chemaxon Hydrogen Donor Count 0 Chemaxon Polar Surface Area 52.49 Å2 Chemaxon Rotatable Bond Count 0 Chemaxon Refractivity 7.6 m3·mol-1 Chemaxon Polarizability 2.44 Å3 Chemaxon Number of Rings 0 Chemaxon Bioavailability 1 Chemaxon Rule of Five Yes Chemaxon Ghose Filter No Chemaxon Veber's Rule No Chemaxon MDDR-like Rule No Chemaxon