5-Hydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid

Chemical Properties

light yellow to beige crystalline powder

Uses

5-Hydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid was used in HPLC-amperometric detection of serotonin in plasma, platelets and urine.

Uses

• ;Reactant for preparation of indole C5-O-substituted seco-cyclopropylindole analogs as potential anticancer agents• ;Reactant for microwave combinatorial synthesis of indolic arylpiperazine derivatives as ligands for 5-HT1A, 5-HT2A, and 5-HT2C receptors1• ;Reactant for preparation of melanins as novel nature-inspired radioprotectors2• ;Reactant for preparation of 5-Hydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid amides as histamine-3 receptor inverse agonists for the treatment of obesity3• ;Reactant for preparation of conformationally constrained peptidomimetic inhibitors of signal

Uses

A competitive antagonist of potentiation by glycine at the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors that have been linked to neuronal death, assiciated to such afflictions as stroke and epilepsy.

Definition

ChEBI: 5-Hydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid is an indolyl carboxylic acid.

General Description

5-Hydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid on oxidation with KMnO₄ yields pyrrole-2,3,5-tricarboxylic acid.