brilliant green cation

CHEBI:88176 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

An iminium ion that is the cationic component of the histological dye 'brilliant green'. — 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

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

Label unavailable CHEBI:35286

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C27H33N2
Charge	1
Average mass	385.575 Da
Monoisotopic mass	385.26383 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	HXCILVUBKWANLN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCN(CC)c1ccc(C(=C2C=CC(=[N+](CC)CC)C=C2)c2ccccc2)cc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C27H33N2/c1-5-28(6-2)25-18-14-23(15-19-25)27(22-12-10-9-11-13-22)24-16-20-26(21-17-24)29(7-3)8-4/h9-21H,5-8H2,1-4H3/q+1

Also called

4-{[4-(diethylamino)phenyl](phenyl)methylidene}-N,N-diethylcyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-iminium (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
brilliant green(1+) (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

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.

drugcentral:4665

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
CHEBI	`CHEBI:88176`	brilliant green cation	`antibioticmech:chebi-ff941b022c`	2026-08-30

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (CHEBI)
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

Provenance

Seeded by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record (YAML).

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