ceforanide

CHEBI:3495 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A second-generation cephalosporin antibiotic with {[1-(carboxymethyl)-1H-tetrazol-5-yl]sulfanyl}methyl and 2-(aminomethyl)phenylacetamido groups at positions 3 and 7, respectively, of the cephem skeleton. It is effective against many coliforms, including Escherichia coli, Klebsiella, Enterobacter and Proteus, and most strains of Salmonella, Shigella, Hemophilus, Citrobacter and Arizona species. — 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

cephalosporinARO:0000032

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

cephalosporin CHEBI:23066
cephalosporin ARO:0000032

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C20H21N7O6S2
Charge	0
Average mass	519.565 Da
Monoisotopic mass	519.09947 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	SLAYUXIURFNXPG-CRAIPNDOSA-N

SMILES

[H][C@]12SCC(CSc3nnnn3CC(=O)O)=C(C(=O)O)N1C(=O)[C@@]2([H])NC(=O)Cc1ccccc1CN

InChI

InChI=1S/C20H21N7O6S2/c21-6-11-4-2-1-3-10(11)5-13(28)22-15-17(31)27-16(19(32)33)12(8-34-18(15)27)9-35-20-23-24-25-26(20)7-14(29)30/h1-4,15,18H,5-9,21H2,(H,22,28)(H,29,30)(H,32,33)/t15-,18-/m1/s1

Also called

ceforanido (INN)— chebi
ceforanidum (INN)— chebi
(6R,7R)-7-({[2-(aminomethyl)phenyl]acetyl}amino)-3-({[1-(carboxymethyl)-1H-tetrazol-5-yl]sulfanyl}methyl)-8-oxo-5-thia-1-azabicyclo[4.2.0]oct-2-ene-2-carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
(6R,7R)-7-[[2-[2-(aminomethyl)phenyl]acetyl]amino]-3-[[1-(carboxymethyl)tetrazol-5-yl]sulfanylmethyl]-8-oxo-5-thia-1-azabicyclo[4.2.0]oct-2-ene-2-carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
7-[O-(aminomethyl)phenylacetamido]-3-[[[1-(carboxymethyl)-1H-tetrazol-5-yl]thio]methyl]-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
7β-[2-(aminomethyl)phenyl]acetamido-3-{[1-(carboxymethyl)-1H-tetrazol-5-yl]sulfanyl}methyl-3,4-didehydrocepham-4-carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Ceforanide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
cephoranide (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.

Activity roles

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

antimicrobial agent CHEBI:33281
antibacterial drug CHEBI:36047

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:3009115`	ceforanide	`antibioticmech:aro-b37864fda2`	2026-08-30
CHEBI	`CHEBI:3495`	ceforanide	`antibioticmech:chebi-b9b9d577f8`	2026-08-30

Mechanism summary

Clinical status: APPROVED

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (ARO, CHEBI)
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-31 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-31 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
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Provenance

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

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