metronidazole hydrochloride

CHEBI:50687 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A hydrochloride salt resulting from the mixture of equimolar amounts of metronidazole and hydrogen chloride. — 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:36807

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C6H9N3O3.HCl
Charge	0
Average mass	207.617 Da
Monoisotopic mass	207.04107 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	FPTPAIQTXYFGJC-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

Cc1ncc([N+](=O)[O-])n1CCO.Cl

InChI

InChI=1S/C6H9N3O3.ClH/c1-5-7-4-6(9(11)12)8(5)2-3-10;/h4,10H,2-3H2,1H3;1H

Also called

Flagyl (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
2-(2-methyl-5-nitro-1H-imidazol-1-yl)ethanol hydrochloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Methyl-5-nitroimidazole-1-ethanol hydrochloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Methyl-5-nitroimidazole-1-ethanol monohydrochloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Metronidazole HCl (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

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.

cas:69198-10-3
reaxys:11001903

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.

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
antitrichomonal drug CHEBI:50685

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:50687`	metronidazole hydrochloride	`antibioticmech:chebi-936beab01f`	2026-08-30

Mechanism summary

Clinical status: APPROVED

Curation history

SEEDED_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 2026-09-10 · 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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