ornidazole

CHEBI:75176 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A C-nitro compound that is 5-nitroimidazole in which the hydrogens at positions 1 and 2 are replaced by 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyl and methyl groups, respectively. It is used in the treatment of susceptible protozoal infections and for the treatment of anaerobic bacterial infections. — 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

nitroimidazole antibioticARO:3004115

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

Label unavailable CHEBI:24780
Label unavailable CHEBI:35681
Label unavailable CHEBI:35716
Label unavailable CHEBI:36683
nitroimidazole antibiotic ARO:3004115

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C7H10ClN3O3
Charge	0
Average mass	219.628 Da
Monoisotopic mass	219.04107 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	IPWKIXLWTCNBKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

Cc1ncc([N+](=O)[O-])n1CC(O)CCl

InChI

InChI=1S/C7H10ClN3O3/c1-5-9-3-7(11(13)14)10(5)4-6(12)2-8/h3,6,12H,2,4H2,1H3

Also called

ornidazol (INN)— chebi
ornidazolum (INN)— chebi
1-chloro-3-(2-methyl-5-nitro-1N-imidazol-1-yl)propan-2-ol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-(2-hydroxy-3-chloropropyl)-2-methyl-5-nitroimidazole (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-(3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyl)-2-methyl-5-nitroimidazole (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Ro 7-0207 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
α-(Chlormethyl)-2-methyl-5-nitro-imidazol-1-aethanol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
α-(chloromethyl)-2-methyl-5-nitro-1H-imidazole-1-ethanol (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.

Drug registries

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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.

antiprotozoal drug CHEBI:35820
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
ARO	`ARO:3007114`	ornidazole	`antibioticmech:aro-91924bc338`	2026-08-30
CHEBI	`CHEBI:75176`	ornidazole	`antibioticmech:chebi-e9b38cb3ee`	2026-08-30

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
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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