2-chloroacetamide

CHEBI:234507 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A monocarboxylic acid amide that is acetamide substituted by a chloro group at position 2. — 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:140324
Label unavailable CHEBI:29347
Label unavailable CHEBI:36683
Label unavailable CHEBI:83628

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C2H4ClNO
Charge	0
Average mass	93.513 Da
Monoisotopic mass	92.99814 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	VXIVSQZSERGHQP-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

NC(=O)CCl

InChI

InChI=1S/C2H4ClNO/c3-1-2(4)5/h1H2,(H2,4,5)

Also called

Microcide Mergal AF (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
KM 101 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
KM 101 (fungicide) (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
alpha-chloroacetamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
chloracetamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
chloroacetamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
α-chloroacetamide (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.

Patents and articles

Documents about this compound. A patent covers a class and an article covers a topic; neither identifies a structure.

wikipedia.en:Chloroacetamide

Activity roles

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

antimicrobial cosmetic preservative CHEBI:172949
fungicide CHEBI:24127
antimicrobial agent CHEBI:33281

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:234507`	2-chloroacetamide	`antibioticmech:chebi-8ce3cb7e29`	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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