butenafine hydrochloride

CHEBI:31325 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

The hydrochloride salt of butenafine. An inhibitor of squalene epoxidase, an enzyme responsible for the creation of sterols needed in fungal cell membranes, it is used for treatment of dermatological fungal infections. — ChEBI

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Classification

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Label unavailable CHEBI:36807
Label unavailable CHEBI:47704

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C23H27N.HCl
Charge	0
Average mass	353.937 Da
Monoisotopic mass	353.19103 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	LJBSAUIFGPSHCN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CN(Cc1ccc(C(C)(C)C)cc1)Cc1cccc2ccccc12.Cl

InChI

InChI=1S/C23H27N.ClH/c1-23(2,3)21-14-12-18(13-15-21)16-24(4)17-20-10-7-9-19-8-5-6-11-22(19)20;/h5-15H,16-17H2,1-4H3;1H

Also called

1-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-N-methyl-N-(naphthalen-1-ylmethyl)methanamine hydrochloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
(4-tert-butylphenyl)-N-methyl-N-(naphthalen-1-ylmethyl)methanaminium chloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
4-tert-butylbenzyl(methyl)(1-naphthalenemethyl)amine hydrochloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Butenafine hydrochloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-(p-tert-butylbenzyl)-N-methyl-1-naphthalenemethylamine hydrochloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
butenafine 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.

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.

antifungal drug CHEBI:86327

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:31325`	butenafine hydrochloride	`antibioticmech:chebi-d222043752`	2026-08-30

Mechanism summary

Mode of action: ERGOSTEROL_PATHWAY_INHIBITION host shared target — Assigned from ChEBI role CHEBI:59285 (EC 1.14.13.132 (squalene monooxygenase) inhibitor). ChEBI asserts the role on the compound. The target it names is one the host has too, so the mechanism is true but is not evidence of selectivity — see mode_of_action_target_scope. Not a curator's mechanistic review.
Clinical status: APPROVED

Curation history

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Provenance

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