butenafine

CHEBI:3238 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

Trimethylamine in which hydrogen atoms attached to different methyl groups are substituted by 1-naphthyl and 4-tert-butylphenyl groups. It is an inhibitor of squalene epoxidase, an enzyme responsible for the creation of sterols needed in fungal cell membranes, and is used as its hydrochloride salt for treatment of dermatological fungal 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

antibiotic without defined classificationARO:3000003

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

Label unavailable CHEBI:25477
Label unavailable CHEBI:32876
antibiotic without defined classification ARO:3000003

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C23H27N
Charge	0
Average mass	317.476 Da
Monoisotopic mass	317.21435 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	ABJKWBDEJIDSJZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CN(Cc1ccc(C(C)(C)C)cc1)Cc1cccc2ccccc12

InChI

InChI=1S/C23H27N/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

Also called

butenafinum (INN)— chebi
1-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-N-methyl-N-(naphthalen-1-ylmethyl)methanamine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
(4-tert-Butyl-benzyl)-methyl-naphthalen-1-ylmethyl-amine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
(4-tert-butylphenyl)-N-methyl-N-(naphthalen-1-ylmethyl)methanamine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
4-tert-butylbenzyl(methyl)(1-naphthalenemethyl)amine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Butenafine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-(p-tert-butylbenzyl)-N-methyl-1-naphthalenemethylamine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
butenafina (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.

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.

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
ARO	`ARO:3009173`	butenafine	`antibioticmech:aro-e73f50f1ef`	2026-08-30
CHEBI	`CHEBI:3238`	butenafine	`antibioticmech:chebi-a19fbfa560`	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.

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 2026-08-30 · 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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