captan

CHEBI:34608 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A dicarboximide that is 3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydrophthalimide in which the hydrogen attached to the nitrogen is replaced by a trichloromethyl group. A non-systemic fungicide introduced in the 1950s, it is widely used for the control of fungal diseases in fruits, vegetables, and ornamental crops. — 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:24897
Label unavailable CHEBI:33261
Label unavailable CHEBI:36683
phthalimide fungicide CHEBI:87198

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C9H8Cl3NO2S
Charge	0
Average mass	300.594 Da
Monoisotopic mass	298.93413 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	LDVVMCZRFWMZSG-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

O=C1C2CC=CCC2C(=O)N1SC(Cl)(Cl)Cl

InChI

InChI=1S/C9H8Cl3NO2S/c10-9(11,12)16-13-7(14)5-3-1-2-4-6(5)8(13)15/h1-2,5-6H,3-4H2

Also called

Amercide (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Bangton (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Captab (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Captadin (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Captaf (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Captanex (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Captex (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Hexacap (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Kaptan (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Malipur (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Merpan (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Neracid (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Orthocide (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Osocide (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Vanicide (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Venturin (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Vondcaptan (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Zenecal (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
2-[(trichloromethyl)sulfanyl]-3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-1H-isoindole-1,3(2H)-dione (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1,2,3,6-tetrahydro-N-(trichloromethylthio)phthalimide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3a,4,7,7a-Tetrahydro-2-((trichloromethyl)thio)-1H-isoindole-1,3(2H)-dione (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-N-(trichloromethanesulphenyl)phthalimide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ENT 26,538 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-(trichloromethylmercapto)-Δ4-tetrahydrophthalimide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-[(trichloromethyl)thio]tetrahydrophthalimide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-trichloromethylmercapto-4-cyclohexene-1,2-dicarboximide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-trichloromethylthio-3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydrophthalimide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-trichloromethylthiocyclohex-4-ene-1,2-dicarboximide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
SR 406 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
SR406 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
captane (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

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Activity roles

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

fungicide CHEBI:24127
antifungal agent CHEBI:35718
antifungal agrochemical CHEBI:86328

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:34608`	captan	`antibioticmech:chebi-d32ad37f0b`	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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