diphenylamine

CHEBI:4640 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

An aromatic amine containing two phenyl substituents. It has been used as a fungicide for the treatment of superficial scald in apples and pears, but is no longer approved for this purpose within the European Union. — 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.

CHEBI:33860 CHEBI:33860
CHEBI:50995 CHEBI:50995
CHEBI:87039 CHEBI:87039

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C12H11N
Charge	0
Average mass	169.227 Da
Monoisotopic mass	169.08915 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	DMBHHRLKUKUOEG-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

c1ccc(Nc2ccccc2)cc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C12H11N/c1-3-7-11(8-4-1)13-12-9-5-2-6-10-12/h1-10,13H

Also called

N-phenylaniline (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
(phenylamino)benzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
C6H5‒NH‒C6H5 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
DPA (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Diphenylamine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N,N-diphenylamine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-phenylbenzenamine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
anilinobenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:122-39-4
gmelin:67833
hmdb:HMDB0032562
kegg.compound:C11016
metacyc.compound:CPD-9937
pesticides:diphenylamine
ppdb:1335
reaxys:508755
wikipedia.en:Diphenylamine

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:24127 CHEBI:24127
CHEBI:35718 CHEBI:35718
CHEBI:86328 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:4640`	diphenylamine	`antibioticmech:chebi-952cda1904`	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

Provenance

Seeded by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.