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.

Label unavailable CHEBI:33860
Label unavailable CHEBI:50995
bridged diphenyl fungicide 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

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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wikipedia.en:Diphenylamine

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: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
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

Provenance

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