ethylmercuric chloride

CHEBI:152058 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A highly toxic organomercury compound which is used as a fungicide for treating seeds. — 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:23117 CHEBI:23117
CHEBI:25706 CHEBI:25706

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C2H5ClHg
Charge	0
Average mass	265.105 Da
Monoisotopic mass	265.97862 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	QWUGXIXRFGEYBD-UHFFFAOYSA-M

SMILES

C[CH2][Hg][Cl]

InChI

InChI=1S/C2H5.ClH.Hg/c1-2;;/h1H2,2H3;1H;/q;;+1/p-1

Also called

Ceresan (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Cryptodine (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Emcon D (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Ganozan (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Granosan (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Granozan (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
chloro(ethyl)mercury (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
C2H5HgCl (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
EtHgCl (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
chlorido(ethanido)mercury (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
chlorido(ethyl)mercury (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
chloroethylmercury (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethyl mercury chloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethylmercury chloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethylmercury(2+) chloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethylmercury(II) chloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
monoethylmercury chloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:107-27-7
pesticides:ethylmercury_chloride
reaxys:4123092

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:24127 CHEBI:24127

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:152058`	ethylmercuric chloride	`antibioticmech:chebi-6946fd9c42`	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.