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.

Label unavailable CHEBI:23117
Label unavailable 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

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.

Activity roles

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

fungicide 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 (YAML).

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