metam

CHEBI:141319 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A member of the class of dithiocarbamic acids that is dithiocarbamic acid in which a hydrogen attached to the amino group has been replaced by a methyl group. It is used (most widely as the corresponding sodium salt, metam-sodium) as an agricultural pesticide, mainly as a broad spectrum soil fumigant for the control of weeds, nematodes, soil-borne insects and fungi. — 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:39190
Label unavailable CHEBI:78787

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C2H5NS2
Charge	0
Average mass	107.203 Da
Monoisotopic mass	106.98634 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	HYVVJDQGXFXBRZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CNC(=S)S

InChI

InChI=1S/C2H5NS2/c1-3-2(4)5/h1H3,(H2,3,4,5)

Also called

methylcarbamodithioic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Dithiokohlensaeure-methylamid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Methyl-dithiocarbamidsaeure (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-methyldithiocarbamic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
methan (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
methyl-dithiocarbamic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
methyldithiocarbamate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
methyldithiocarbaminic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
métam (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.

profungicide CHEBI:136645

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:141319`	metam	`antibioticmech:chebi-bb031231d6`	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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