methyl 2,5-dichlorobenzoate

CHEBI:132299 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A methyl ester resulting from the formal condensation of the carboxy group of 2,5-dichlorobenzoic acid with methanol. It as used as a plant growth regulator and fungicide for grafting of grapevines. — 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:23697
Label unavailable CHEBI:25248

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C8H6Cl2O2
Charge	0
Average mass	205.04 Da
Monoisotopic mass	203.97448 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	SPJQBGGHUDNAIC-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

COC(=O)c1cc(Cl)ccc1Cl

InChI

InChI=1S/C8H6Cl2O2/c1-12-8(11)6-4-5(9)2-3-7(6)10/h2-4H,1H3

Also called

2,5-DCBME (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2,5-dichlorobenzoic acid methyl ester (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.

cas:2905-69-3
ppdb:1074
reaxys:2251582

Activity roles

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

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:132299`	methyl 2,5-dichlorobenzoate	`antibioticmech:chebi-a11e7abb6e`	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

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