nabam

CHEBI:81934 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A dithiocarbamate salt that is the disodium salt of ethylenebis(dithiocarbamic acid). A fungicide, algicide and bactericide used on various crops including on cotton, capsicums, onions and rice crops, it is considered to be a carcinogen, so is not licensed for use within the European Union. Mixing nabam with zinc sulfate affords the fungicide zineb. — 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:38700 CHEBI:38700
CHEBI:83060 CHEBI:83060

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C4H6N2S4.2Na
Charge	0
Average mass	256.354 Da
Monoisotopic mass	255.92092 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	UQJQVUOTMVCFHX-UHFFFAOYSA-L

SMILES

S=C([S-])NCCNC(=S)[S-].[Na+].[Na+]

InChI

InChI=1S/C4H8N2S4.2Na/c7-3(8)5-1-2-6-4(9)10;;/h1-2H2,(H2,5,7,8)(H2,6,9,10);;/q;2*+1/p-2

Also called

Dithane A-40 (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Parzate (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Spring-bak (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
disodium ethane-1,2-diyldicarbamodithioate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1,2-ethanediylbiscarbamodithioic acid disodium salt (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Di-natrium-aethylenbisdithiocarbamat (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Dinatrium-(N,N'-aethylen-bis(dithiocarbamat)) (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N,N'-ethylene bis(dithiocarbamate de sodium) (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
disodium N,N'-1,2-ethanediylbis(carbamodithioate) (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
disodium N,N'-ethane-1,2-diyldicarbamodithioate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
disodium ethylene-1,2-bisdithiocarbamate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
disodium ethylenebis(dithiocarbamate) (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
nabame (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
sodium ethylenebis(dithiocarbamate) (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:142-59-6
hmdb:HMDB0031224
kegg.compound:C18748
patent:US1504404
patent:US2317765
pesticides:nabam
ppdb:479

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:86328 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:81934`	nabam	`antibioticmech:chebi-58eb45e704`	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.