NK372135A

CHEBI:66631 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A dinitrile that is butanedinitrile substituted by 4-methoxybenzyl and 4-methoxybenzylidene groups at positions 2 and 3 respectively. Isolated from the culture broth of the fungus Neosartorya fischeri, it exhibits antifungal activity. — 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:25235
Label unavailable CHEBI:51308

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C20H18N2O2
Charge	0
Average mass	318.376 Da
Monoisotopic mass	318.13683 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	QUPRNMGEDWRDBX-GZTJUZNOSA-N

SMILES

COc1ccc(/C=C(\C#N)C(C#N)Cc2ccc(OC)cc2)cc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C20H18N2O2/c1-23-19-7-3-15(4-8-19)11-17(13-21)18(14-22)12-16-5-9-20(24-2)10-6-16/h3-11,18H,12H2,1-2H3/b17-11+

Also called

(3Z)-2-(4-methoxybenzyl)-3-(4-methoxybenzylidene)butanedinitrile (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.

reaxys:7141651

Activity roles

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

antifungal agent CHEBI:35718

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:66631`	NK372135A	`antibioticmech:chebi-22fc903daa`	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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