pentachloronitrobenzene

CHEBI:34908 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A C-nitro compound that is nitrobenzene in which every hydrogen has been replaced by a chlorine. A fungicide used on a variety of crops, including cotton, rice and seed grains, it is no longer approved for use within the European Union. — 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:35716 CHEBI:35716
CHEBI:83390 CHEBI:83390
CHEBI:87034 CHEBI:87034

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C6Cl5NO2
Charge	0
Average mass	295.336 Da
Monoisotopic mass	292.83717 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	LKPLKUMXSAEKID-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

O=[N+]([O-])c1c(Cl)c(Cl)c(Cl)c(Cl)c1Cl

InChI

InChI=1S/C6Cl5NO2/c7-1-2(8)4(10)6(12(13)14)5(11)3(1)9

Also called

Avicol (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Batrilex (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Botrilex (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Brassicol (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Earthcide (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Fartox (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Folosan (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Fungiclor (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Pentagen (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Phomasan (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Terrachlor (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Terraclor (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Terrafun (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Tilcarex (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
1,2,3,4,5-pentachloro-6-nitrobenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2,3,4,5,6-pentachloronitrobenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
PCNB (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
PKhNC (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Pentachlornitrobenzol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Pentachloronitrobenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Quintozene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
nitropentachlorobenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
pentachlornitrobenzol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:82-68-8
kegg.compound:C14338
patent:US7629159
pesticides:quintozene
ppdb:581
reaxys:1914324
wikipedia.en:Pentachloronitrobenzene

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:24127 CHEBI:24127
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:34908`	pentachloronitrobenzene	`antibioticmech:chebi-26457fddf9`	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.