benznidazole

CHEBI:133833 ·resolve ·ANTIPROTOZOAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A monocarboxylic acid amide obtained by formal condensation of the carboxy group of (2-nitroimidazol-1-yl)acetic acid with the aromatic amino group of benzylamine. Used for treatment of Chagas disease. — 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:24780
Label unavailable CHEBI:29347
Label unavailable CHEBI:35716

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C12H12N4O3
Charge	0
Average mass	260.253 Da
Monoisotopic mass	260.09094 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	CULUWZNBISUWAS-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

O=C(Cn1ccnc1[N+](=O)[O-])NCc1ccccc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C12H12N4O3/c17-11(14-8-10-4-2-1-3-5-10)9-15-7-6-13-12(15)16(18)19/h1-7H,8-9H2,(H,14,17)

Also called

benznidazol (INN)— chebi
benznidazolum (INN)— chebi
N-benzyl-2-(2-nitro-1H-imidazol-1-yl)acetamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Nitro-N-(phenylmethyl)-1H-imidazole-1-acetamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-Benzyl-2-nitroimidazol-1-yl-acetamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-Benzyl-2-nitroimidazole-1-acetamide (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:22994-85-0
reaxys:551486

Drug registries

Identifiers that name a drug rather than a structure. One of these can cover a parent compound, its salts and its stereoisomers, which this corpus keeps as separate records, so it is not an equivalence of structure.

Patents and articles

Documents about this compound. A patent covers a class and an article covers a topic; neither identifies a structure.

wikipedia.en:Benznidazole

Activity roles

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

antiprotozoal drug CHEBI:35820

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:133833`	benznidazole	`antibioticmech:chebi-63888122bb`	2026-08-30

Mechanism summary

Clinical status: APPROVED

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
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Provenance

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