dimetridazole

CHEBI:141155 ·resolve ·ANTIPROTOZOAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A C-nitro compound that is 5-nitroimidazole in which the hydrogens at positions 1 and 2 are replaced by methyl groups. An antiprotozoal drug, it has been banned by both the Government of Canada and the European Union as a livestock feed additive owing to suspicions of it being carcinogenic. — 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:35716

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C5H7N3O2
Charge	0
Average mass	141.13 Da
Monoisotopic mass	141.05383 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	IBXPYPUJPLLOIN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

Cc1ncc([N+](=O)[O-])n1C

InChI

InChI=1S/C5H7N3O2/c1-4-6-3-5(7(4)2)8(9)10/h3H,1-2H3

Also called

dimetridazol (INN)— chebi
dimetridazolum (INN)— chebi
dimétridazole (INN)— chebi
1,2-dimethyl-5-nitro-1H-imidazole (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1,2-Dimethyl-5-nitroimidazole (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
5-Nitro-1,2-dimethylimidazole (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.

vsdb:1882

Patents and articles

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

patent:FR2625997

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:141155`	dimetridazole	`antibioticmech:chebi-cf2a0daafe`	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
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · 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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