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.

CHEBI:24780 CHEBI:24780
CHEBI:35716 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

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

patent:FR2625997
vsdb:1882

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:35820 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

Provenance

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