eflornithine

CHEBI:41948 ·resolve ·ANTIPROTOZOAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A fluoroamino acid that is ornithine substituted by a difluoromethyl group at position 2. — 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:24068
Label unavailable CHEBI:33704

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C6H12F2N2O2
Charge	0
Average mass	182.17 Da
Monoisotopic mass	182.08668 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	VLCYCQAOQCDTCN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

NCCCC(N)(C(=O)O)C(F)F

InChI

InChI=1S/C6H12F2N2O2/c7-4(8)6(10,5(11)12)2-1-3-9/h4H,1-3,9-10H2,(H,11,12)

Also called

2,5-diamino-2-(difluoromethyl)pentanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-(difluoromethyl)ornithine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ALPHA-DIFLUOROMETHYLORNITHINE (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
DFMO (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
DL-Ornithine, 2-(difluoromethyl)- (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Eflornithine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
alpha-(Difluoromethyl)-DL-ornithine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
α-difluoromethylornithine (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.

beilstein:2250529
cas:67037-37-0
cas:70052-12-9
kegg.compound:C07997
pdb-ccd:DMO
reaxys:2250529

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:Eflornithine

Activity roles

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

trypanocidal drug CHEBI:36335

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:41948`	eflornithine	`antibioticmech:chebi-15dccd4582`	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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