ronidazole

CHEBI:141154 ·resolve ·ANTIPROTOZOAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A carbamate ester that is 5-nitroimidazole in which the hydrogens at positions 1 and 2 are replaced by methyl and (carbamoyloxy)methyl groups, respectively. An antiprotozoal agent, it is used in veterinary medicine for the treatment of histomoniasis and swine dysentery. — 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:23003 CHEBI:23003
CHEBI:24780 CHEBI:24780
CHEBI:35716 CHEBI:35716

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C6H8N4O4
Charge	0
Average mass	200.154 Da
Monoisotopic mass	200.05455 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	PQFRTXSWDXZRRS-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

Cn1c([N+](=O)[O-])cnc1COC(N)=O

InChI

InChI=1S/C6H8N4O4/c1-9-4(3-14-6(7)11)8-2-5(9)10(12)13/h2H,3H2,1H3,(H2,7,11)

Also called

ronidazol (INN)— chebi
ronidazolum (INN)— chebi
(1-methyl-5-nitro-1H-imidazol-2-yl)methyl carbamate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-methyl-5-nitro-1H-imidazole-2-methanol carbamate ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
carbamic acid (1-methyl-5-nitro-2-imidazolyl)methyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:7681-76-7
kegg.drug:D05752
vsdb:2406
wikipedia.en:Ronidazole

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:141154`	ronidazole	`antibioticmech:chebi-9381fe51b0`	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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