buformin

CHEBI:3209 ·resolve ·ANTIVIRAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A member of the class of biguanides that is biguanide substituted by a butyl group at position 1. It is an antidiabetic drug with potential antitumor effect. — 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:53662 CHEBI:53662

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C6H15N5
Charge	0
Average mass	157.221 Da
Monoisotopic mass	157.13275 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	XSEUMFJMFFMCIU-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCCCNC(=N)NC(=N)N

InChI

InChI=1S/C6H15N5/c1-2-3-4-10-6(9)11-5(7)8/h2-4H2,1H3,(H6,7,8,9,10,11)

Also called

buformina (INN)— chebi
buformine (INN)— chebi
buforminum (INN)— chebi
N-butyltriimidodicarbonic diamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-butylbiguanide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-butyldiguanide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-butyl-N'-(diaminomethylidene)guanidine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-butylimidodicarbonimidic diamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N1-butylbiguanide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
W 37 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
butformin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
butylbiguanide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
butyldiguanide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
glybigid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:692-13-7
chemspider:2374
drugbank:DB04830
drugcentral:423
hmdb:HMDB0249431
kegg.compound:C07674
kegg.drug:D00595
pdb-ccd:BFR
reaxys:607037
wikipedia.en:Buformin

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:22587 CHEBI:22587

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:3209`	buformin	`antibioticmech:chebi-8393aa048c`	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

Seeded by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.