N-hydroxyguanidine
CHEBI:43089
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A member of the class of guanidines that is guanidine in which one of the hydrogens attached to the nitrogen at position 1 is substituted by a hydroxy group. — 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.
Chemical structure
Computed structure properties
| Molecular formula | CH5N3O |
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| Charge | 0 |
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| Average mass | 75.071 Da |
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| Monoisotopic mass | 75.04326 Da |
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| Source | ChEBI |
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| InChIKey | WFBHRSAKANVBKH-UHFFFAOYSA-N |
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SMILES
N=C(N)NO
InChI
InChI=1S/CH5N3O/c2-1(3)4-5/h5H,(H4,2,3,4)
Also called
- 1-hydroxyguanidine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- N''-hydroxyguanidine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- N-hydroxy-guanidine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- hydroxyguanidine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Cross-references
Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.
Activity roles
Every antimicrobial role a source asserts for this compound — the
unreduced evidence behind its antimicrobial_class.
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 |
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| CHEBI |
CHEBI:43089 |
N-hydroxyguanidine |
antibioticmech:chebi-c59faad6bd |
2026-08-30 |
Curation history
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SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES
2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (CHEBI)
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES
2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
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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/.
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