remdesivir

CHEBI:145994 ·resolve ·ANTIVIRAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A carboxylic ester resulting from the formal condensation of the carboxy group of N-[(S)-{[(2R,3S,4R,5R)-5-(4-aminopyrrolo[2,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-7-yl)-5-cyano-3,4-dihydroxytetrahydrofuran-2-yl]methoxy}(phenoxy)phosphoryl]-L-alanine with the hydroxy group of 2-ethylbutan-1-ol. A broad-spectrum antiviral prodrug with potent in vitro antiviral activity against a diverse panel of RNA viruses such as Ebola virus, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV. It is currently in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of Covid-19 in adults. — ChEBI

Classification

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

• Label unavailable CHEBI:18379
• Label unavailable CHEBI:27577
• Label unavailable CHEBI:33308
• Label unavailable CHEBI:33860
• Label unavailable CHEBI:37086
• Label unavailable CHEBI:88341

Chemical structure

SMILES

CCC(CC)COC(=O)[C@H](C)N[P@](=O)(OC[C@H]1O[C@@](C#N)(c2ccc3c(N)ncnn23)[C@H](O)[C@@H]1O)Oc1ccccc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C27H35N6O8P/c1-4-18(5-2)13-38-26(36)17(3)32-42(37,41-19-9-7-6-8-10-19)39-14-21-23(34)24(35)27(15-28,40-21)22-12-11-20-25(29)30-16-31-33(20)22/h6-12,16-18,21,23-24,34-35H,4-5,13-14H2,1-3H3,(H,32,37)(H2,29,30,31)/t17-,21+,23+,24+,27-,42-/m0/s1

Also called

• remdesivirum (INN)— chebi
• remdésivir (INN)— chebi
• 2-ethylbutyl N-[(S)-{[(2R,3S,4R,5R)-5-(4-aminopyrrolo[2,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-7-yl)-5-cyano-3,4-dihydroxytetrahydrofuran-2-yl]methoxy}(phenoxy)phosphoryl]-L-alaninate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• (2S)-2-{(2R,3S,4R,5R)-[5-(4-Aminopyrrolo[2,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-7-yl)-5-cyano-3,4-dihydroxy-tetrahydro-furan-2-ylmethoxy]phenoxy-(S)-phosphorylamino}propionic acid 2-ethyl-butyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• 2-ethylbutyl (2S)-2-{[(S)-{[(2R,3S,4R,5R)-5-(4-aminopyrrolo[2,1-f][1,2,4]triazin-7-yl)-5-cyano-3,4-dihydroxytetrahydrofuran-2-yl]methoxy}(phenoxy)phosphoryl]amino}propanoate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• GS 5734 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• GS-5734 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• GS5734 (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.

• cas:1809249-37-3

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.

• drugbank:DB14761
• kegg.drug:D11472

Patents and articles

Documents about this compound. A patent covers a class and an article covers a topic; neither identifies a structure.

• wikipedia.en:Remdesivir

Activity roles

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

• anticoronaviral agent CHEBI:149553
• antiviral drug CHEBI:36044

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.

Mechanism summary

Clinical status

APPROVED

Curation history

1. SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources

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2. RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources

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5. RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-31 · seed_from_sources

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6. RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources

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Provenance

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