zinc dichloride

CHEBI:49976 ·resolve ·BIOCIDE ·EXACT SEEDED

A compound of zinc and chloride ions in the ratio 1:2. It exists in four crystalline forms, in each of which the Zn2+ ions are trigonal planar coordinated to four chloride ions. — 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:27364
Label unavailable CHEBI:36093

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	2Cl.Zn
Charge	0
Average mass	136.296 Da
Monoisotopic mass	133.86685 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	JIAARYAFYJHUJI-UHFFFAOYSA-L

SMILES

[Cl-].[Cl-].[Zn+2]

InChI

InChI=1S/2ClH.Zn/h2*1H;/q;;+2/p-2

Also called

zinc(2+) chloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
zinc(II) chloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Zinkchlorid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ZnCl2 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
butter of zinc (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
chlorure de zinc (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
dichlorozinc (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
zinc chloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
zinc chloride, anhydrous (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:7646-85-7
gmelin:430396
molbase:1125

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.

kegg.drug:D02058

Patents and articles

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

wikipedia.en:Zinc_Chloride

Activity roles

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

disinfectant CHEBI:48219

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:49976`	zinc dichloride	`antibioticmech:chebi-4567813f04`	2026-08-30

Mechanism summary

Clinical status: APPROVED

Curation history

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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
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Provenance

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