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Synonyms	Acetoxyl 2.5 Acetoxyl 5 Acne-aid cream Acnecide Acnecide 10 Acnegel Acnegel fte Acnidazil Anhydrous benzoyl peroxide Benoxyl Benoxyl 10 Benoxyl 20 Benoxyl 5 Benzac Benzac w
Status
Molecule Category	Free-form
ATC	D10AE01
UNII	W9WZN9A0GM
EPA CompTox	DTXSID6024591

Synonyms

Acetoxyl 2.5

Acetoxyl 5

Acne-aid cream

Acnecide

Acnecide 10

Acnegel

Acnegel fte

Acnidazil

Anhydrous benzoyl peroxide

Benoxyl

Benoxyl 10

Benoxyl 20

Benoxyl 5

Benzac

Benzac w

Status

Molecule Category

Free-form

ATC

D10AE01

UNII

W9WZN9A0GM

EPA CompTox

DTXSID6024591


InChI Key	OMPJBNCRMGITSC-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Smiles	O=C(OOC(=O)c1ccccc1)c1ccccc1
InChI	InChI=1S/C14H10O4/c15-13(11-7-3-1-4-8-11)17-18-14(16)12-9-5-2-6-10-12/h1-10H

InChI Key

OMPJBNCRMGITSC-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Smiles

O=C(OOC(=O)c1ccccc1)c1ccccc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C14H10O4/c15-13(11-7-3-1-4-8-11)17-18-14(16)12-9-5-2-6-10-12/h1-10H

Property Name	Value
Molecular Formula	C14H10O4
Molecular Weight	242.23
AlogP	2.62
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor	4.0
Number of Rotational Bond	2.0
Polar Surface Area	52.6
Heavy Atoms	18.0

Property Name

Value

Molecular Formula

C14H10O4

Molecular Weight

242.23

AlogP

2.62

Hydrogen Bond Acceptor

4.0

Number of Rotational Bond

2.0

Polar Surface Area

52.6

Heavy Atoms

18.0

Mechanism of Action	Action	Reference
Releases active oxygen	None	DailyMed

Mechanism of Action

Action

Reference

Releases active oxygen

None

DailyMed

Resources	Reference
ChEBI	82405
ChEMBL	CHEMBL1200370
DrugBank	DB09096
DrugCentral	328
FDA SRS	W9WZN9A0GM
Human Metabolome Database	HMDB0032040
KEGG	C19346
PubChem	7187
SureChEMBL	SCHEMBL63
ZINC	ZINC000000001016

Resources

Reference

ChEBI

ChEMBL

DrugBank

DrugCentral

FDA SRS

Human Metabolome Database

KEGG

PubChem

SureChEMBL

ZINC

EcoDrug+ was developed under the PREMIER Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 875508. The JU receives support from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). The views reflect only the authors’ perspective and the JU is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information EcoDrug+ contains.

Elements of EcoDrug+ were developed under the Biocenter Finland Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology network. CSC-IT Center for Science Ltd is thanked for providing computational resources. Credit is given to Ensembl for collecting species images (provided under public domain licences such as Wikimedia and NHGRI).

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Ashenafi Legehar, Siobhán Monaghan, Mael Briand, Akseli Niemelä, Leo Ghemtio, Ziaurrehman Tanoli, A Ross Brown, Charles R Tyler, Henri Xhaard, EcoDrug PLUS: an advanced database for drug target conservation analysis and environmental risk assessment, Nucleic Acids Research, 2025, gkaf1251 Read...

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Last update: Monday, 3 November 2025

BENZOYL PEROXIDE

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