Benzoic Acid

Benzoic Acid

SCHEMBL2767882

Cl.Cl.O=C(O)c1ccccc1

nearest known ligand 0.93

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Known targets — ChEMBL curated mechanism

CACNA1CCACNA1DCACNA1FCACNA1SDPP4HTR1BHTR1D

The experimentally established mechanism targets of Benzoic Acid. The predicted profile below is derived independently by chemical similarity — agreement is a validation signal, a miss is honest.

Predicted protein targets (top 20)

geneUniProtsupporting neighboursconfidence
TSHR P16473 4/20 0.93
DAO P14920 1/20 0.93
NAPRT Q6XQN6 1/20 0.93
CES2 O00748 3/20 0.74
CES1 P23141 3/20 0.74
SRD5A2 P31213 2/20 0.74
TP53 P04637 1/20 0.69
ALDH1A1 P00352 2/20 0.61
TRPA1 O75762 1/20 0.56
CA12 O43570 2/20 0.55
CA1 P00915 2/20 0.55
CA2 P00918 2/20 0.55
CA3 P07451 2/20 0.55
CA4 P22748 2/20 0.55
CA6 P23280 2/20 0.55
CA5A P35218 2/20 0.55
CA7 P43166 2/20 0.55
CA9 Q16790 2/20 0.55
CA14 Q9ULX7 2/20 0.55
CA5B Q9Y2D0 2/20 0.55

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Similar compounds — the chemically nearest patent molecules

Nearest neighbours by Morgan-fingerprint cosine across the patent-compound collection, with each neighbour's top predicted target and the predicted targets it shares with this molecule.

Compoundsimilaritytop predictedshared targets
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL11626217 1.00 TSHR (0.93) TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL1312225 1.00 TSHR (0.93) TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL3625423 1.00 TSHR (0.93) TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL31056757 1.00 TSHR (0.93) TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL6575006 0.97 TSHR (0.88) TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL946804 0.97 TSHR (0.88) TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL8640540 0.97 TSHR (0.88) TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL177937 0.97 TSHR (0.88) TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL324303 0.97 TSHR (0.88) TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL6349698 0.97 TSHR (0.88) TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1

Similarity is cosine over the 2,048-bit Morgan fingerprint (≈ Tanimoto). Identical fingerprints score 1.00.

Patent provenance — the patents this molecule appears in, and who filed them

Claimed or disclosed in 26 patents — showing the first 20. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.

PatentTitleAssigneePublishedPriorityFilingCountryStatus
US-20240425517-A1 NOVEL COMPOUND FOR DEGRADATION OF TARGET PROTEIN OR POLYPEPTIDE BY POLYUBIQUITINATION PRAZER THERAPEUTICS INC. (KR) 2024-12-26 US claimed
EP-1704146-B1 STEREOISOMERIC COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR THE TREATMENT OF GASTROINTESTINAL AND CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS ARYX THERAPEUTICS (US) 2010-04-14 EP claimed
EP-4743446-A1 NITRO-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS THAT KILL MYCOBACTERIA Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (US) 2026-05-20 EP disclosed
WO-2025015066-A1 NITRO-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS THAT KILL MYCOBACTERIA BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (US) 2025-01-16 WO disclosed
US-20240425517-A1 NOVEL COMPOUND FOR DEGRADATION OF TARGET PROTEIN OR POLYPEPTIDE BY POLYUBIQUITINATION PRAZER THERAPEUTICS INC. (KR) 2024-12-26 US disclosed
EP-3768661-B1 DEUTERATED COMPOUNDS AS ROCK INHIBITORS FOCHON PHARMACEUTICALS LTD (CN) 2024-05-01 EP disclosed
EP-4330267-A1 STABLE ISOQUINOLINE-CORTICOSTEROID CONJUGATES AND USES THEREOF Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (US) 2024-03-06 EP disclosed
CN-112771025-B Deuterated compounds as ROCK inhibitors 重庆复创医药研究有限公司 2024-02-27 CN disclosed
WO-2022232602-A9 STABLE ISOQUINOLINE-CORTICOSTEROID CONJUGATES AND USES THEREOF AERIE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (US) 2023-11-09 WO disclosed
CN-116783160-A Libraries of compounds 中外制药株式会社 2023-09-19 CN disclosed
WO-2023132369-A1 NITROGEN-CONTAINING HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND HAVING NRF2 ACTIVATION EFFECT 中外製薬株式会社 2023-07-13 WO disclosed
CN-109563070-B Fused thiophene derivatives as NAPI-IIB inhibitors 伊莱利利公司 2021-02-26 CN disclosed
EP-3768661-A1 DEUTERATED COMPOUNDS AS ROCK INHIBITORS Fochon Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. (CN) 2021-01-27 EP disclosed
WO-2019179525-A1 DEUTERATED COMPOUNDS AS ROCK INHIBITORS FOCHON PHARMACEUTICALS, LTD. (CN) 2019-09-26 WO disclosed
CN-101679298-B Fused bicyclic heteroaryl derivatives DAIICHI SANKYO CO LTD 2013-10-23 CN disclosed
CN-101679298-A fused bicyclic heteroaryl derivatives DAIICHI SANKYO CO LTD 2010-03-24 CN disclosed
CN-1886376-A Pyridine compounds as dipeptidyl dipeptidase-IV inhibitors TAKEDA CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD (JP) 2006-12-27 CN disclosed
EP-1678138-A1 PYRIDINE COMPOUNDS AS INHIBITORS OF DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (JP) 2006-07-12 EP disclosed
WO-2005042488-A1 PYRIDINE COMPOUNDS AS INHIBITORS OF DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED (JP) 2005-05-12 WO disclosed
EP-0315112-A2 Novel amide compounds Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha (JP) 1989-05-10 EP disclosed

Patent text — is the patent's own abstract consistent with the prediction?

For each of this compound's patents that has machine-readable text (1 of them — usually the abstract, not the full specification), we ask MedCPT which protein the text reads most about, and where the chemistry-predicted target lands among 4885 human targets. A high rank means the patent's own wording is consistent with the prediction — a weak, independent signal, not proof of activity.

PatentTitleText reads most aboutPredicted target · text-rank
US-20240425517-A1 NOVEL COMPOUND FOR DEGRADATION OF TARGET PROTEIN OR POLYPEPTIDE BY POLYUBIQUITINATION ADRM1, SUMO1, SUMO2 TSHR 1937/4885DAO 1897/4885NAPRT 3017/4885

“Text reads most about” is the patent abstract's nearest protein in MedCPT space (background-debiased). Only ~1.4% of patents have machine-readable text, so most compounds won't have this panel.