FB2026_03 , released September 17, 2026
Chemical: eflornithine
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General Information
Name
eflornithine
FlyBase ID
FBch0001266
ChEBI Name
eflornithine
ChEBI ID
CHEBI:41948
PubChem Name
Eflornithine
PubChem ID
CID:3009
Chemical Structure
Chemical structure of eflornithine
eflornithine
InChIKey

VLCYCQAOQCDTCN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Definition (ChEBI)

A fluoroamino acid that is ornithine substituted by a difluoromethyl group at position 2.

Roles Classification (ChEBI)
Comment
Synonyms and Secondary IDs (25)
Synonyms
2,5-diamino-2-(difluoromethyl)pentanoic acid
(ChEBI, 2019-, PubChem, 2019-)
2-(Difluoromethyl)-DL-ornithine
(PubChem, 2019-)
2-(Difluoromethyl)ornithine
(PubChem, 2019-)
2-(difluoromethyl)-dl-ornithine
(PubChem, 2019-)
2-(difluoromethyl)ornithine
(ChEBI, 2019-, PubChem, 2019-)
2-difluoromethylornithine
(Stewart et al., 2023)
70052-12-9
(PubChem, 2019-)
ALPHA-DIFLUOROMETHYLORNITHINE
(ChEBI, 2019-)
DFMO
(Gu et al., 2026, Coni et al., 2021, ChEBI, 2019-)
DL-Ornithine, 2-(difluoromethyl)-
(ChEBI, 2019-)
Difluoromethylornithine
(Hofer et al., 2024, PubChem, 2019-)
EFLORNITHINE
(PubChem, 2019-)
Eflornithine
(ChEBI, 2019-)
Ornidyl
(PubChem, 2019-)
PubChem:3009
(PubChem, 2019-)
Vaniqa
(PubChem, 2019-)
alpha-(Difluoromethyl)-DL-ornithine
(ChEBI, 2019-)
alpha-Difluoromethylornithine
(PubChem, 2019-)
alpha-difluoromethylornithine
(ChEBI, 2019-, PubChem, 2019-)
dfmo
(PubChem, 2019-)
difluoromethylornithine
(Gu et al., 2026, Stump et al., 2022, PubChem, 2019-, Wang et al., 2017)
eflornithine
(ChEBI, 2019-, PubChem, 2019-, Wang et al., 2017)
ornidyl
(PubChem, 2019-)
pubchem:3009
(PubChem, 2019-)
vaniqa
(PubChem, 2019-)
Secondary FlyBase IDs
    References (8)