The core framework is a benzimidazole, composed of a benzene ring fused with an imidazole.
- The imidazole is a five-membered saturated ring containing two nitrogens in a meta arrangement, with one of these nitrogens bearing a hydrogen.
- The fusion occurs through the two adjacent carbons of the imidazole and the benzene ring.

From the benzene portion, a substituent is attached at a position meta to one of the fused ring junctions, specifically the position closer to the hydrogen-bearing nitrogen of the imidazole. 

This substituent begins with a secondary amine nitrogen, which connects through a methylene group to a cyclobutane ring, a four-membered saturated carbocycle. At the same carbon of the cyclobutane ring that receives this linkage, there is also a cyano group, described as a carbon triple-bonded to a nitrogen.