3-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzoic acid

CHEBI:63798 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A methoxybenzoic acid that is 4-methoxybenzoic acid bearing a hydroxy substituent at position 3. — 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.

CHEBI:25238 CHEBI:25238
CHEBI:25389 CHEBI:25389

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C8H8O4
Charge	0
Average mass	168.148 Da
Monoisotopic mass	168.04226 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	LBKFGYZQBSGRHY-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

COc1ccc(C(=O)O)cc1O

InChI

InChI=1S/C8H8O4/c1-12-7-3-2-5(8(10)11)4-6(7)9/h2-4,9H,1H3,(H,10,11)

Also called

3-Hydroxyanisic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3-hydroxy-p-anisic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Acide isovanillique (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Isovanillic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:645-08-9
hmdb:HMDB0060003
reaxys:2208365

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:33282 CHEBI:33282

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:63798`	3-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzoic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-0bd73e8a28`	2026-08-30

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (CHEBI)
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

Provenance

Seeded by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.