3-phenylbutyric acid

CHEBI:166657 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A monocarboxylic acid that is butanoic acid substituted by a phenyl group 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.

Label unavailable CHEBI:22712
Label unavailable CHEBI:25384

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C10H12O2
Charge	0
Average mass	164.204 Da
Monoisotopic mass	164.08373 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	ZZEWMYILWXCRHZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CC(CC(=O)O)c1ccccc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C10H12O2/c1-8(7-10(11)12)9-5-3-2-4-6-9/h2-6,8H,7H2,1H3,(H,11,12)

Also called

3-phenylbutanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
β-methylbenzenepropanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
β-methylhydrocinnamic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
β-phenylbutyric acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Identifiers for this same structure in other resources. An accession that lands on two different structures in this corpus is withheld from both rather than shown here, since it names at most one of them.

Activity roles

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

antibacterial agent 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:166657`	3-phenylbutyric acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-951971716d`	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
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

Provenance

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