5-methoxyindole-3-acetic acid

CHEBI:28281 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A member of the class of indole-3-acetic acids in which the hydrogen at position 5 of indole-3-acetic acid has been replaced by a methoxy group. — 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:24803
Label unavailable CHEBI:35618

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C11H11NO3
Charge	0
Average mass	205.213 Da
Monoisotopic mass	205.07389 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	COCNDHOPIHDTHK-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

COc1ccc2ncc(CC(=O)O)c2c1

InChI

InChI=1S/C11H11NO3/c1-15-8-2-3-10-9(5-8)7(6-12-10)4-11(13)14/h2-3,5-6,12H,4H2,1H3,(H,13,14)

Also called

2-(5-methoxy-1H-indol-3-yl)acetic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-(5-methoxy-1H-indol-3-yl)ethanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-(5-methoxyindole-3-yl)acetic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
5-Methoxyindol-3-ylacetic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
5-Methoxyindoleacetic 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:28281`	5-methoxyindole-3-acetic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-1e2e30fb2e`	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 (YAML).

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