atromentin

CHEBI:149660 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A member of the class of dihydroxy-1,4-benzoquinones that is 2,5-dihydroxycyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-dione which is substituted by a 4-hydroxyphenyl group at positions 3 and 6. It is a mushroom pigment isolated from several fungi species and acts as a smooth muscle stimulant, and exhibits anticoagulant, antibacterial and antineoplastic properties. — 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:132126 CHEBI:132126
CHEBI:26195 CHEBI:26195

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C18H12O6
Charge	0
Average mass	324.288 Da
Monoisotopic mass	324.06339 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	FKQQKMGWCJGUCS-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

O=C1C(O)=C(c2ccc(O)cc2)C(=O)C(O)=C1c1ccc(O)cc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C18H12O6/c19-11-5-1-9(2-6-11)13-15(21)17(23)14(18(24)16(13)22)10-3-7-12(20)8-4-10/h1-8,19-21,24H

Also called

3',4,4'',6'-tetrahydroxy[1,1':4',1''-terphenyl]-2',5'-dione (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
14,23,26,34-tetrahydroxy[11,21:24,31-terphenyl]-22,25-dione (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2,5-dihydroxy-3,6-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1,4-benzoquinone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2,5-dihydroxy-3,6-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)cyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-dione (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2,5-dihydroxy-3,6-bis(p-hydroxyphenyl)-p-benzoquinone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:519-67-5
knapsack:C00036784
metacyc.compound:CPD-14619
wikipedia.en:Atromentin

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:149660`	atromentin	`antibioticmech:chebi-b2949e4148`	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.