brazilin

CHEBI:3170 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A organic heterotetracyclic compound that is a red pigment obtained from the wood of Caesalpinia echinata (Brazil-wood) or Caesalpinia sappan (sappan-wood). — 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:26878 CHEBI:26878
CHEBI:33566 CHEBI:33566
CHEBI:38163 CHEBI:38163

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C16H14O5
Charge	0
Average mass	286.283 Da
Monoisotopic mass	286.08412 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	UWHUTZOCTZJUKC-JKSUJKDBSA-N

SMILES

[H][C@]12c3cc(O)c(O)cc3C[C@@]1(O)COc1cc(O)ccc12

InChI

InChI=1S/C16H14O5/c17-9-1-2-10-14(4-9)21-7-16(20)6-8-3-12(18)13(19)5-11(8)15(10)16/h1-5,15,17-20H,6-7H2/t15-,16+/m0/s1

Also called

(6aS,11bR)-7,11b-dihydroindeno[2,1-c]chromene-3,6a,9,10(6H)-tetrol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
(+)-brazilin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Brazilin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Natural Red 24 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
brasilin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:474-07-7
kegg.compound:C09920
knapsack:C00010268
reaxys:4198570
wikipedia.en:Brazilin

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:3170`	brazilin	`antibioticmech:chebi-4acde8b024`	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.