decanoic acid

CHEBI:30813 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A C10, straight-chain saturated fatty acid. — 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:39418 CHEBI:39418
CHEBI:59554 CHEBI:59554

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C10H20O2
Charge	0
Average mass	172.268 Da
Monoisotopic mass	172.14633 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	GHVNFZFCNZKVNT-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCCCCCCCCC(=O)O

InChI

InChI=1S/C10H20O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10(11)12/h2-9H2,1H3,(H,11,12)

Also called

1-nonanecarboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
10:0 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
C10:0 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
CH3‒[CH2]8‒COOH (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
DECANOIC ACID (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Decanoate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Decanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Decylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Dekansäure (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Kaprinsäure (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
capric acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
caprinic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
decoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-Capric acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-decanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-decoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-decylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

beilstein:1754556
cas:334-48-5
drugbank:DB03600
ecmdb:ECMDB21204
gmelin:69184
hmdb:HMDB0000511
kegg.compound:C01571
knapsack:C00001213
lipidmaps:LMFA01010010
metacyc.compound:CPD-3617
pdb-ccd:DKA
ymdb:YMDB00677

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:30813`	decanoic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-69212525d5`	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.