dodecanoic acid

CHEBI:30805 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A straight-chain, twelve-carbon medium-chain saturated fatty acid with strong bactericidal properties; the main fatty acid in coconut oil and palm kernel oil. — 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:39418
Label unavailable CHEBI:59554

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C12H24O2
Charge	0
Average mass	200.322 Da
Monoisotopic mass	200.17763 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	POULHZVOKOAJMA-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCCCCCCCCCCC(=O)O

InChI

InChI=1S/C12H24O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12(13)14/h2-11H2,1H3,(H,13,14)

Also called

1-undecanecarboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ABL (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
C12 fatty acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
C12:0 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
CH3‒[CH2]10‒COOH (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Coconut oil fatty acids (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
DAO (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Dodecanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Dodecylcarboxylate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Dodecylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Duodecyclic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Duodecylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
LAURIC ACID (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Lauric acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Laurinsaeure (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Laurinsäure (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Laurostearic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-dodecanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Undecane-1-carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Vulvic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
dodecoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
lauric acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-dodecanoic 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.

Drug registries

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Patents and articles

Documents about this compound. A patent covers a class and an article covers a topic; neither identifies a structure.

wikipedia.en:Lauric_acid

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:30805`	dodecanoic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-d9397c8bed`	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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