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.
Chemical structure
Computed structure properties
| Molecular formula | C12H24O2 |
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| Charge | 0 |
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| Average mass | 200.322 Da |
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| Monoisotopic mass | 200.17763 Da |
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| Source | ChEBI |
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| InChIKey | POULHZVOKOAJMA-UHFFFAOYSA-N |
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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
Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.
- cas:143-07-7
- drugbank:DB03017
- drugcentral:4642
- gmelin:103520
- hmdb:HMDB0000638
- kegg.compound:C02679
- knapsack:C00001221
- lipidmaps:LMFA01010012
- metacyc.compound:DODECANOATE
- pdb-ccd:DAO
- reaxys:1099477
- umbbd.compound:c0566
- wikipedia.en:Lauric_acid
Activity roles
Every antimicrobial role a source asserts for this compound — the
unreduced evidence behind its antimicrobial_class.
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 |
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| CHEBI |
CHEBI:30805 |
dodecanoic acid |
antibioticmech:chebi-d9397c8bed |
2026-08-30 |
Curation history
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SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES
2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (CHEBI)
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES
2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
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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
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