ethyl acetoacetate

CHEBI:4893 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

An ethyl ester resulting from the formal condensation of the carboxy group of acetoacetic acid with ethanol. — 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:23990

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C6H10O3
Charge	0
Average mass	130.143 Da
Monoisotopic mass	130.06299 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	XYIBRDXRRQCHLP-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCOC(=O)CC(C)=O

InChI

InChI=1S/C6H10O3/c1-3-9-6(8)4-5(2)7/h3-4H2,1-2H3

Also called

ethyl 3-oxobutanoate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-ethoxybutane-1,3-dione (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3-ketobutyric acid ethyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3-oxobutanoic acid ethyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3-oxobutyric acid ethyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
acetoacetic acid ethyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
active acetyl acetate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
diacetic ether (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethyl 3-oxidanylidenebutanoate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethyl 3-oxobutyrate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethyl acetyl acetate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethyl acetylacetate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethyl acetylacetonate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethyl β-ketobutyrate (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.

Patents and articles

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

wikipedia.en:Ethyl_acetoacetate

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:4893`	ethyl acetoacetate	`antibioticmech:chebi-323580a4e0`	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
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
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Provenance

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