glycyrrhizol B

CHEBI:65977 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

An organic heteropentacyclic compound that is 2H-pyrano[3',4',5'',6'']-pterocarpene substituted by a hydroxy group at position 7, a methoxy group at position 5 and geminal methyl groups at position 2''. Isolated from the roots of Glycyrrhiza uralensis, it exhibits antibacterial activity. — 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:25698
Label unavailable CHEBI:33853
Label unavailable CHEBI:38164

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C21H18O5
Charge	0
Average mass	350.37 Da
Monoisotopic mass	350.11542 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	BKLGAGSBCOUJGV-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

COc1cc(O)cc2c1-c1oc3c4c(ccc3c1CO2)OC(C)(C)C=C4

InChI

InChI=1S/C21H18O5/c1-21(2)7-6-13-15(26-21)5-4-12-14-10-24-17-9-11(22)8-16(23-3)18(17)20(14)25-19(12)13/h4-9,22H,10H2,1-3H3

Also called

12-methoxy-3,3-dimethyl-3H,7H-furo[3,2-c:5,4-f']dichromen-10-ol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
7-hydroxy-5-methoxy-2'',2''-dimethyl-2H-pyrano[3',4',5'',6'']-pterocarpene (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.

reaxys:18589783

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:65977`	glycyrrhizol B	`antibioticmech:chebi-8e0d765f9f`	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 (YAML).

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