hexadecan-2-ol

CHEBI:185029 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A secondary fatty alcohol that is hexadecane substituted by a hydroxy group at position 2. — 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:167095 CHEBI:167095
CHEBI:197387 CHEBI:197387

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C16H34O
Charge	0
Average mass	242.447 Da
Monoisotopic mass	242.26097 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	FVDRFBGMOWJEOR-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC(C)O

InChI

InChI=1S/C16H34O/c1-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16(2)17/h16-17H,3-15H2,1-2H3

Also called

2-hexadecanol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-hydroxyhexadecane (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
hexadecanol-2 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
methyl tetradecyl carbinol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:14852-31-4
chemspider:77368
reaxys:1748421

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:185029`	hexadecan-2-ol	`antibioticmech:chebi-58b311f056`	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.