hexan-1-ol

CHEBI:87393 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A primary alcohol that is hexane substituted by a hydroxy group at position 1. — 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:143552
Label unavailable CHEBI:15734

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C6H14O
Charge	0
Average mass	102.177 Da
Monoisotopic mass	102.10447 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	ZSIAUFGUXNUGDI-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCCCCCO

InChI

InChI=1S/C6H14O/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7/h7H,2-6H2,1H3

Also called

1-hexanol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-hexyl alcohol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-hydroxyhexane (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
C6 alcohol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Caproic alcohol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
alcohol C-6 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
alcohol(C6) (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
amylcarbinol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
caproyl alcohol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
hexanol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
hexanol-(1) (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
hexyl alcohol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-hexan-1-ol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-hexanol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-hexyl alcohol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
pentylcarbinol (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:1-Hexanol

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:87393`	hexan-1-ol	`antibioticmech:chebi-e20a00db05`	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
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · 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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