mandelic acid

CHEBI:35825 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A 2-hydroxy monocarboxylic acid that is acetic acid in which two of the methyl hydrogens are substituted by phenyl and hydroxyl groups. — 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:22712
Label unavailable CHEBI:49302

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C8H8O3
Charge	0
Average mass	152.149 Da
Monoisotopic mass	152.04734 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	IWYDHOAUDWTVEP-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

O=C(O)C(O)c1ccccc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C8H8O3/c9-7(8(10)11)6-4-2-1-3-5-6/h1-5,7,9H,(H,10,11)

Also called

hydroxy(phenyl)acetic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
(RS)-Mandelic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Hydroxy-2-phenylacetic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Hydroxy-2-phenylethanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
DL-Mandelic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Mandelsäure (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
α-hydroxybenzeneacetic acid (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.

beilstein:510011
gmelin:218213
hmdb:HMDB0000703
reaxys:510011

Drug registries

Identifiers that name a drug rather than a structure. One of these can cover a parent compound, its salts and its stereoisomers, which this corpus keeps as separate records, so it is not an equivalence of structure.

drugcentral:1629

Patents and articles

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

wikipedia.en:Mandelic_acid

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:35825`	mandelic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-c265961aaf`	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

Provenance

Seeded by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record (YAML).

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