morellic acid

CHEBI:66401 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A dioxo monocarboxylic acid derived from morellin by oxidation of the aldehyde group to the corresponding carboxy group. Isolated from Garcinia morella and Garcinia hanburyi, it exhibits antineoplastic, antibacterial and anti-HIV 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.

CHEBI:33640 CHEBI:33640
CHEBI:33853 CHEBI:33853
CHEBI:35951 CHEBI:35951
CHEBI:37407 CHEBI:37407
CHEBI:3992 CHEBI:3992
CHEBI:51914 CHEBI:51914

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C33H36O8
Charge	0
Average mass	560.643 Da
Monoisotopic mass	560.24102 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	ITPZQGLNWWAFMF-FXQQNLISSA-N

SMILES

[H][C@@]12OC(C)(C)[C@]3(C/C=C(/C)C(=O)O)C[C@@]([H])(C=C4C(=O)c5c(O)c6c(c(CC=C(C)C)c5O[C@]431)OC(C)(C)C=C6)C2=O

InChI

InChI=1S/C33H36O8/c1-16(2)8-9-20-26-19(11-12-30(4,5)39-26)24(35)22-25(36)21-14-18-15-32(13-10-17(3)29(37)38)31(6,7)41-28(23(18)34)33(21,32)40-27(20)22/h8,10-12,14,18,28,35H,9,13,15H2,1-7H3,(H,37,38)/b17-10-/t18-,28+,32+,33+/m1/s1

Also called

(2Z)-4-[(1R,3aS,5S,14aS)-8-hydroxy-3,3,11,11-tetramethyl-13-(3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl)-7,15-dioxo-5,7-dihydro-3H,11H-1,5-methanofuro[3,4-g]pyrano[3,2-b]xanthen-3a(4H)-yl]-2-methylbut-2-enoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Activity roles

Every antimicrobial role a source asserts for this compound — the unreduced evidence behind its antimicrobial_class.

CHEBI:33282 CHEBI:33282
CHEBI:64947 CHEBI:64947

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:66401`	morellic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-4cb2e877f6`	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.