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CHEBI:38167
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A dihydroxyanthraquinone that is 9,10-anthraquinone bearing hydroxy substituents at positions 1 and 8, a methoxy group at position 3, and a methyl group at position 6. It has been widely isolated and characterised from both terrestrial and marine sources. — 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.
Chemical structure
Computed structure properties
| Molecular formula | C16H12O5 |
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| Charge | 0 |
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| Average mass | 284.267 Da |
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| Monoisotopic mass | 284.06847 Da |
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| Source | ChEBI |
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| InChIKey | FFWOKTFYGVYKIR-UHFFFAOYSA-N |
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SMILES
COc1cc(O)c2c(c1)C(=O)c1cc(C)cc(O)c1C2=O
InChI
InChI=1S/C16H12O5/c1-7-3-9-13(11(17)4-7)16(20)14-10(15(9)19)5-8(21-2)6-12(14)18/h3-6,17-18H,1-2H3
Also called
- 1,8-dihydroxy-3-methoxy-6-methylanthracene-9,10-dione (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- 1,8-Dihydroxy-3-methoxy-6-methylanthraquinone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- 1,8-dihydroxy-3-methoxy-6-methyl-9,10-anthracenedione (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- 1,8-dihydroxy-3-methyl-6-methoxyanthraquinone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- Emodin monomethyl ether (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- Parienin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- Physcione (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- Rheochrysidin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- parietin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Cross-references
Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.
Activity roles
Every antimicrobial role a source asserts for this compound — the
unreduced evidence behind its antimicrobial_class.
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 |
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| CHEBI |
CHEBI:38167 |
physcion |
antibioticmech:chebi-b25bcb047f |
2026-08-30 |
Curation history
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2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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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
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