2,4-xylenol

CHEBI:34241 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A member of the class of phenols that phenol substituted by methyl groups at positions 2 and 4. — 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:33853 CHEBI:33853
CHEBI:87034 CHEBI:87034

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C8H10O
Charge	0
Average mass	122.167 Da
Monoisotopic mass	122.07316 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	KUFFULVDNCHOFZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

Cc1ccc(O)c(C)c1

InChI

InChI=1S/C8H10O/c1-6-3-4-8(9)7(2)5-6/h3-5,9H,1-2H3

Also called

2,4-dimethylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1,3-dimethyl-4-hydroxybenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-hydroxy-2,4-dimethylbenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2,4-DMP (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-methyl-p-cresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
4,6-dimethylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
4-hydroxy-1,3-dimethylbenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
4-hydroxy-m-xylene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
asym-m-xylenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
gallex (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
m-xylenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:105-67-9
chemspider:13839123
hmdb:HMDB0245456
kegg.compound:C14582
knapsack:C00052596
metacyc.compound:CPD-18280
pdb-ccd:N0D
ppdb:1619
reaxys:636244

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:24127 CHEBI:24127
CHEBI:48219 CHEBI:48219

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:34241`	2,4-xylenol	`antibioticmech:chebi-37b9322c82`	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.