3-acetylbenzamide

CHEBI:141284 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A methyl ketone that is benzamide in which one of the meta hydrogens has been replaced by an acetyl group. It is a bacterial secondary metabolite from actinomycete strain WA23-4-4 isolated from the intestinal tract of Periplaneta americana (American cockroach), it shows significant antifungal activity against Candida albicans ATCC 10231 and Aspergillus niger ATCC 16404 but is less active against Trichophyton rubrum ATCC 60836 and Aspergillus fumigatus ATCC 96918. — 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:140324
Label unavailable CHEBI:22702
Label unavailable CHEBI:51867
Label unavailable CHEBI:76224

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C9H9NO2
Charge	0
Average mass	163.176 Da
Monoisotopic mass	163.06333 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	VTBUZDRQHQPEQY-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CC(=O)c1cccc(C(N)=O)c1

InChI

InChI=1S/C9H9NO2/c1-6(11)7-3-2-4-8(5-7)9(10)12/h2-5H,1H3,(H2,10,12)

Also called

m-acetylbenzoylamide (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.

reaxys:4969128

Activity roles

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

antifungal agent CHEBI:35718

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:141284`	3-acetylbenzamide	`antibioticmech:chebi-bfd1fbd454`	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

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