biphenyl-2-ol

CHEBI:17043 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A member of the class of hydroxybiphenyls that is biphenyl substituted by a hydroxy group at position 2. It is generally used as a post-harvest fungicide for citrus fruits. — 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:24681 CHEBI:24681

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C12H10O
Charge	0
Average mass	170.211 Da
Monoisotopic mass	170.07316 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	LLEMOWNGBBNAJR-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

Oc1ccccc1-c1ccccc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C12H10O/c13-12-9-5-4-8-11(12)10-6-2-1-3-7-10/h1-9,13H

Also called

[1,1'-biphenyl]-2-ol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Biphenylol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Hydroxybiphenyl (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Phenylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Orthophenyl phenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
o-diphenylol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
o-hydroxybiphenyl (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
o-hydroxydiphenyl (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
o-phenylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:90-43-7
drugcentral:4768
hmdb:HMDB0032582
kegg.compound:C02499
kegg.drug:D08367
ppdb:1340
reaxys:606907
umbbd.compound:c0269
wikipedia.en:Biphenyl-2-ol

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:86328 CHEBI:86328

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:17043`	biphenyl-2-ol	`antibioticmech:chebi-bb66be0613`	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.