biphenyl

CHEBI:17097 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A benzenoid aromatic compound that consists of two benzene rings connected by a single covalent bond. Biphenyl occurs naturally in coal tar, crude oil, and natural gas. Formerly used as a fungicide for citrus crops. — 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:22712
Label unavailable CHEBI:22888
aromatic fungicide CHEBI:87034

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C12H10
Charge	0
Average mass	154.212 Da
Monoisotopic mass	154.07825 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	ZUOUZKKEUPVFJK-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

c1ccc(-c2ccccc2)cc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C12H10/c1-3-7-11(8-4-1)12-9-5-2-6-10-12/h1-10H

Also called

1,1'-biphenyl (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1,1'-Biphenyl (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1,1'-Diphenyl (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Biphenyl (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
E230 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Phenylbenzene (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.

Patents and articles

Documents about this compound. A patent covers a class and an article covers a topic; neither identifies a structure.

wikipedia.en:Biphenyl

Activity roles

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

fungicide CHEBI:24127
antimicrobial food preservative CHEBI:65256
antifungal agrochemical 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:17097`	biphenyl	`antibioticmech:chebi-cc9fb18e3b`	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
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · 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 (YAML).

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