carvacrol

CHEBI:3440 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A phenol that is a natural monoterpene derivative of cymene. An inhibitor of bacterial growth, it is used as a food additive. Potent activator of the human ion channels transient receptor potential V3 (TRPV3) and A1 (TRPA1). — 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:25186
Label unavailable CHEBI:33853
botanical anti-fungal agent CHEBI:86494

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C10H14O
Charge	0
Average mass	150.221 Da
Monoisotopic mass	150.10447 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	RECUKUPTGUEGMW-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

Cc1ccc(C(C)C)cc1O

InChI

InChI=1S/C10H14O/c1-7(2)9-5-4-8(3)10(11)6-9/h4-7,11H,1-3H3

Also called

2-methyl-5-(propan-2-yl)phenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-Hydroxy-2-methyl-5-isopropylbenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-Methyl-2-hydroxy-4-isopropylbenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Hydroxy-p-cymene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Methyl-5-(1-methylethyl)phenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Methyl-5-isopropylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-p-Cymenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3-Isopropyl-6-methylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
5-Isopropyl-2-methylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
5-Isopropyl-o-cresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Carvacrol (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:Carvacrol

Activity roles

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

antimicrobial agent CHEBI:33281
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:3440`	carvacrol	`antibioticmech:chebi-5246386aa4`	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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