dihydroxyacetone

CHEBI:16016 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A ketotriose consisting of acetone bearing hydroxy substituents at positions 1 and 3. The simplest member of the class of ketoses and the parent of the class of glycerones. — 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:139590 CHEBI:139590
CHEBI:24982 CHEBI:24982

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C3H6O3
Charge	0
Average mass	90.078 Da
Monoisotopic mass	90.03169 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	RXKJFZQQPQGTFL-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

O=C(CO)CO

InChI

InChI=1S/C3H6O3/c4-1-3(6)2-5/h4-5H,1-2H2

Also called

1,3-dihydroxypropan-2-one (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1,3-Dihydroxy-2-propanone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1,3-Dihydroxyacetone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1,3-Dihydroxydimethyl ketone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1,3-Dihydroxypropan-2-one (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1,3-Dihydroxypropanone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1,3-propanediol-2-one (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Bis(hydroxymethyl) ketone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
DHA (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
DIHYDROXYACETONE (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Dihydroxyacetone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Glycerone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
α,α'-dihydroxyacetone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:96-26-4
drugbank:DB01775
hmdb:HMDB0001882
kegg.compound:C00184
kegg.drug:D07841
metacyc.compound:DIHYDROXYACETONE
pdb-ccd:2HA
reaxys:1740268
wikipedia.en:Dihydroxyacetone

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:35718 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:16016`	dihydroxyacetone	`antibioticmech:chebi-b74325056a`	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.