ethylparaben

CHEBI:31575 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

An ethyl ester resulting from the formal condensation of the carboxy group of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid with ethanol, — 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:23990 CHEBI:23990
CHEBI:85122 CHEBI:85122

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C9H10O3
Charge	0
Average mass	166.176 Da
Monoisotopic mass	166.06299 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	NUVBSKCKDOMJSU-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCOC(=O)c1ccc(O)cc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C9H10O3/c1-2-12-9(11)7-3-5-8(10)6-4-7/h3-6,10H,2H2,1H3

Also called

ethyl 4-hydroxybenzoate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
4-hydroxybenzoic acid ethyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
E-214 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
E214 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Ethyl parahydroxybenzoate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethyl p-hydroxybenzoate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethyl paraben (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
p-Oxybenzoesaeureaethylester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
p-hydroxybenzoic acid ethyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:120-47-8
drugcentral:4773
hmdb:HMDB0032573
kegg.drug:D01647
knapsack:C00033837
pdb-ccd:E4B
reaxys:1101972
wikipedia.en:Ethylparaben

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:35718 CHEBI:35718
CHEBI:65256 CHEBI:65256

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:31575`	ethylparaben	`antibioticmech:chebi-b38d1685ee`	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.