geranic acid

CHEBI:67264 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A polyunsaturated fatty acid that is octa-2,6-dienoic acid bearing two methyl substituents at positions 3 and 7 (the 2E-isomer). — 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:25409
Label unavailable CHEBI:26208
Label unavailable CHEBI:62499
Label unavailable CHEBI:79020

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C10H16O2
Charge	0
Average mass	168.236 Da
Monoisotopic mass	168.11503 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	ZHYZQXUYZJNEHD-VQHVLOKHSA-N

SMILES

CC(C)=CCC/C(C)=C/C(=O)O

InChI

InChI=1S/C10H16O2/c1-8(2)5-4-6-9(3)7-10(11)12/h5,7H,4,6H2,1-3H3,(H,11,12)/b9-7+

Also called

(2E)-3,7-dimethylocta-2,6-dienoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
(E)-3,7-dimethylocta-2,6-dienoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3,7-Dimethyl-2E,6-octadienoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3,7-Dimethylocta-2,6-dienoate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Geranilyc acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Geranoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
trans-3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadien-1-oic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
trans-geranic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
trans-geranoic acid (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.

Activity roles

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

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:67264`	geranic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-d324444dfe`	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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