m-cresol

CHEBI:17231 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A cresol with the methyl substituent at position 3. It is a minor urinary metabolite of toluene. — 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:25399 CHEBI:25399

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C7H8O
Charge	0
Average mass	108.14 Da
Monoisotopic mass	108.05751 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	RLSSMJSEOOYNOY-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

Cc1cccc(O)c1

InChI

InChI=1S/C7H8O/c1-6-3-2-4-7(8)5-6/h2-5,8H,1H3

Also called

3-methylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-hydroxy-3-methylbenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3-Cresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3-Hydroxytoluene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
M-CRESOL (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
m-Cresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
m-Kresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
m-methylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
meta-cresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
metacresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:108-39-4
drugbank:DB01776
gmelin:101411
hmdb:HMDB0002048
kegg.compound:C01467
kegg.drug:D04951
metacyc.compound:CPD-112
pdb-ccd:CRS
reaxys:506719
umbbd.compound:c0282
wikipedia.en:M-cresol

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:24127 CHEBI:24127

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:17231`	m-cresol	`antibioticmech:chebi-5714ca573a`	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.