o-cresol

CHEBI:28054 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A cresol that is phenol substituted by a methyl group at position 2. 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	QWVGKYWNOKOFNN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

Cc1ccccc1O

InChI

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

Also called

2-methylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-hydroxy-2-methylbenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Hydroxytoluene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-cresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-hydroxy-1-methylbenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-hydroxytoluene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
o-Cresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
o-Kresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
o-Methylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
o-cresylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ortho-cresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
orthocresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:95-48-7
gmelin:101619
hmdb:HMDB0002055
kegg.compound:C01542
knapsack:C00030878
pdb-ccd:JZ0
reaxys:506917
umbbd.compound:c0281
wikipedia.en:O-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:28054`	o-cresol	`antibioticmech:chebi-d5bcc5b204`	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.