p-cresol

CHEBI:17847 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A cresol that consists of toluene substituted by a hydroxy group at position 4. It is a metabolite of aromatic amino acid metabolism produced by intestinal microflora in humans and animals. — 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	IWDCLRJOBJJRNH-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

Cc1ccc(O)cc1

InChI

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

Also called

4-methylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-hydroxy-4-methylbenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
4-Cresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
4-Hydroxytoluene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
4-Methylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
P-CRESOL (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
p-Cresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
p-Kresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
p-methylphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
p-tolyl alcohol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
paracresol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:106-44-5
drugbank:DB01688
gmelin:2779
hmdb:HMDB0001858
kegg.compound:C01468
knapsack:C00002645
metacyc.compound:CPD-108
pdb-ccd:PCR
reaxys:1305151
umbbd.compound:c0127
wikipedia.en:P-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:17847`	p-cresol	`antibioticmech:chebi-900884e50a`	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.