propionic acid

CHEBI:30768 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A short-chain saturated fatty acid comprising ethane attached to the carbon of a carboxy group. — 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:26607 CHEBI:26607
CHEBI:26666 CHEBI:26666

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C3H6O2
Charge	0
Average mass	74.079 Da
Monoisotopic mass	74.03678 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	XBDQKXXYIPTUBI-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCC(=O)O

InChI

InChI=1S/C3H6O2/c1-2-3(4)5/h2H2,1H3,(H,4,5)

Also called

propanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
CH3‒CH2‒COOH (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
PA (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
PROPANOIC ACID (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Propanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Propionic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Propionsäure (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
acide propanoïque (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
acide propionique (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
carboxyethane (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethanecarboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethylformic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
metacetonic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
methylacetic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
propioic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
propoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
pseudoacetic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

beilstein:506071
cas:79-09-4
drugbank:DB03766
gmelin:1821
kegg.compound:C00163
kegg.drug:D02310
lipidmaps:LMFA01010003
pdb-ccd:PPI
ppdb:1341

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:86327 CHEBI:86327

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:30768`	propionic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-d0fb298f07`	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.