salicylic acid

CHEBI:16914 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A monohydroxybenzoic acid that is benzoic acid with a hydroxy group at the ortho position. It is obtained from the bark of the white willow and wintergreen leaves. — 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:25389 CHEBI:25389

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C7H6O3
Charge	0
Average mass	138.122 Da
Monoisotopic mass	138.03169 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	YGSDEFSMJLZEOE-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

O=C(O)c1ccccc1O

InChI

InChI=1S/C7H6O3/c8-6-4-2-1-3-5(6)7(9)10/h1-4,8H,(H,9,10)

Also called

2-hydroxybenzoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-carboxyphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Salicylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
o-Hydroxybenzoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
o-carboxyphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
o-hydroxybenzoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:69-72-7
drugbank:DB00936
drugcentral:2416
gmelin:3418
hmdb:HMDB0001895
kegg.compound:C00805
kegg.drug:D00097
knapsack:C00000206
lincs.smallmolecule:LSM-4763
metacyc.compound:CPD-110
pdb-ccd:SAL
reaxys:774890
wikipedia.en:Salicylic_Acid

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:35718 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:16914`	salicylic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-339163f7d0`	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.