tropolone

CHEBI:79966 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A cyclic ketone that is cyclohepta-2,4,6-trien-1-one substituted by a hydroxy group at position 2. It is a toxin produced by the agricultural pathogen Burkholderia plantarii. — 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.

Label unavailable CHEBI:139588
Label unavailable CHEBI:33823
Label unavailable CHEBI:3992

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C7H6O2
Charge	0
Average mass	122.123 Da
Monoisotopic mass	122.03678 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	MDYOLVRUBBJPFM-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

O=c1cccccc1O

InChI

InChI=1S/C7H6O2/c8-6-4-2-1-3-5-7(6)9/h1-5H,(H,8,9)

Also called

2-hydroxycyclohepta-2,4,6-trien-1-one (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-hydroxy-2,4,6-cycloheptatrien-1-one (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-hydroxycyclohepta-2,4,6-trienone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-hydroxytropone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
purpurocatechol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Identifiers for this same structure in other resources. An accession that lands on two different structures in this corpus is withheld from both rather than shown here, since it names at most one of them.

Patents and articles

Documents about this compound. A patent covers a class and an article covers a topic; neither identifies a structure.

wikipedia.en:Tropolone

Activity roles

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

fungicide 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:79966`	tropolone	`antibioticmech:chebi-4d257d1ed9`	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
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · 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 (YAML).

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