undecanoic acid

CHEBI:32368 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A straight-chain, eleven-carbon saturated medium-chain fatty acid found in body fluids; the most fungitoxic of the C7:0 - C18:0 fatty acid series. — 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:39418
Label unavailable CHEBI:59554

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C11H22O2
Charge	0
Average mass	186.295 Da
Monoisotopic mass	186.16198 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	ZDPHROOEEOARMN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCCCCCCCCCC(=O)O

InChI

InChI=1S/C11H22O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11(12)13/h2-10H2,1H3,(H,12,13)

Also called

1-decanecarboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
CH3‒[CH2]9‒COOH (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Hendecanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
UDA (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Undekansäure (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
hendecanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-undecanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-undecoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-undecylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
undecoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
undecylic acid (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:Undecylic_acid

Activity roles

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

antifungal agent 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:32368`	undecanoic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-c785ca1022`	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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