gaboroquinone A

CHEBI:65940 ·resolve ·ANTIPROTOZOAL ·EXACT SEEDED

An anthraquinone that is anthracene-9,10-dione substituted by a 3-acetyl-4,6-dihydroxy-2-methoxyphenyl moiety at position 1, hydroxy groups at positions 4 and 5 and a hydroxymethyl group at position 2. Isolated from the roots of Bulbine frutescens, it exhibits antiplasmodial and antitrypanosomal activities. — 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:25235 CHEBI:25235
CHEBI:26195 CHEBI:26195
CHEBI:33572 CHEBI:33572
CHEBI:36820 CHEBI:36820
CHEBI:37484 CHEBI:37484
CHEBI:51867 CHEBI:51867
CHEBI:76224 CHEBI:76224

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C24H18O9
Charge	0
Average mass	450.399 Da
Monoisotopic mass	450.09508 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	KUDYATBIEOTCGT-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

COc1c(C(C)=O)c(O)cc(O)c1-c1c(CO)cc(O)c2c1C(=O)c1cccc(O)c1C2=O

InChI

InChI=1S/C24H18O9/c1-9(26)16-14(29)7-15(30)20(24(16)33-2)17-10(8-25)6-13(28)19-21(17)22(31)11-4-3-5-12(27)18(11)23(19)32/h3-7,25,27-30H,8H2,1-2H3

Also called

1-(3-acetyl-4,6-dihydroxy-2-methoxyphenyl)-4,5-dihydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)anthracene-9,10-dione (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

reaxys:11164249

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:36335 CHEBI:36335
CHEBI:64915 CHEBI:64915

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:65940`	gaboroquinone A	`antibioticmech:chebi-7d5cd3bb00`	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

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