obtusafuran

CHEBI:66804 ·resolve ·ANTIPROTOZOAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A member of the class of 1-benzofurans that is 2,3-dihydro-1-benzofuran substituted by a hydroxy group at position 5, a methoxy group at position 6, a methyl group at position 3 and a phenyl group at position 2. Isolated from Dalbergia louveli, it exhibits antiplasmodial activity. — 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:33853 CHEBI:33853
CHEBI:35618 CHEBI:35618
CHEBI:38830 CHEBI:38830

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C16H16O3
Charge	0
Average mass	256.301 Da
Monoisotopic mass	256.10994 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	FRERFZXINXYHDY-QLJPJBMISA-N

SMILES

COc1cc2c(cc1O)[C@@H](C)[C@H](c1ccccc1)O2

InChI

InChI=1S/C16H16O3/c1-10-12-8-13(17)15(18-2)9-14(12)19-16(10)11-6-4-3-5-7-11/h3-10,16-17H,1-2H3/t10-,16-/m1/s1

Also called

(2R,3R)-6-methoxy-3-methyl-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1-benzofuran-5-ol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
(2R,3R)-5-hydroxy-6-methoxy-3-methyl-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydrobenzofuran (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

reaxys:1431004

Activity roles

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

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:66804`	obtusafuran	`antibioticmech:chebi-62b9ab49bf`	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.