acetic acid

CHEBI:15366 ·resolve ·BIOCIDE ·EXACT SEEDED

A simple monocarboxylic acid containing two carbons. — 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:25384 CHEBI:25384

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C2H4O2
Charge	0
Average mass	60.052 Da
Monoisotopic mass	60.02113 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	QTBSBXVTEAMEQO-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CC(=O)O

InChI

InChI=1S/C2H4O2/c1-2(3)4/h1H3,(H,3,4)

Also called

ACETIC ACID (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
AcOH (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Acetic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
CH3CO2H (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
CH3‒COOH (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
E 260 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
E-260 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
E260 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Essigsäure (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Ethanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Ethylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
HOAc (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
INS No. 260 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
MeCO2H (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
MeCOOH (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Methanecarboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
acide acétique (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:64-19-7
drugcentral:4211
gmelin:1380
hmdb:HMDB0000042
kegg.compound:C00033
kegg.drug:D00010
knapsack:C00001176
lipidmaps:LMFA01010002
metacyc.compound:ACET
pdb-ccd:ACT
pdb-ccd:ACY
ppdb:1333
reaxys:506007
wikipedia.en:Acetic_acid

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:65256 CHEBI:65256

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:15366`	acetic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-8cf5782fb8`	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.