benzoic acid

CHEBI:30746 ·resolve ·BIOCIDE ·EXACT SEEDED

A compound comprising a benzene ring core carrying a carboxylic acid substituent. — 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:22723

Chemical structure

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

SMILES

O=C(O)c1ccccc1

InChI

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

Also called

Aromatic carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
BENZOIC ACID (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Benzenecarboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Benzeneformic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Benzenemethanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Benzoesäure (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Benzoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Dracylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
E210 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Phenylcarboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Phenylformic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
acide benzoïque (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.

Drug registries

Identifiers that name a drug rather than a structure. One of these can cover a parent compound, its salts and its stereoisomers, which this corpus keeps as separate records, so it is not an equivalence of structure.

Patents and articles

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

wikipedia.en:Benzoic_Acid

Activity roles

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

antimicrobial food preservative 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:30746`	benzoic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-2ee1b2ea08`	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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