butyl benzoate

CHEBI:156070 ·resolve ·BIOCIDE ·EXACT SEEDED

A benzoate ester obtained by condensation of benzoic acid and butanol. It is used as a perfume ingredient and as a solvent for cellulose ether, a dye carrier for textiles. — 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:36054

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C11H14O2
Charge	0
Average mass	178.231 Da
Monoisotopic mass	178.09938 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	XSIFPSYPOVKYCO-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCCCOC(=O)c1ccccc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C11H14O2/c1-2-3-9-13-11(12)10-7-5-4-6-8-10/h4-8H,2-3,9H2,1H3

Also called

Anthrapole AZ (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Dai Cari XBN (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Benzoic acid, butyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
benzoic acid butyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
benzoic acid n-butyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-butyl benzoate (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.

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:156070`	butyl benzoate	`antibioticmech:chebi-29dd02dcb7`	2026-08-30

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

Provenance

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