ethanol

CHEBI:16236 ·resolve ·BIOCIDE ·EXACT SEEDED

A primary alcohol that is ethane in which one of the hydrogens is substituted by a hydroxy group. — 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:134179
Label unavailable CHEBI:15734
Label unavailable CHEBI:23982
Label unavailable CHEBI:50584

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C2H6O
Charge	0
Average mass	46.069 Da
Monoisotopic mass	46.04186 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	LFQSCWFLJHTTHZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCO

InChI

InChI=1S/C2H6O/c1-2-3/h3H,2H2,1H3

Also called

Dehydrated ethanol (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
1-hydroxyethane (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Alkohol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
C2H5OH (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ETHANOL (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
EtOH (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Ethanol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Ethyl alcohol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Methylcarbinol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
[CH2Me(OH)] (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
[OEtH] (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
alcohol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
alcohol etílico (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
alcool éthylique (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
etanol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
hydroxyethane (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
spiritus vini (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Äthanol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Äthylalkohol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
éthanol (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:Ethanol

Activity roles

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

disinfectant CHEBI:48219

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:16236`	ethanol	`antibioticmech:chebi-23413c383b`	2026-08-30

Mechanism summary

Clinical status: APPROVED

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 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
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Provenance

Seeded by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record (YAML).

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