guaiacol

CHEBI:28591 ·resolve ·BIOCIDE ·EXACT SEEDED

A monomethoxybenzene that consists of phenol with a methoxy substituent at the ortho position. — 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:134251 CHEBI:134251

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C7H8O2
Charge	0
Average mass	124.139 Da
Monoisotopic mass	124.05243 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	LHGVFZTZFXWLCP-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

COc1ccccc1O

InChI

InChI=1S/C7H8O2/c1-9-7-5-3-2-4-6(7)8/h2-5,8H,1H3

Also called

2-methoxyphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
1-Hydroxy-2-methoxybenzene (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-Hydroxyanisole (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Catechol monomethyl ether (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Guaiacol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
o-Methoxyphenol (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:90-05-1
drugcentral:1334
hmdb:HMDB0001398
kegg.compound:C01502
kegg.compound:C15572
kegg.drug:D00117
knapsack:C00002654
knapsack:C00029459
lincs.smallmolecule:LSM-6001
metacyc.compound:CPD-400
patent:RU94026717
pdb-ccd:JZ3
reaxys:508112
wikipedia.en:Guaiacol

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:48219 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:28591`	guaiacol	`antibioticmech:chebi-b83f87282d`	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.