peracetic acid

CHEBI:42530 ·resolve ·BIOCIDE ·EXACT SEEDED

A peroxy acid that is acetic acid in which the OH group is substituted by a hydroperoxy group. It is a versatile oxidising agent that is used as a disinfectant. — 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:177878

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C2H4O3
Charge	0
Average mass	76.051 Da
Monoisotopic mass	76.01604 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	KFSLWBXXFJQRDL-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CC(=O)OO

InChI

InChI=1S/C2H4O3/c1-2(3)5-4/h4H,1H3

Also called

Acecide (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Desoxon 1 (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Estosteril (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Osbon AC (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Proxitane 4002 (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
ethaneperoxoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
PAA (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
acetic peroxide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
acetyl hydroperoxide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
acide peracetique (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
acido peroxiacetico (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ethaneperoxic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
monoperacetic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
peroxoacetic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
peroxyacetic acid (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

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Patents and articles

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

wikipedia.en:Peracetic_acid

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:42530`	peracetic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-745a37cffa`	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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