potassium permanganate
CHEBI:231501
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An inorganic potassium salt of permanganic acid. — 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.
Chemical structure
Computed structure properties
| Molecular formula | K.MnO4 |
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| Charge | 0 |
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| Average mass | 158.032 Da |
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| Monoisotopic mass | 157.88141 Da |
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| Source | ChEBI |
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| InChIKey | VZJVWSHVAAUDKD-UHFFFAOYSA-N |
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SMILES
[K+].[O]=[Mn](=[O])(=[O])[O-]
InChI
InChI=1S/K.Mn.4O/q+1;;;;;-1
Also called
- potassium tetraoxidomanganate(1−) (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- Chameleon mineral (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- Condy's crystals (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- KMnO4 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- permanganate of potash (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- permanganic acid (HMnO4), potassium salt (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- permanganic acid potassium salt (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- potassium manganate(VII) (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Cross-references
Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.
Activity roles
Every antimicrobial role a source asserts for this compound — the
unreduced evidence behind its antimicrobial_class.
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 |
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| CHEBI |
CHEBI:231501 |
potassium permanganate |
antibioticmech:chebi-8d0ccca78b |
2026-08-30 |
Curation history
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2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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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/.
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