propyl benzoate

CHEBI:156072 ·resolve ·BIOCIDE ·EXACT SEEDED

A benzoate ester obtained by condensation of benzoic acid and propanol. It has a balsamic odor reminescent of nuts with a sweet, fruity, nut-like taste. — 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	C10H12O2
Charge	0
Average mass	164.204 Da
Monoisotopic mass	164.08373 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	UDEWPOVQBGFNGE-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCCOC(=O)c1ccccc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C10H12O2/c1-2-8-12-10(11)9-6-4-3-5-7-9/h3-7H,2,8H2,1H3

Also called

Benzoic acid, propyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
benzoic acid n-propyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
benzoic acid propyl ester (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-propyl benzenecarboxylate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
n-propyl benzoate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
propyl benzenecarboxylate (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.

Patents and articles

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

wikipedia.en:Propyl_benzoate

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:156072`	propyl benzoate	`antibioticmech:chebi-44d05622f0`	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 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
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Provenance

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