sodium benzoate

CHEBI:113455 ·resolve ·BIOCIDE ·EXACT SEEDED

An organic sodium salt resulting from the replacement of the proton from the carboxy group of benzoic acid by a sodium ion. — 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:38700

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C7H5O2.Na
Charge	0
Average mass	144.105 Da
Monoisotopic mass	144.01872 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	WXMKPNITSTVMEF-UHFFFAOYSA-M

SMILES

O=C([O-])c1ccccc1.[Na+]

InChI

InChI=1S/C7H6O2.Na/c8-7(9)6-4-2-1-3-5-6;/h1-5H,(H,8,9);/q;+1/p-1

Also called

Sodium benzoate (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
Benzoic acid, sodium salt (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
E211 (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.

cas:532-32-1
reaxys:1100243

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.

kegg.drug:D02277

Patents and articles

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

wikipedia.en:Sodium_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:113455`	sodium benzoate	`antibioticmech:chebi-603779e9f6`	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 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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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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