gentisyl alcohol (CHEBI:5325)

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ChEBI Name	gentisyl alcohol

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:5325

Definition	An aromatic primary alcohol that is benzyl alcohol substituted by hydroxy groups at positions 2 and 5.

Stars	This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.

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Formula

C7H8O3

Net Charge

Average Mass

140.138

Monoisotopic Mass

140.04734

InChI

InChI=1S/C7H8O3/c8-4-5-3-6(9)1-2-7(5)10/h1-3,8-10H,4H2

InChIKey

PUZSUVGRVHEUQO-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

C=1(C=C(C(=CC1)O)CO)O

Metabolite of Species	Details
Arthrinium sp. (NCBI:txid1756131)	See: PubMed
Phyllosticta sp. (NCBI:txid1886407)	Found in cell suspension culture (BTO:0000221). See: DOI
Penicillium novae-zeelandiae (NCBI:txid434487)	See: PubMed
Aspergillus parasiticus (NCBI:txid5067)	See: DOI
Penicillium roqueforti (NCBI:txid5082)	See: Book: John W. Blunt, Murray H. G. Munro. Dictionary of Marine Natural Products with CD-ROM, D-597.
Phoma herbarum (NCBI:txid73001)	See: PubMed

Roles Classification
Chemical Role(s):	antioxidant A substance that opposes oxidation or inhibits reactions brought about by dioxygen or peroxides.

Biological Role(s):	apoptosis inhibitor Any substance that inhibits the process of apoptosis (programmed cell death) in multi-celled organisms. fungal metabolite Any eukaryotic metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in fungi, the kingdom that includes microorganisms such as the yeasts and moulds.

Application(s):	antineoplastic agent A substance that inhibits or prevents the proliferation of neoplasms.

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	gentisyl alcohol (CHEBI:5325) has functional parent benzyl alcohol (CHEBI:17987) gentisyl alcohol (CHEBI:5325) has functional parent hydroquinone (CHEBI:17594) gentisyl alcohol (CHEBI:5325) has role antineoplastic agent (CHEBI:35610) gentisyl alcohol (CHEBI:5325) has role antioxidant (CHEBI:22586) gentisyl alcohol (CHEBI:5325) has role apoptosis inhibitor (CHEBI:68494) gentisyl alcohol (CHEBI:5325) has role fungal metabolite (CHEBI:76946) gentisyl alcohol (CHEBI:5325) is a aromatic primary alcohol (CHEBI:33857) gentisyl alcohol (CHEBI:5325) is a phenols (CHEBI:33853)

IUPAC Name

2-(hydroxymethyl)benzene-1,4-diol

Last Modified

15 October 2019