Benzoic Acid

Benzoic Acid

SCHEMBL1899474

CC(C)CN.O=C(O)c1ccccc1

nearest known ligand 0.61

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Known targets — ChEMBL curated mechanism

CACNA1CCACNA1DCACNA1FCACNA1SDPP4HTR1BHTR1D

The experimentally established mechanism targets of Benzoic Acid. The predicted profile below is derived independently by chemical similarity — agreement is a validation signal, a miss is honest.

Predicted protein targets (top 20)

geneUniProtsupporting neighboursconfidence
TSHR P16473 3/20 0.61
DAO P14920 1/20 0.61
NAPRT Q6XQN6 1/20 0.61
CES1 P23141 2/20 0.52
CES2 O00748 1/20 0.52
SRD5A2 P31213 1/20 0.52
TAAR1 Q96RJ0 3/20 0.47
TP53 P04637 1/20 0.46
MAPK1 P28482 2/20 0.46
MAPT P10636 3/20 0.44
CYP3A4 P08684 2/20 0.44
TDP1 Q9NUW8 2/20 0.44
POLB P06746 1/20 0.44
PARP1 P09874 1/20 0.44
CYP2C19 P33261 1/20 0.44
RECQL P46063 1/20 0.44
BLM P54132 1/20 0.44
PMP22 Q01453 1/20 0.44
HSD17B10 Q99714 1/20 0.44
L3MBTL1 Q9Y468 1/20 0.44

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Similar compounds — the chemically nearest patent molecules

Nearest neighbours by Morgan-fingerprint cosine across the patent-compound collection, with each neighbour's top predicted target and the predicted targets it shares with this molecule.

Compoundsimilaritytop predictedshared targets
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL29134030 0.89 TSHR (0.58) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL247596 0.84 TSHR (0.64) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL601642 0.84 TSHR (0.70) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL1899964 0.84 TSHR (0.70) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL28327607 0.84 TSHR (0.78) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL31376992 0.84 TSHR (0.78) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL28565102 0.83 TSHR (0.61) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL1833087 0.82 TSHR (0.67) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL10952729 0.81 TSHR (0.74) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL11767340 0.81 TSHR (0.74) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2

Similarity is cosine over the 2,048-bit Morgan fingerprint (≈ Tanimoto). Identical fingerprints score 1.00.

Patent provenance — the patents this molecule appears in, and who filed them

Claimed or disclosed in 56 patents — showing the first 20. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.

PatentTitleAssigneePublishedPriorityFilingCountryStatus
US-9365596-B2 Method for preparing quaternary phosphonium salts MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD. (CN) 2016-06-14 US claimed
US-20150166587-A1 METHOD FOR PREPARING QUATERNARY PHOSPHONIUM SALTS MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD. (CN) 2015-06-18 US claimed
EP-3416176-B1 ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION FOR ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR AND ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR UTILIZING SAID ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION SANYO CHEMICAL IND LTD (JP) 2026-01-07 EP disclosed
EP-3480835-B1 ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION FOR ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR, AND ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR SANYO CHEMICAL IND LTD (JP) 2022-12-21 EP disclosed
US-11527365-B2 Electrolytic solution for electrolytic capacitor, and electrolytic capacitor SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD. (JP) 2022-12-13 US disclosed
US-11424078-B2 Electrolytic solution for electrolytic capacitor, and electrolytic capacitor SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD. (JP) 2022-08-23 US disclosed
CN-111247611-B Electrolytic solution for electrolytic capacitor and electrolytic capacitor 三洋化成工业株式会社 2022-07-05 CN disclosed
US-11309136-B2 Electrolyte solution for electrolytic capacitor and electrolytic capacitor utilizing said electrolyte solution SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD. (JP) 2022-04-19 US disclosed
CN-109313987-B Electrolytic solution for electrolytic capacitor and electrolytic capacitor 三洋化成工业株式会社 2021-06-29 CN disclosed
US-20210193394-A1 ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION FOR ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR AND ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR UTILIZING SAID ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD. (JP) 2021-06-24 US disclosed
US-20200294724-A1 ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION FOR ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR, AND ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD. (JP) 2020-09-17 US disclosed
EP-1548769-A1 ELECTROLYTE FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITOR AND ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITOR CONTAINING THE SAME SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD. (JP) 2005-06-29 EP disclosed
EP-0381936-B1 An electrolyte for use in electrolytic capacitors MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO LTD (JP) 1995-11-29 EP disclosed
EP-0291074-B1 PROCESS FOR PRODUCING QUATERNARY SALTS MITSUBISHI PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 1992-01-29 EP disclosed
US-5055974-A Quaternary ammonium salt of boric acid complex MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD. (JP) 1991-10-08 US disclosed
EP-0246825-B1 QUATERNARY SALT SOLUTION ELECTROLYTE FOR ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS MITSUBISHI PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 1991-02-27 EP disclosed
US-4892944-A Process for producing quaternary salts MITSUBISHI PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 1990-01-09 US disclosed
US-4774011-A Electrolyte for aluminum electrolytic capacitor MITSUBISHI PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 1988-09-27 US disclosed
US-4715976-A QUATERNARY AMMONIUM SALT OF CARBOXYLIC ACID IN APROTIC SOLVENT MITSUBISHI PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 1987-12-29 US disclosed
EP-0246825-A2 Quaternary salt solution electrolyte for electrolytic capacitors MITSUBISHI PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 1987-11-25 EP disclosed

Patent text — is the patent's own abstract consistent with the prediction?

For each of this compound's patents that has machine-readable text (1 of them — usually the abstract, not the full specification), we ask MedCPT which protein the text reads most about, and where the chemistry-predicted target lands among 4885 human targets. A high rank means the patent's own wording is consistent with the prediction — a weak, independent signal, not proof of activity.

PatentTitleText reads most aboutPredicted target · text-rank
US-20150166587-A1 METHOD FOR PREPARING QUATERNARY PHOSPHONIUM SALTS PHPT1, PHOSPHO1, PTEN TSHR 2677/4885DAO 1566/4885NAPRT 1680/4885

“Text reads most about” is the patent abstract's nearest protein in MedCPT space (background-debiased). Only ~1.4% of patents have machine-readable text, so most compounds won't have this panel.