Home › Entities › biogenic benzofuran › benzofuran

benzofuran

heterocyclic compound consisting of fused benzene and furan rings
Class type of: biogenic benzofuran Q410089

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
type of chemical entity
Subclass of
biogenic benzofuran[4]
Canonical SMILES
C1=CC=C2C(=C1)C=CO2[2]
Chemical formula
C₈H₆O[3]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12]
Found in taxon
Vitex agnus-castus, Curcuma aromatica, Curcuma wenyujin, Scleromitrion diffusum, Cascabela thevetia, Thevetia peruviana, Allamanda cathartica[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Mass
+118.042[13]
Subject has role
carcinogen[14]
🏷️ Also known as
en benzofuran en benzoxole ar بنزو فيوران ar بنزوفوران de Kumaron de Cumaron es Benzofurano fi 2,3-bentsofuraani fi bentsofuraani fi Kumaroni fr 271-89-6 fr Benzofurane fr Benzofuranne fr Coumarone hi बेन्जोफ्यूरान hu benzofurán it C8H6O1 it Cumarone ja ベンゾフラン ko 벤조퓨란
🔖 Identifiers · 48
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85013243
GND ID
4144532-6
OpenAlex ID
C2776589655
BNCF Thesaurus ID
71610
CA PROP 65 ID
benzofuran
CAMEO Chemicals ID
19862
CAS Registry Number
271-89-6
ChEBI ID
35260
ChEMBL ID
CHEMBL363614
ChemSpider ID
8868
DSSTOX compound identifier
DTXCID20141
DSSTox substance ID
DTXSID6020141
Show all 48 identifiers +36
DrugBank ID
DB04179
EC number
205-982-6
ECHA Substance Infocard ID
100.005.439
Freebase ID
/m/04ygj8
Gmelin number
260881
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1226m24g
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
benzofuran
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0084067
HSDB ID
4173
Human Metabolome Database ID
HMDB0032929
ICSC ID
0388
InChI
InChI=1S/C8H6O/c1-2-4-8-7(3-1)5-6-9-8/h1-6H
InChIKey
IANQTJSKSUMEQM-UHFFFAOYSA-N
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
benzofurans
KEGG ID
C14512
KNApSAcK ID
C00054105
MassBank accession ID
MSBNK-Fac_Eng_Univ_Tokyo-JP011801
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2776589655
NDL Authority ID
00566979
NMRShiftDB structure ID
10017589
NSC number
1255
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007283132005171
PDB ligand ID
BZF
PDB structure ID
182L
Probes And Drugs ID
PD006903
PubChem CID
9223
Reaxys registry number
107704
Römpp online ID
RD-02-00833
SPLASH
splash10-014i-9700000000-e2e60a740f22f28eaf54
SureChEMBL ID
5564
UNII
LK6946W774
UniChem compound ID
141799
Wellcome Collection concept ID
ebzqrrhf
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
14922252-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/52797305-5954-431c-b6e0-cd758100d930
ZVG number
30970

Report an error or request removal Lineage (PROV-JSON)

🔗 Connections
Found in taxon 5
Vitex agnus-castus, Cascabela thevetia, Allamanda cathartica, Curcuma aromatica, Scleromitrion diffusum
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Subject has role 1
carcinogen
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Benzofurans
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

benzofuran is a type of chemical entity[1].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). benzofuran. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/benzofuran
MLA “benzofuran.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 6 Nov. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/benzofuran.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_benzofuran_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{benzofuran}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/benzofuran}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-06}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): benzofuran — https://4ort.xyz/entity/benzofuran (retrieved 2026-11-06)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/benzofuran · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    ZVG number → 30970
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ ZVG number: 30970, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P679]]"
  2. 6w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    ZVG number → 30970
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ ZVG number: 030970, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/275042|batch #275042]]"
  3. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → biogenic benzofuran
    Subject has role → carcinogen
    Subclass of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007283132005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.