The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.
A beta-hydroxy ketone that is (5R)-5-hydroxyheptan-3-one substituted by a phenyl group at position 1 and a 4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl moiety at position 7. Isolated from Alpinia officinarum, it exhibits antiviral activity against influenza virus.