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 member of the class of pyrrolidin-2-ones that is pyrrolidine-2,3-dione which is substituted by two methyl groups at position 4 and by a 4-hydroxybenzyl group at position 5. It is a biologically active redox cofactor used by Mycobacterium smegmatis carveol dehydrogenase in the oxidation of carveol.