diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index e5daae223997..a636dd19c918 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1860,6 +1860,7 @@ mapAliases {
   openai-triton-llvm = triton-llvm; # added 2024-07-18
   openai-whisper-cpp = whisper-cpp; # Added 2024-12-13
   openbabel2 = throw "openbabel2 has been removed, as it was unused and unmaintained upstream; please use openbabel"; # Added 2025-09-17
+  openbabel3 = openbabel; # Added 2025-09-17
   opencv2 = throw "opencv2 has been removed as it is obsolete and was not used by any other package; please migrate to OpenCV 4"; # Added 2024-08-20
   opencv3 = throw "opencv3 has been removed as it is obsolete and was not used by any other package; please migrate to OpenCV 4"; # Added 2024-08-20
   openafs_1_8 = openafs; # Added 2022-08-22
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8abbf6ead7fd..aadc120ac4ff 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8489,9 +8489,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   openal = openalSoft;
 
-  openbabel = openbabel3;
-
-  openbabel3 = callPackage ../development/libraries/openbabel { };
+  openbabel = callPackage ../development/libraries/openbabel { };
 
   opencascade-occt_7_6 = opencascade-occt.overrideAttrs rec {
     pname = "opencascade-occt";