CHEBI:41218 - mercaptoethanol

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ChEBI Name mercaptoethanol
ChEBI ID CHEBI:41218
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:41215, CHEBI:6766
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Formula C2H6OS
Net Charge 0
Average Mass 78.13444
Monoisotopic Mass 78.01394
InChI InChI=1S/C2H6OS/c3-1-2-4/h3-4H,1-2H2
InChIKey DGVVWUTYPXICAM-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES OCCS
Roles Classification
Application(s): geroprotector
Any compound that supports healthy aging, slows the biological aging process, or extends lifespan.
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ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing mercaptoethanol (CHEBI:41218) has role geroprotector (CHEBI:176497)
mercaptoethanol (CHEBI:41218) is a alkanethiol (CHEBI:47908)
mercaptoethanol (CHEBI:41218) is a primary alcohol (CHEBI:15734)
Incoming 2-methylthioethanol (CHEBI:63861) has functional parent mercaptoethanol (CHEBI:41218)
sulfocholine (CHEBI:63035) has functional parent mercaptoethanol (CHEBI:41218)
thiodiglycol (CHEBI:75184) has functional parent mercaptoethanol (CHEBI:41218)
IUPAC Name
2-sulfanylethanol
Synonyms Sources
2-Mercaptoethanol KEGG COMPOUND
β-mercaptoethanol ChEBI
BETA-MERCAPTOETHANOL PDBeChem
Mercaptoethanol KEGG COMPOUND
Thioglycol KEGG COMPOUND
Manual Xrefs Databases
BME PDBeChem
C00928 KEGG COMPOUND
DB03345 DrugBank
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Registry Numbers Types Sources
1368 Gmelin Registry Number Gmelin
60-24-2 CAS Registry Number NIST Chemistry WebBook
60-24-2 CAS Registry Number ChemIDplus
773648 Beilstein Registry Number Beilstein
Citation Waiting for Citations Type Source
6334792 PubMed citation Europe PMC
Last Modified
20 September 2021