octopamine (CHEBI:17134)

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ChEBI Name	octopamine

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:17134

Definition	A member of the class of phenylethanolamines that is phenol which is substituted at the para- position by a 2-amino-1-hydroxyethyl group. A biogenic phenylethanolamine which has been found to act as a neurotransmitter, neurohormone or neuromodulator in invertebrates.

Stars	This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.

Secondary ChEBI IDs	CHEBI:571, CHEBI:25655, CHEBI:11191

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Formula

C8H11NO2

Net Charge

Average Mass

153.17848

Monoisotopic Mass

153.07898

InChI

InChI=1S/C8H11NO2/c9-5-8(11)6-1-3-7(10)4-2-6/h1-4,8,10-11H,5,9H2

InChIKey

QHGUCRYDKWKLMG-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

NCC(O)c1ccc(O)cc1

Roles Classification
Chemical Role(s):	Bronsted base A molecular entity capable of accepting a hydron from a donor (Bronsted acid). (via organic amino compound )

Biological Role(s):	neurotransmitter An endogenous compound that is used to transmit information across the synapse between a neuron and another cell.

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	octopamine (CHEBI:17134) has role neurotransmitter (CHEBI:25512) octopamine (CHEBI:17134) is a phenylethanolamines (CHEBI:25990) octopamine (CHEBI:17134) is a tyramines (CHEBI:27175) octopamine (CHEBI:17134) is conjugate base of octopaminium (CHEBI:58025)

Incoming	N-acetyloctopamine (CHEBI:125358) has functional parent octopamine (CHEBI:17134) (R)-octopamine (CHEBI:44715) is a octopamine (CHEBI:17134) (S)-octopamine (CHEBI:44808) is a octopamine (CHEBI:17134) octopaminium (CHEBI:58025) is conjugate acid of octopamine (CHEBI:17134)

IUPAC Name

4-(2-amino-1-hydroxyethyl)phenol

Synonyms	Sources
1-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)-2-aminoethanol	KEGG COMPOUND
1-(p-hydroxyphenyl)-2-aminoethanol	ChemIDplus
α-(aminomethyl)-4-hydroxybenzenemethanol	ChemIDplus
α-(aminomethyl)-p-hydroxybenzyl alcohol	ChemIDplus
β-hydroxytyramine	ChEBI
norsynephrine	ChemIDplus
Octopamin	ChEBI
Octopamine	KEGG COMPOUND
octopaminum	ChemIDplus
p-Hydroxyphenylethanolamine	KEGG COMPOUND

Last Modified

20 November 2020