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folic acid (CHEBI:27470)

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ChEBI Name folic acid
ChEBI ID CHEBI:27470
Definition Folic acid is a form of the water-soluble vitamine B9. Its biologically active forms (tetrahydrofolate and others) are essential for nucleotide biosynthesis and homocysteine remethylation.
Last Modified 08 December 2009
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:5140, CHEBI:24075, CHEBI:569217, CHEBI:42610

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InChI
InChI=1/C19H19N7O6/c20-19-25-15-14(17(30)26-19)23-11(8-22-15)7-21-10-3-1-9(2-4-10)16(29)24-12(18(31)32)5-6-13(27)28/h1-4,8,12,21H,5-7H2,(H,24,29)(H,27,28)(H,31,32)(H3,20,22,25,26,30)/t12-/m0/s1/f/h24,26-27,31H,20H2
InChIKey
InChIKey=OVBPIULPVIDEAO-SDUCKQNDDW
SMILES
Nc1nc2ncc(CNc3ccc(cc3)C(=O)N[C@@H](CCC(O)=O)C(O)=O)nc2c(=O)[nH]1
Formula Source
C19H19N7O6 KEGG COMPOUND
Charge 0
Mass 441.39774
ChEBI Ontology
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Outgoing folic acid (CHEBI:27470) is a folate (CHEBI:37445)
folic acid (CHEBI:27470) has functional parent pteroic acid (CHEBI:38794)
folic acid (CHEBI:27470) is a N-acylamino acid (CHEBI:51569)
folic acid (CHEBI:27470) has role vitamin (CHEBI:33229)
Incoming 4-aminofolic acid (CHEBI:22526) has functional parent folic acid (CHEBI:27470)
IUPAC Name
N-(4-{[(2-amino-4-oxo-3,4-dihydropteridin-6-yl)methyl]amino}benzoyl)-L-glutamic acid
Synonyms Sources
Folate KEGG COMPOUND
FOLIC ACID MSDchem
Folic acid KEGG COMPOUND
Folsäure ChEBI
N-[(4-{[(2-amino-4-oxo-1,4-dihydropteridin-6-yl)methyl]amino}phenyl)carbonyl]-L-glutamic acid MSDchem
N-pteroyl-L-glutamic acid ChEBI
PGA NIST Chemistry WebBook
PteGlu NIST Chemistry WebBook
pteroyl-L-glutamic acid ChemIDplus
pteroyl-L-monoglutamic acid ChemIDplus
Pteroylglutamic acid KEGG COMPOUND
vitamin Bc ChemIDplus
vitamin M ChemIDplus
Database Links Databases
C00504 KEGG COMPOUND
FOL MSDchem
569217 ChEMBL
Registry Numbers Types Sources
100781 Beilstein Registry Number Beilstein
59-30-3 CAS Registry Number NIST Chemistry WebBook
59-30-3 CAS Registry Number ChemIDplus
Citation Waiting for Citations Type Source
18788725 PubMed citation ChEMBL

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