CHEBI:15688 - acetoin

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ChEBI Name acetoin
ChEBI ID CHEBI:15688
Definition A methyl ketone that is butan-2-one substituted by a hydroxy group at position 3.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:22181, CHEBI:13707, CHEBI:11831, CHEBI:2397
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Formula C4H8O2
Net Charge 0
Average Mass 88.10512
Monoisotopic Mass 88.05243
InChI InChI=1S/C4H8O2/c1-3(5)4(2)6/h3,5H,1-2H3
InChIKey ROWKJAVDOGWPAT-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES CC(O)C(C)=O
Roles Classification
Biological Role(s): metabolite
Any intermediate or product resulting from metabolism. The term 'metabolite' subsumes the classes commonly known as primary and secondary metabolites.
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ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing acetoin (CHEBI:15688) has role metabolite (CHEBI:25212)
acetoin (CHEBI:15688) is a methyl ketone (CHEBI:51867)
acetoin (CHEBI:15688) is a secondary α-hydroxy ketone (CHEBI:2468)
Incoming (R)-acetoin (CHEBI:15686) is a acetoin (CHEBI:15688)
(S)-acetoin (CHEBI:15687) is a acetoin (CHEBI:15688)
IUPAC Name
3-hydroxybutan-2-one
Synonyms Sources
(S)-2-Acetoin KEGG COMPOUND
1-Hydroxyethyl methyl ketone ChemIDplus
2,3-Butanolone ChemIDplus
2-Acetoin KEGG COMPOUND
2-Hydroxy-3-butanone ChemIDplus
3-Hydroxy-2-butanone KEGG COMPOUND
3-Hydroxybutan-2-one KEGG COMPOUND
Acetoin KEGG COMPOUND
acetoin UniProt
Acetyl methyl carbinol ChemIDplus
Dimethylketol KEGG COMPOUND
gamma-Hydroxy-beta-oxobutane ChemIDplus
Manual Xrefs Databases
C00466 KEGG COMPOUND
C01769 KEGG COMPOUND
DB02788 DrugBank
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Registry Numbers Types Sources
513-86-0 CAS Registry Number KEGG COMPOUND
513-86-0 CAS Registry Number ChemIDplus
Last Modified
05 February 2018