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CHEBI:73641 -
rac
-methyl lactate
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ChEBI Name
rac
-methyl lactate
ChEBI ID
CHEBI:73641
ChEBI ASCII Name
rac-methyl lactate
Definition
A racemate comprising equimolar amounts of methyl (
R
)-lactate and methyl (
S
)-lactate.
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This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Submitter
Maria Jose
Formula
C4H8O3
Net Charge
0
Average Mass
104.10450
Monoisotopic Mass
104.04734
ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing
rac
-methyl lactate (
CHEBI:73641
)
has functional parent
rac
-lactic acid (
CHEBI:28358
)
rac
-methyl lactate (
CHEBI:73641
)
has part
methyl (
R
)-lactate (
CHEBI:74611
)
rac
-methyl lactate (
CHEBI:73641
)
has part
methyl (
S
)-lactate (
CHEBI:83222
)
rac
-methyl lactate (
CHEBI:73641
)
is a
racemate (
CHEBI:60911
)
IUPAC Name
rac
-methyl 2-hydroxypropanoate
Synonyms
Sources
(±)-methyl 2-hydroxypropanoate
ChemIDplus
(±)-methyl 2-hydroxypropionate
ChemIDplus
(±)-methyl lactate
ChemIDplus
2-hydroxypropanoic acid methyl ester
ChemIDplus
D
L
-methyl lactate
ChemIDplus
lactic acid, methyl ester
SUBMITTER
methyl 2-hydroxypropionate
SUBMITTER
methyl α-hydroxypropionate
ChemIDplus
methyl
D
L
-lactate
SUBMITTER
methyl
R
S
-lactate
ChEBI
R
S
-methyl lactate
ChEBI
Manual Xref
Database
US2013079547
Patent
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Registry Numbers
Types
Sources
1720586
Reaxys Registry Number
Reaxys
2155-30-8
CAS Registry Number
NIST Chemistry WebBook
547-64-8
CAS Registry Number
ChemIDplus
Citations
Types
Sources
20572727
PubMed citation
Europe PMC
22669348
PubMed citation
Europe PMC
23496094
PubMed citation
Europe PMC
23776010
PubMed citation
Europe PMC
Last Modified
02 October 2014
General Comment
2014-10-02
This is the entry for racemic material. There are separate entries for the individual enantiomers [methyl (
R
)-lactate; methyl (
S
)-lactate] and for material with unspecified stereochemistry (methyl 2-hydroxypropionate).