CHEBI:41131 - crotonic acid

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ChEBI Name crotonic acid
ChEBI ID CHEBI:41131
Definition A but-2-enoic acid with a trans- double bond at C-2. It has been isolated from Daucus carota.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:36250, CHEBI:41125
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Formula C4H6O2
Net Charge 0
Average Mass 86.08924
Monoisotopic Mass 86.03678
InChI InChI=1S/C4H6O2/c1-2-3-4(5)6/h2-3H,1H3,(H,5,6)/b3-2+
InChIKey LDHQCZJRKDOVOX-NSCUHMNNSA-N
SMILES [H]\C(C)=C/C(O)=O
Roles Classification
Chemical Role(s): Bronsted acid
A molecular entity capable of donating a hydron to an acceptor (Bronsted base).
(via oxoacid )
Biological Role(s): plant metabolite
Any eukaryotic metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in plants, the kingdom that include flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms.
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Outgoing crotonic acid (CHEBI:41131) has role plant metabolite (CHEBI:76924)
crotonic acid (CHEBI:41131) is a 2-butenoic acid (CHEBI:17217)
crotonic acid (CHEBI:41131) is conjugate acid of crotonate (CHEBI:35899)
Incoming (R)-crotonylcarnitine (CHEBI:84898) has functional parent crotonic acid (CHEBI:41131)
crotonoyl-CoA (CHEBI:15473) has functional parent crotonic acid (CHEBI:41131)
tiglic acid (CHEBI:9592) has functional parent crotonic acid (CHEBI:41131)
crotonate (CHEBI:35899) is conjugate base of crotonic acid (CHEBI:41131)
IUPAC Name
(2E)-but-2-enoic acid
Synonyms Sources
(2E)-2-butenoic acid ChEBI
(E)-2-Butenoic acid NIST Chemistry WebBook
(E)-but-2-enoic acid ChEBI
(E)-Crotonic acid NIST Chemistry WebBook
2-Butenoic acid KEGG COMPOUND
2-butenoic acid ChEBI
3-methylacrylic acid ChEBI
α-butenoic acid ChEBI
α-crotonic acid ChEBI
BEO ChEBI
β-methacrylic acid ChEBI
β-methylacrylic acid ChEBI
Crotonic acid KEGG COMPOUND
trans-2-Butenoic acid ChemIDplus
trans-Crotonic Acid NIST Chemistry WebBook
Manual Xrefs Databases
BEO PDBeChem
C01771 KEGG COMPOUND
CROTONATE MetaCyc
Crotonic_acid Wikipedia
HMDB0010720 HMDB
LMFA01030195 LIPID MAPS
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Registry Numbers Types Sources
107-93-7 CAS Registry Number ChemIDplus
107-93-7 CAS Registry Number NIST Chemistry WebBook
1719943 Beilstein Registry Number Beilstein
1719943 Reaxys Registry Number Reaxys
3724-65-0 CAS Registry Number KEGG COMPOUND
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Last Modified
28 July 2014
General Comment
2011-03-29 Used in organic synthesis, and shown to have strong herbicidal properties.