CHEBI:132232 - ethylenediaminetriacetic acid

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ChEBI Name ethylenediaminetriacetic acid
ChEBI ID CHEBI:132232
Definition An ethylenediamine derivative in which three of the four amine protons of ethylenediamine are replaced by carboxymethyl groups.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
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Formula C8H14N2O6
Net Charge 0
Average Mass 234.207
Monoisotopic Mass 234.08519
InChI InChI=1S/C8H14N2O6/c11-6(12)3-9-1-2-10(4-7(13)14)5-8(15)16/h9H,1-5H2,(H,11,12)(H,13,14)(H,15,16)
InChIKey OUDSFQBUEBFSPS-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES O=C(O)CN(CC(=O)O)CCNCC(=O)O
Metabolite of Species Details
Agrobacterium sp. (NCBI:txid361) of strain ATCC 55002 See: PubMed
Roles Classification
Chemical Role(s): chelator
A ligand with two or more separate binding sites that can bind to a single metallic central atom, forming a chelate.
Bronsted base
A molecular entity capable of accepting a hydron from a donor (Bronsted acid).
(via organic amino compound )
Bronsted acid
A molecular entity capable of donating a hydron to an acceptor (Bronsted base).
(via oxoacid )
Biological Role(s): bacterial xenobiotic metabolite
Any bacterial metabolite produced by metabolism of a xenobiotic compound in bacteria.
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ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (CHEBI:132232) has role bacterial xenobiotic metabolite (CHEBI:76976)
ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (CHEBI:132232) has role chelator (CHEBI:38161)
ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (CHEBI:132232) is a ethylenediamine derivative (CHEBI:31577)
ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (CHEBI:132232) is a glycine derivative (CHEBI:24373)
ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (CHEBI:132232) is a polyamino carboxylic acid (CHEBI:60892)
ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (CHEBI:132232) is a tricarboxylic acid (CHEBI:27093)
ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (CHEBI:132232) is conjugate acid of ethylenediaminetriacetate(2−) (CHEBI:131921)
Incoming ethylenediaminetriacetate(2−) (CHEBI:131921) is conjugate base of ethylenediaminetriacetic acid (CHEBI:132232)
IUPAC Name
N-{2-[bis(carboxymethyl)amino]ethyl}glycine
Synonyms Sources
ethylenediamine-N,N,N'-triacetic acid ChEBI
N-(Carboxymethyl)-N-(2-((carboxymethyl)amino)ethyl)glycine ChemIDplus
Manual Xref Database
CPD-18914 MetaCyc
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Registry Numbers Types Sources
2378200 Reaxys Registry Number Reaxys
688-57-3 CAS Registry Number ChemIDplus
Citations Waiting for Citations Types Sources
11157232 PubMed citation Europe PMC
23746405 PubMed citation Europe PMC
Last Modified
20 June 2016