glycolaldehyde (CHEBI:17071)

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ChEBI Name	glycolaldehyde

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:17071

Definition	The glycolaldehyde derived from ethylene glycol. The parent of the class of glycolaldehydes.

Stars	This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.

Secondary ChEBI IDs	CHEBI:5474, CHEBI:14347, CHEBI:24386

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Formula

C2H4O2

Net Charge

Average Mass

60.052

Monoisotopic Mass

60.02113

InChI

InChI=1S/C2H4O2/c3-1-2-4/h1,4H,2H2

InChIKey

WGCNASOHLSPBMP-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

[H]C(=O)CO

Metabolite of Species	Details
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (NCBI:txid4932)	Source: yeast.sf.net See: PubMed
Escherichia coli (NCBI:txid562)	See: PubMed
Homo sapiens (NCBI:txid9606)	See: DOI

Roles Classification
Biological Role(s):	fundamental metabolite Any metabolite produced by all living cells. human metabolite Any mammalian metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in humans (Homo sapiens).

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	glycolaldehyde (CHEBI:17071) has role fundamental metabolite (CHEBI:78675) glycolaldehyde (CHEBI:17071) has role human metabolite (CHEBI:77746) glycolaldehyde (CHEBI:17071) is a glycolaldehydes (CHEBI:24387) glycolaldehyde (CHEBI:17071) is tautomer of (Z)-1,2-ethenediol (CHEBI:131198)

Incoming	glycolaldehyde phosphate (CHEBI:136456) has functional parent glycolaldehyde (CHEBI:17071) glycolaldehyde triphosphate (CHEBI:137677) has functional parent glycolaldehyde (CHEBI:17071) (Z)-1,2-ethenediol (CHEBI:131198) is tautomer of glycolaldehyde (CHEBI:17071)

IUPAC Name

hydroxyacetaldehyde

Last Modified

06 June 2022