CHEBI:22221 - acyl group

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ChEBI Name acyl group
ChEBI ID CHEBI:22221
Definition An organic group formed by removing one or more hydroxy groups from an oxoacid that has the general structure RkE(=O)l(OH)m (l ≠ 0). Although the term is almost always applied to organic compounds, with carboxylic acid as the oxoacid, acyl groups can in principle be derived from other types of acids such as sulfonic acids or phosphonic acids.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing acyl group (CHEBI:22221) is a organic group (CHEBI:33247)
Incoming carboacyl group (CHEBI:37838) is a acyl group (CHEBI:22221)
IUPAC Name
alkanoyl
Synonyms Sources
acyl group IUPAC
acyl groups ChEBI
alkanoyl group ChEBI
groupe acyle IUPAC
Last Modified
18 July 2011
General Comment
2007-03-17 In organic chemistry an unspecified acyl group is commonly a carboxylic acyl group.