methyl farnesoate (CHEBI:80535)

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ChEBI Name	methyl farnesoate

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:80535

Definition	A member of the juvenile hormone family of compounds that is the methyl ester of farnesoic acid. Found in several species of crustaceans.

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Formula

C16H26O2

Net Charge

Average Mass

250.37640

Monoisotopic Mass

250.19328

InChI

InChI=1S/C16H26O2/c1-13(2)8-6-9-14(3)10-7-11-15(4)12-16(17)18-5/h8,10,12H,6-7,9,11H2,1-5H3/b14-10+,15-12+

InChIKey

NWKXNIPBVLQYAB-VDQVFBMKSA-N

SMILES

COC(=O)\C=C(/C)CC\C=C(/C)CCC=C(C)C

Roles Classification
Biological Role(s):	crustacean metabolite An animal metabolite produced by arthropods such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimps and krill. animal metabolite Any eukaryotic metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in animals that include diverse creatures from sponges, insects to mammals. (via juvenile hormone ) hormone Originally referring to an endogenous compound that is formed in specialized organ or group of cells and carried to another organ or group of cells, in the same organism, upon which it has a specific regulatory function, the term is now commonly used to include non-endogenous, semi-synthetic and fully synthetic analogues of such compounds. (via juvenile hormone )

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	methyl farnesoate (CHEBI:80535) has functional parent farnesoic acid (CHEBI:36969) methyl farnesoate (CHEBI:80535) has role crustacean metabolite (CHEBI:83039) methyl farnesoate (CHEBI:80535) is a enoate ester (CHEBI:51702) methyl farnesoate (CHEBI:80535) is a fatty acid methyl ester (CHEBI:4986) methyl farnesoate (CHEBI:80535) is a juvenile hormone (CHEBI:24943)

Incoming	juvenile hormone III bisepoxide (CHEBI:83642) has functional parent methyl farnesoate (CHEBI:80535) juvenile hormone III skipped bisepoxide (CHEBI:83643) has functional parent methyl farnesoate (CHEBI:80535)

IUPAC Name

methyl (2E,6E)-3,7,11-trimethyldodeca-2,6,10-trienoate

Synonyms	Sources
(2E,6E)-farnesyl methyl ester	MetaCyc
methyl (2-trans,6-trans)-farnesoate	MetaCyc
methyl (2E,6E)-farnesoate	MetaCyc
methyl (2E,6E)-farnesoate	UniProt
methyl (E,E)-farnesate	NIST Chemistry WebBook
Methyl 3,7,11-trimethyl-2,6,10-dodecatrienoate	NIST Chemistry WebBook
Methyl farnesate	NIST Chemistry WebBook

Last Modified

13 April 2015