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The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:2,3-dihydroxy-3-methylbutanoic acid
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Accession:CHEBI:15689 term browser browse the term
Definition:A dihydroxy monocarboxylic acid that is isovaleric acid which is substituted by hydroxy groups at positions 2 and 3.
Synonyms:related_synonym: 2,3-Dihydroxy-isovaleric acid;   2,3-dihydroxy-3-methylbutyric acid;   Formula=C5H10O4;   InChI=1S/C5H10O4/c1-5(2,9)3(6)4(7)8/h3,6,9H,1-2H3,(H,7,8);   InChIKey=JTEYKUFKXGDTEU-UHFFFAOYSA-N;   SMILES=CC(C)(O)C(O)C(O)=O;   alpha,beta-Dihydroxyisovaleric acid
 alt_id: CHEBI:881
 xref: Beilstein:1756569;   CAS:1756-18-9;   KEGG:C04039;   KNApSAcK:C00019678
 cyclic_relationship: is_conjugate_acid_of CHEBI:11424



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            eukaryotic metabolite 19319
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                isovaleric acid 1720
                  2,3-dihydroxy-3-methylbutanoic acid 0
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    subatomic particle 19829
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                      carbon group element atom 19728
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                          organic molecular entity 19724
                            heteroorganic entity 19477
                              organochalcogen compound 19240
                                organooxygen compound 19155
                                  carbon oxoacid 18613
                                    carboxylic acid 18610
                                      monocarboxylic acid 17966
                                        fatty acid 16685
                                          short-chain fatty acid 15921
                                            fatty acid 4:0 8228
                                              butyric acid 6723
                                                methylbutyric acid 2482
                                                  isovaleric acid 1720
                                                    2,3-dihydroxy-3-methylbutanoic acid 0
                                                      (R)-2,3-dihydroxy-3-methylbutanoic acid 0
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