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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

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:formaldehyde
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Accession:CHEBI:16842 term browser browse the term
Definition:An aldehyde resulting from the formal oxidation of methanol.
Synonyms:related_synonym: Formaldehyd;   Formalin;   Formula=CH2O;   InChI=1S/CH2O/c1-2/h1H2;   InChIKey=WSFSSNUMVMOOMR-UHFFFAOYSA-N;   Methanal;   Methylene oxide;   Oxomethane;   Oxomethylene;   SMILES=[H]C([H])=O
 alt_id: CHEBI:14274;   CHEBI:24077;   CHEBI:337763;   CHEBI:5142
 xref: Beilstein:1209228;   CAS:50-00-0;   DrugBank:DB03843;   Drug_Central:3244;   Gmelin:445;   HMDB:HMDB0001426;   KEGG:C00067;   KEGG:D00017
 xref_mesh: MESH:D005557
 xref: MetaCyc:FORMALDEHYDE;   PDBeChem:FOR;   PMID:110589;   PMID:12686735;   PMID:15091529;   PMID:16423181;   PMID:17618393;   PMID:18837732;   PMID:25042713;   PMID:7381846;   PMID:7548723;   PMID:7689168;   PMID:7896413;   PMID:9686972;   PPDB:359;   Reaxys:1209228;   UM-BBD_compID:c0122;   Wikipedia:Formaldehyde



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      CHEBI ontology 19918
        role 19894
          chemical role 19512
            environmental contaminant 18907
              formaldehyde 3673
                carbonylidene group 0
                compound 48/80 14
                methanimine + 0
                oxomethyl 0
                phosgene 180
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      CHEBI ontology 19918
        subatomic particle 19916
          composite particle 19916
            hadron 19916
              baryon 19916
                nucleon 19916
                  atomic nucleus 19916
                    atom 19916
                      main group element atom 19866
                        p-block element atom 19866
                          carbon group element atom 19811
                            carbon atom 19806
                              organic molecular entity 19806
                                organic group 18995
                                  organic divalent group 18969
                                    organodiyl group 18969
                                      carbonyl group 18922
                                        carbonyl compound 18922
                                          carboxylic acid 18646
                                            carboacyl group 17727
                                              univalent carboacyl group 17727
                                                formyl group 9012
                                                  aldehyde 9012
                                                    formaldehyde 3673
                                                      carbonylidene group 0
                                                      compound 48/80 14
                                                      methanimine + 0
                                                      oxomethyl 0
                                                      phosgene 180
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