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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: 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 22355
        role 22341
          chemical role 21588
            environmental contaminant 20172
              formaldehyde 3722
                carbonylidene group 0
                compound 48/80 15
                methanimine + 0
                oxomethyl 0
                phosgene 183
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      CHEBI ontology 22355
        subatomic particle 22350
          composite particle 22350
            hadron 22350
              baryon 22350
                nucleon 22350
                  atomic nucleus 22350
                    atom 22350
                      main group element atom 22239
                        p-block element atom 22239
                          carbon group element atom 22044
                            carbon atom 21985
                              organic molecular entity 21985
                                heteroorganic entity 21629
                                  organochalcogen compound 21132
                                    organooxygen compound 20969
                                      carbon oxoacid 19757
                                        carboxylic acid 19753
                                          carboacyl group 18313
                                            univalent carboacyl group 18313
                                              formyl group 9499
                                                aldehyde 9499
                                                  formaldehyde 3722
                                                    carbonylidene group 0
                                                    compound 48/80 15
                                                    methanimine + 0
                                                    oxomethyl 0
                                                    phosgene 183
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