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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:formic acid
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Accession:CHEBI:30751 term browser browse the term
Definition:The simplest carboxylic acid, containing a single carbon. Occurs naturally in various sources including the venom of bee and ant stings, and is a useful organic synthetic reagent. Principally used as a preservative and antibacterial agent in livestock feed. Induces severe metabolic acidosis and ocular injury in human subjects.
Synonyms:related_synonym: Acide formique;   Ameisensaeure;   Formula=CH2O2;   H-COOH;   HCO2H;   HCOOH;   InChI=1S/CH2O2/c2-1-3/h1H,(H,2,3);   InChIKey=BDAGIHXWWSANSR-UHFFFAOYSA-N;   Methanoic acid;   SMILES=[H]C(O)=O;   aminic acid;   bilorin;   formylic acid;   hydrogen carboxylic acid;   methoic acid
 alt_id: CHEBI:24082;   CHEBI:42460;   CHEBI:5145
 xref: BPDB:1749;   Beilstein:1209246;   CAS:64-18-6;   DrugBank:DB01942;   Gmelin:1008;   HMDB:HMDB0000142;   KEGG:C00058;   KNApSAcK:C00001182;   LIPID_MAPS_instance:LMFA01010040
 xref_mesh: MESH:C030544
 xref: MetaCyc:FORMATE;   PDBeChem:FMT;   PMID:12591956;   PMID:14637377;   PMID:15811469;   PMID:16120414;   PMID:16185830;   PMID:16222862;   PMID:16230297;   PMID:16445901;   PMID:16465784;   PMID:18034701;   PMID:18397576;   PMID:22080171;   PMID:22280475;   PMID:22304812;   PMID:22385261;   PMID:22447125;   PMID:22483350;   PMID:22499553;   PMID:22540994;   PMID:22606986;   PMID:22622393;   PMID:3946945;   PMID:7361809;   Patent:CN101481304;   Reaxys:1209246;   Wikipedia:Formic_acid
 cyclic_relationship: is_conjugate_acid_of CHEBI:15740



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      CHEBI ontology 19876
        role 19851
          application 19687
            solvent 16891
              formic acid 8990
                N-formyl amino acid + 52
                ammonium formate 0
                formamide + 134
                formamidine + 7
                formate ester + 0
                formimidic acid + 0
                formyl group + 8950
                formyl-CoA 0
                magnesium formate dihydrate 0
                phosphonoformic acid + 9
                potassium formate 0
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      CHEBI ontology 19876
        subatomic particle 19874
          composite particle 19874
            hadron 19874
              baryon 19874
                nucleon 19874
                  atomic nucleus 19905
                    atom 19905
                      main group element atom 19821
                        p-block element atom 19821
                          carbon group element atom 19768
                            carbon atom 19764
                              organic molecular entity 19764
                                organic group 18962
                                  organic divalent group 18943
                                    organodiyl group 18915
                                      carbonyl group 18869
                                        carbonyl compound 18869
                                          carboxylic acid 18618
                                            monocarboxylic acid 17917
                                              formic acid 8990
                                                N-formyl amino acid + 52
                                                ammonium formate 0
                                                formamide + 134
                                                formamidine + 7
                                                formate ester + 0
                                                formimidic acid + 0
                                                formyl group + 8950
                                                formyl-CoA 0
                                                magnesium formate dihydrate 0
                                                phosphonoformic acid + 9
                                                potassium formate 0
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