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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:L-ascorbate
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Definition:The L-enantiomer of ascorbate and conjugate base of L-ascorbic acid, arising from selective deprotonation of the 3-hydroxy group. Required for a range of essential metabolic reactions in all animals and plants.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: (2R)-2-[(1S)-1,2-dihydroxyethyl]-4-hydroxy-5-oxo-2,5-dihydrofuran-3-olate
 related_synonym: Ascorbate;   Formula=C6H7O6;   InChI=1S/C6H8O6/c7-1-2(8)5-3(9)4(10)6(11)12-5/h2,5,7-10H,1H2/p-1/t2-,5+/m0/s1;   InChIKey=CIWBSHSKHKDKBQ-JLAZNSOCSA-M;   L-ascorbate(1-);   L-ascorbic acid, ion(1-);   SMILES=[H][C@@]1(OC(=O)C(O)=C1[O-])[C@@H](O)CO;   Vitamin C
 alt_id: CHEBI:13082;   CHEBI:13861
 xref: Beilstein:3549814;   CAS:299-36-5;   Chemspider:10239162;   Gmelin:506552;   KEGG:C00072;   MetaCyc:ASCORBATE;   PMID:18450228;   PMID:18678913;   PMID:19162177;   PMID:9506998
 cyclic_relationship: is_conjugate_base_of CHEBI:29073


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