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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:3-hydroxymethyl-4-methyl-furan-2(5H)-one
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Accession:CHEBI:66047 term browser browse the term
Definition:A butenolide that is furan-2(5H)-one substituted by a hydroxymethyl group at position 3 and a methyl group at position 4. Isolated from an edible mushroom Mycoleptodonoides aitchisonii, it exhibits protective activity against endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress dependent cell death.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: 3-(hydroxymethyl)-4-methylfuran-2(5H)-one
 related_synonym: Formula=C6H8O3;   InChI=1S/C6H8O3/c1-4-3-9-6(8)5(4)2-7/h7H,2-3H2,1H3;   InChIKey=HVNDECDCMWQSGR-UHFFFAOYSA-N;   SMILES=CC1=C(CO)C(=O)OC1
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                          organic molecular entity 19705
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                              organochalcogen compound 19222
                                organooxygen compound 19137
                                  ester 17247
                                    carboxylic ester 16563
                                      lactone 12512
                                        gamma-lactone 6859
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                                            3-hydroxymethyl-4-methyl-furan-2(5H)-one 0
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