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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:methyl formate
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Accession:CHEBI:77699 term browser browse the term
Definition:A formate ester resulting from the formal condensation of formic acid with methanol. A low-boiling (31.5 degreeC) colourless, flammable liquid, it has been used as a fumigant and larvicide for tobacco and food crops.
Synonyms:related_synonym: Formula=C2H4O2;   HCO2CH3;   HCOOCH3;   InChI=1S/C2H4O2/c1-4-2-3/h2H,1H3;   InChIKey=TZIHFWKZFHZASV-UHFFFAOYSA-N;   Methylformiat;   R-611;   SMILES=COC=O;   formiate de methyle;   formic acid methyl ester;   methanoic acid methyl ester;   methyl methanoate
 xref: CAS:107-31-3;   PMID:21969072;   PMID:23268565;   Reaxys:1734623



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    subatomic particle 19829
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        hadron 19829
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            nucleon 19829
              atomic nucleus 19829
                atom 19829
                  main group element atom 19779
                    p-block element atom 19779
                      carbon group element atom 19728
                        carbon atom 19724
                          organic molecular entity 19724
                            heteroorganic entity 19477
                              organochalcogen compound 19240
                                organooxygen compound 19155
                                  carbon oxoacid 18613
                                    carboxylic acid 18610
                                      monocarboxylic acid 17966
                                        formic acid 9042
                                          formate ester 0
                                            methyl formate 0
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