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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:nitromethane
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Accession:CHEBI:77701 term browser browse the term
Definition:A primary nitroalkane that is methane in which one of the hydrogens is replace by a nitro group. A polar solvent (b.p. 101 degreeC), it is an important starting material in organic synthesis. It is also used as a fuel for rockets and radio-controlled models.
Synonyms:related_synonym: CH3NO2;   Formula=CH3NO2;   InChI=1S/CH3NO2/c1-2(3)4/h1H3;   InChIKey=LYGJENNIWJXYER-UHFFFAOYSA-N;   MeNO2;   SMILES=C[N+]([O-])=O
 xref: CAS:75-52-5;   KEGG:C19275;   MetaCyc:CPD-8133;   PMID:11100413;   PMID:21860501;   PMID:26735907;   PMID:26800205;   PMID:4207867;   PMID:999282;   Reaxys:1698205;   Wikipedia:Nitromethane



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    role 19790
      chemical role 19421
        explosive 4711
          nitromethane 0
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  CHEBI ontology 19818
    subatomic particle 19816
      composite particle 19816
        hadron 19816
          baryon 19816
            nucleon 19816
              atomic nucleus 19816
                atom 19816
                  main group element atom 19761
                    p-block element atom 19761
                      pnictogen 19000
                        nitrogen atom 18922
                          nitrogen molecular entity 18922
                            nitro compound 10907
                              C-nitro compound 10627
                                nitrohydrocarbon 1569
                                  nitroalkane 49
                                    primary nitroalkane 42
                                      nitromethane 0
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