alpha-tocopherol

pharmaceutical drug
ChemicalSubstance type_of_chemical_entity Q158348
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alpha-tocopherol

Summary

alpha-tocopherol is a type of chemical entity[1]. alpha-tocopherol ranks in the top 6% of type_of_chemical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (77 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • alpha-tocopherol's image is recorded as Sample of alpha-tocopherol.jpg[3].
  • alpha-tocopherol's instance of is recorded as type of chemical entity[4].
  • alpha-tocopherol's chemical structure is recorded as Tocopherol, alpha-.svg[5].
  • alpha-tocopherol's CAS Registry Number is recorded as 59-02-9[6].
  • alpha-tocopherol's EC number is recorded as 200-412-2[7].
  • alpha-tocopherol's canonical SMILES is recorded as OC=1C(=C(C=2OC(C)(CCC2C1C)CCCC(C)CCCC(C)CCCC(C)C)C)C[8].
  • alpha-tocopherol's InChI is recorded as InChI=1S/C29H50O2/c1-20(2)12-9-13-21(3)14-10-15-22(4)16-11-18-29(8)19-17-26-25(7)27(30)23(5)24(6)28(26)31-29/h20-22,30H,9-19H2,1-8H3/t21-,22-,29-/m1/s1[9].
  • alpha-tocopherol's InChIKey is recorded as GVJHHUAWPYXKBD-IEOSBIPESA-N[10].
  • alpha-tocopherol's chemical formula is recorded as C₂₉H₅₀O₂[11].
  • alpha-tocopherol's subclass of is recorded as tocopherol[12].
  • alpha-tocopherol's subclass of is recorded as rel-alpha-Vitamin E[13].
  • alpha-tocopherol's part of is recorded as tocopherol O-methyltransferase activity[14].
  • alpha-tocopherol's has use is recorded as medication[15].
  • alpha-tocopherol's Commons category is recorded as Alpha-tocopherol[16].
  • alpha-tocopherol's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D024502[17].
  • alpha-tocopherol's ChEMBL ID is recorded as CHEMBL47[18].
  • alpha-tocopherol's E number is recorded as E307a[19].
  • alpha-tocopherol's E number is recorded as E307[20].
  • alpha-tocopherol's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04kl74p[21].
  • alpha-tocopherol's UNII is recorded as N9PR3490H9[22].
  • alpha-tocopherol's ChemSpider ID is recorded as 14265[23].
  • alpha-tocopherol's PubChem CID is recorded as 14985[24].
  • alpha-tocopherol's KEGG ID is recorded as C02477[25].
  • alpha-tocopherol's MeSH tree code is recorded as D03.383.663.283.909.750.249[26].
  • alpha-tocopherol's MeSH tree code is recorded as D03.633.100.150.909.750.249[27].

Why It Matters

alpha-tocopherol ranks in the top 6% of type_of_chemical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (77 views/month).[2] alpha-tocopherol has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] alpha-tocopherol is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . ChemIDplus. Retrieved . chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . ECHA Substance Infocard database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . DrugBank. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . DrugBank. Retrieved . chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . DrugBank. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . DrugBank. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . ChemIDplus. Retrieved . chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . ChEMBL. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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