vanillic acid

chemical compound
ChemicalSubstance type_of_chemical_entity Q419672
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vanillic acid

Summary

vanillic acid is a type of chemical entity[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of type_of_chemical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • vanillic acid's instance of is recorded as type of chemical entity[3].
  • vanillic acid's chemical structure is recorded as Vanillinsäure.svg[4].
  • vanillic acid's physically interacts with is recorded as taste receptor type 2[5].
  • vanillic acid's CAS Registry Number is recorded as 121-34-6[6].
  • vanillic acid's EC number is recorded as 204-466-8[7].
  • vanillic acid's canonical SMILES is recorded as COC1=C(C=CC(=C1)C(=O)O)O[8].
  • vanillic acid's InChI is recorded as InChI=1S/C8H8O4/c1-12-7-4-5(8(10)11)2-3-6(7)9/h2-4,9H,1H3,(H,10,11)[9].
  • vanillic acid's InChIKey is recorded as WKOLLVMJNQIZCI-UHFFFAOYSA-N[10].
  • vanillic acid's chemical formula is recorded as C₈H₈O₄[11].
  • vanillic acid's subclass of is recorded as organic anion[12].
  • vanillic acid's Commons category is recorded as Vanillic acid[13].
  • vanillic acid's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D014641[14].
  • vanillic acid's has part is recorded as oxygen[15].
  • vanillic acid's has part is recorded as carbon[16].
  • vanillic acid's ChEMBL ID is recorded as CHEMBL120568[17].
  • vanillic acid's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03cdjh6[18].
  • vanillic acid's UNII is recorded as GM8Q3JM2Y8[19].
  • vanillic acid's RTECS number is recorded as YW5300000[20].
  • vanillic acid's ChemSpider ID is recorded as 8155[21].
  • vanillic acid's PubChem CID is recorded as 8468[22].
  • vanillic acid's KEGG ID is recorded as C06672[23].
  • vanillic acid's MeSH tree code is recorded as D02.241.223.100.300.350.875[24].
  • vanillic acid's MeSH tree code is recorded as D02.241.511.390.350.875[25].
  • vanillic acid's MeSH tree code is recorded as D02.455.426.559.389.127.281.350.875[26].
  • vanillic acid's MeSH tree code is recorded as D02.455.426.559.389.657.654.638.875[27].

Why It Matters

vanillic acid ranks in the top 6% of type_of_chemical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Human Bitter Taste Receptors Are Activated by Different Classes of Polyphenols. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . ChEBI. Retrieved . commonchemistry.cas.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Global Substance Registration System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . ChEMBL. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Global Substance Registration System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Q2311683. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . 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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