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short-chain fatty acid

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An aliphatic monocarboxylic acid with a chain length of less than C6. If any non-hydrocarbon substituent is present, the compound is not normally regarded as a short-chain fatty acid.

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

3_STAR

charge

0

formula

CH2OR

has related synonym

SCFAs, short-chain fatty acids, SCFA

has obo namespace

chebi_ontology

id

CHEBI:26666

mass

45.017

monoisotopicmass

44.99765

smiles

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