Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH3CH2OH. It is an alcohol, with its formula also written as C2H5OH, C2H6O or EtOH, where Et stands for ethyl. Ethanol is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid with a characteristic wine-like odor and pungent taste.
As a psychoactive depressant, it is the active ingredient in alcoholic beverages, and the second most consumed drug globally behind caffeine.
Ethanol is naturally produced by the fermentation process of sugars by yeasts or via petrochemical processes such as ethylene hydration. Historically it was used as a general anesthetic, and has modern medical applications as an antiseptic, disinfectant, solvent for some medications, and antidote for methanol poisoning and ethylene glycol poisoning. It is used as a chemical solvent and in the synthesis of organic compounds, and as a fuel source for lamps, stoves, and internal combustion engines. Ethanol also can be dehydrated to make ethylene, an important chemical feedstock. As of 2023, world production of ethanol fuel was 29,590,000,000 US gallons (112.0 gigalitres), coming mostly from the U.S. (51%) and Brazil (26%). |
Read full article at Wikipedia
|
InChI=1S/C7H8O5/c8-4-1-3(7(11)12)2-5(9)6(4)10/h1,5-6,9-10H,2H2,(H,11,12)/t5-,6-/m1/s1 |
SLWWJZMPHJJOPH-PHDIDXHHSA-N |
O[C@@H]1CC(=CC(=O)[C@H]1O)C(O)=O |
|
Bronsted acid
A molecular entity capable of donating a hydron to an acceptor (Bronsted base).
(via oxoacid )
|
|
plant metabolite
Any eukaryotic metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in plants, the kingdom that include flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms.
|
|
View more via ChEBI Ontology
(4S,5R)-4,5-dihydroxy-3-oxocyclohex-1-ene-1-carboxylic acid
|
(−)-3-dehydroshikimic acid
|
ChEBI
|
3-Dehydroshikimate
|
KEGG COMPOUND
|
3-dehydroshikimic acid
|
ChEBI
|
5-Dehydroshikimate
|
KEGG COMPOUND
|
5-dehydroshikimic acid
|
ChEBI
|
2938338
|
Reaxys Registry Number
|
Reaxys
|
10514257
|
PubMed citation
|
Europe PMC
|
|
2005-03-22
|
The numbering system used for the 3-dehydroshikimic acid is that of the IUPAC/CBN recommendations on cyclitols, sections I-8 and I-9. The use of the term '5-dehydroshikimic acid' for this compound is based on an earlier, now obsolete, system of numbering (for example of use, see S. Mitsuhashi and B. D. Davis, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1954, 15, 268-280).
|
|