beta-carotene
A cyclic carotene obtained by dimerisation of all-trans-retinol. A strongly-coloured red-orange pigment abundant in plants and fruit and the most active and important provitamin A carotenoid.
Exact Synonyms
beta,beta-carotene
beta-Carotene
BETA-CAROTENE
Related Synonyms
1,1'-[(1E,3E,5E,7E,9E,11E,13E,15E,17E)-3,7,12,16-tetramethyloctadeca-1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17-nonaene-1,18-diyl]bis(2,6,6-trimethylcyclohexene)
all-trans-beta-carotene
beta-Karotin
class Information
charge
0
formula
C40H56
has_alternative_id
has_dbxref
- CAS:7235-40-7
- COMe:MOL000093
- Drug_Central:345
- HMDB:HMDB0000561
- KEGG:C02094
- KEGG:D03101
- KNApSAcK:C00000919
- LIPID_MAPS_instance:LMPR01070000
- LIPID_MAPS_instance:LMPR01070001
- MetaCyc:CPD1F-129
- PDBeChem:BCR
- PMID:11171227
- PMID:11182771
- PMID:11332447
- PMID:11359610
- PMID:11382814
- PMID:11567548
- PMID:11677037
- PMID:11714348
- PMID:11962062
- PMID:12081834
- PMID:12891827
- PMID:14658721
- PMID:14764912
- PMID:14976384
- PMID:14997360
- PMID:15113067
- PMID:15333155
- PMID:15695449
- PMID:15789045
- PMID:15909543
- PMID:15949680
- PMID:15949683
- PMID:16036331
- PMID:16087476
- PMID:16338959
- PMID:16563447
- PMID:17004738
- PMID:17625873
- PMID:17708644
- PMID:17851775
- PMID:18429004
- PMID:18766464
- PMID:18767554
- PMID:18794175
- PMID:19480350
- PMID:19574250
- PMID:19669835
- PMID:19703237
- PMID:19852884
- PMID:19888275
- PMID:19896667
- PMID:19937581
- PMID:20074992
- PMID:20515074
- PMID:22079732
- PMID:22309480
- PMID:22428124
- PMID:22489215
- PMID:22534340
- PMID:22575730
- Reaxys:1917416
- Wikipedia:Beta_Carotene
has_obo_namespace
chebi_ontology
inchi
InChI=1S/C40H56/c1-31(19-13-21-33(3)25-27-37-35(5)23-15-29-39(37,7)8)17-11-12-18-32(2)20-14-22-34(4)26-28-38-36(6)24-16-30-40(38,9)10/h11-14,17-22,25-28H,15-16,23-24,29-30H2,1-10H3/b12-11+,19-13+,20-14+,27-25+,28-26+,31-17+,32-18+,33-21+,34-22+
inchikey
OENHQHLEOONYIE-JLTXGRSLSA-N
in_subset
mass
536.87264
monoisotopicmass
536.43820
smiles
CC(\C=C\C=C(C)\C=C\C1=C(C)CCCC1(C)C)=C/C=C/C=C(C)/C=C/C=C(C)/C=C/C1=C(C)CCCC1(C)C
class Relations
Subclass of