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L aspartic acid
- CAS number
- 56-84-8
- Molecular formula
- C4H7NO4
- Molecular weight
- 133.1 g/mol

About this molecule
Aspartic Acid is a non-essential amino acid in humans, Aspartic Acid has an overall negative charge and plays an important role in the synthesis of other amino acids and in the citric acid and urea cycles. Asparagine, arginine, lysine, methionine, isoleucine, and some nucleotides are synthesized from aspartic acid. Aspartic acid also serves as a neurotransmitter. (NCI04)
Source: NCI Thesaurus (NCIt), via PubChem.
Identifiers
- IUPAC name
- (2S)-2-aminobutanedioic acid
- InChIKey
- CKLJMWTZIZZHCS-REOHCLBHSA-N
- SMILES
- C([C@@H](C(=O)O)N)C(=O)O
- Other CAS numbers recorded
- 6899-03-2
- PubChem CID
- 5960
Also known as
L-aspartic acid · aspartic acid · (2S)-2-aminobutanedioic acid · Asparagic acid · L-Aminosuccinic acid · (S)-2-Aminosuccinic acid · Asparaginic acid · L-Asparaginic acid
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