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Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is a freely available dictionary of molecular entities focused on ‘small’ chemical compounds.
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Is the label of CHEBI:31128 (4-hydroxyphenyl acetate) correct? #4357

Closed paola-scibite closed 1 year ago

paola-scibite commented 1 year ago

Hi, I'm comparing the apparent label duplication between

CHEBI:48999 - 4-hydroxyphenylacetate (4-hydroxyphenylacetate (CHEBI:48999) is conjugate base of 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid (CHEBI:18101))

and

CHEBI:31128 - 4-hydroxyphenyl acetate

Could you please confirm that both labels are correct? Thank you,

Paola

amalik01 commented 1 year ago

Hi Paola,

These ChEBI entries are correct and are not duplicated entries.

Although the names are similar, one of the names has a space in it whereas the other doesn't. 4-hydroxyphenylacetate is the deprotonated form of 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid whereas CHEBI:31128 has a space in the name and is referring to the acetate ester. All of the acetate esters have a space in the name.

E.g. Ethyl acetate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl_acetate) benzyl acetate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzyl_acetate)

paola-scibite commented 1 year ago

@amalik01 thanks for confirming!