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dehydroalanine
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Dehydroalanine is an organic compound with the formula . It does not exist in its free form, but it occurs naturally as a residue found in peptides of microbial origin. Unlike most amino acid residues, it has an unsaturated backbone.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C3H5NO2
- Molecular weight
- 87.08 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 2-aminoprop-2-enoic acid
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- Mass
- 87.032
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- chemical formula
- C₃H₅NO₂
- canonical SMILES
- C=C(C(=O)O)N
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- Dehydroalanine
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Dehydroalanine is an organic compound with the formula . It does not exist in its free form, but it occurs naturally as a residue found in peptides of microbial origin. Unlike most amino acid residues, it has an unsaturated backbone.
==Structure and reactivity== Like most primary enamines, dehydroalanine is unstable. It would hydrolyze to pyruvate:
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