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muscazone
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Muscazone is a toxic chemical compound. It is an amino acid found in European fly agaric mushrooms.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C5H6N2O4
- Molecular weight
- 158.11 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 2-amino-2-(2-oxo-3H-1,3-oxazol-5-yl)acetic acid
- SMILES
- C1=C(OC(=O)N1)C(C(=O)O)N
- InChIKey
- ASBGWPLVVIASBE-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- -3.9
- Polar surface area
- 102 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 3
- H-bond acceptors
- 5
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 158.032756672
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- chemical formula
- C₅H₆O₄N₂
- canonical SMILES
- C1=C(OC(=O)N1)C(C(=O)O)N
- melting point
- 190
- found in taxon
- Amanita muscaria
- Commons category
- Muscazone
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Encyclopedic overview
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Muscazone is a toxic chemical compound. It is an amino acid found in European fly agaric mushrooms.
Consumption causes visual damage, mental confusion, and memory loss.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “muscazone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.