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OverviewAI-generated
Sodium benzoate is a chemical compound with the formula C₇H₅NaO₂. Its molecular weight is 144.10, and it has a mass of 144.018724. The substance exhibits a density of 1.50 and a melting point of 436. It is soluble at a level of 714 and has a lower flammable limit of 30.
In terms of molecular structure, sodium benzoate has a topological polar surface area of 40.1. It contains no hydrogen bond donors and two hydrogen bond acceptors, with a net charge of 0. The compound is referenced by 523 other encyclopedia articles.
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Chemical data
- Formula
- C7H5NaO2
- Molecular weight
- 144.1 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- sodium benzoate
- SMILES
- C1=CC=C(C=C1)C(=O)[O-].[Na+]
- InChIKey
- WXMKPNITSTVMEF-UHFFFAOYSA-M
- Polar surface area
- 40.1 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Research
2,553 papers- Sodium Benzoate-Harmfulness and Potential Use in Therapies for Disorders Related to the Nervous System: A Review.Nutrients · 2022
- Sodium Phenylacetate and Sodium Benzoate.2006
- Sodium benzoate for the treatment of hepatic encephalopathy in humans and animals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology · 2025
- Probiotics derived sodium benzoate improves social behavior of offspring exposed in the maternal immune activation through regulation of histone lysine benzoylation in astrocytes.Molecular psychiatry · 2025
- Sodium benzoate-induced pruritus.Allergy · 2006
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Encyclopedic overview
Sodium benzoate, also known as benzoate of soda, is the sodium salt of benzoic acid, widely used as a food preservative (with an E number of E211) and a pickling agent. It appears as a white crystalline chemical with the formula C6H5COONa.
Production
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sodium benzoate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.