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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:benzoyl group
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Accession:CHEBI:22733 term browser browse the term
Definition:The aroyl group formed by loss of OH from the carboxy group of benzoic acid; used as a protecting group in organic synthesis.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: benzoyl
 related_synonym: Bz;   C6H5-CO-;   Formula=C7H5O;   SMILES=C1=CC(=CC=C1)C(*)=O;   benzenecarbonyl;   benzenecarbonyl group;   phenylcarbonyl



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  CHEBI ontology 19909
    role 19880
      application 19720
        protecting group 0
          benzoyl group 0
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  CHEBI ontology 19909
    subatomic particle 19907
      composite particle 19907
        hadron 19907
          baryon 19907
            nucleon 19907
              atomic nucleus 19907
                atom 19907
                  main group element atom 19846
                    p-block element atom 19846
                      carbon group element atom 19784
                        carbon atom 19781
                          organic molecular entity 19781
                            heteroorganic entity 19540
                              organochalcogen compound 19301
                                organooxygen compound 19216
                                  carbon oxoacid 18696
                                    carboxylic acid 18693
                                      aromatic carboxylic acid 13822
                                        benzoic acids 13805
                                          benzoic acid 5524
                                            benzoyl group 0
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