Compound
rac-lactic acid
No description recorded for this entry yet. Everything this graph holds about rac-lactic acid is below.
Structure
ChEBI records no single structure for this entry. That is normal for a class rather than a molecule — “a fatty acid” is a real entry with many structures and no one of them.
- Class
- Organic compound
- Formula
- C3H6O3
- Mass
- 90.078 g/mol
- Charge
- 0
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- ChEBI
Identity from ChEBI. Not evidence — none of it carries a grade.
What the reference databases state
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Statements
2 statements
2 statements in 1 reference database name rac-lactic acid — ChEBI. Press a relation to see only its rows; every count is the rows behind it.
- rac-lactic acid is converted to (R)-lactic acidCompoundChEBI CHEBI:28358Inferred only
- rac-lactic acid is converted to (S)-lactic acidCompoundChEBI CHEBI:28358Inferred only
Other names
11 names
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- Also called
- (+-)-2-hydroxypropanoic acid(±)-2-hydroxypropanoic acid2-Hydroxypropanoic acid2-Hydroxypropionic acidalpha-hydroxypropanoic acidalpha-hydroxypropionic acidE270Lactic acidα-hydroxypropanoic acidα-hydroxypropionic acid
- Systematic name
- rac-2-hydroxypropanoic acid