PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION

H.S. CODE

TOXICITY

C1[C@@](C[C@H]([C@@H]([C@@H]1O)O)O)(O)C(=O)O

CLASSIFICATION

Cyclic polyol

EXTRA NOTES

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES

REFRACTIVE INDEX

EXTERNAL LINKS & GENERAL DESCRIPTION

USA.gov - Quinic acid

Wikipedia Linking - Quinic acid

Google Scholar Search - Quinic acid

U.S. National Library of Medicine - Quinic acid

PubChem Compound Summary - Quinic acid

KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) -  Quinic acid

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/ -  Quinic acid

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ -  Quinic acid

Material Safety Data Sheet - Quinic acid

EPA - Substance Registry Services - Quinic acid

Local:
Quinic acid is a white crystalline compound of nonnitrogenous acid found in various plants, such as cinchona bark, coffee beans, leaves of  tobacco and carrot, and etc. It is soluble in water, alcohol and glacial acetic acid but insoluble in ether; melting at 162 C. It has two fuctional groups in the same molecule, hydroxyl groups and a carboxylic acid group which are optically active. They can yield various kinds of esters and salts. It belongs to the class of cyclitol, a polyhydroxylated cycloalkane containing at least three hydroxy groups in the ring at different positions. Examples of cyclitol are inositol and shikimic acid. The most important feature of cyclitol is that there are chiral isomers, key intermediates in the biosynthesis of aromatic compounds in living metabolism. Quinic acid is widely used as a chiral building block for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals. An example of end product is an antiviral drug oseltamivir, a neuraminidase inhibitor used in the treatment and prophylaxis of both influenza A and influenza B.

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