Dihydrolipoic acid
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| Names | |
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| IUPAC name
6,8-dimercaptooctanoic acid | |
| Other names
reduced lipoic acid | |
| Identifiers | |
462-20-4  | |
| ChEBI | CHEBI:18047 |
| ChEMBL | ChEMBL225952 |
| ChemSpider | 408 |
| 6738 | |
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| KEGG | C02147 |
| MeSH | Dihydrolipoic+acid |
| PubChem | 421 |
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| Properties | |
| C8H16O2S2 | |
| Molar mass | 208.343 |
| Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa). | |
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Dihydrolipoic acid is an organic compound that is the reduced form of lipoic acid. This carboxylic acid features a pair of thiol groups. It is optically active but only the R-enantiomer is biochemically significant. The lipoic acid/dihydrolipoic acid pair participate in a variety of biochemical transformations.
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