edetic acid

chemical compound used for industrial and chemical purpose

Class type of: tetracarboxylic acid, tertiary amine, aminopolycarboxylic acid Q408032

Facts

15 properties

Instance of: type of chemical entity
Subclass of: tetracarboxylic acid, tertiary amine, aminopolycarboxylic acid
Has use: medication, food additive^[8]^[9]
Canonical SMILES: C(CN(CC(=O)O)CC(=O)O)N(CC(=O)O)CC(=O)O^[5]
Chemical formula: C₁₀H₁₆N₂O₈, H₄EDTA^[6]^[7]
Decomposition point: +241^[16]
Density: +0.86^[13]
Different from: ethylenediaminetetraacetate^[12]
Found in taxon: Perilla frutescens, Microcystis aeruginosa^[10]^[11]
Mass: +292.09066547199996^[14]
Medical condition treated: hypercalcemia^[17]
Melting point: +241^[15]
Safety classification and labelling: NFPA 704: Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response^[22]
Subject has role: chelating agent, calcium chelating agents, anticoagulant^[19]^[20]^[21]
World Health Organisation international non-proprietary name: edetic acid^[18]

🏷️ Also known as

en versene Acid en H4Edta en ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid en N,N'-1,2-ethane diylbis-(N-(carboxymethyl)glycine) en {[-(bis-carboxymethyl-amino)-ethyl]-carboxymethyl-amino}-acetic acid en edetic acid en EDTA ar ثنائي أمين الإيثلين رباعي حمض الخل ar إي دي تي آ ar EDTA ar ثنائي أمين الإيثيلين رباعي حمض الأسيتيك cs Kyselina ethylen-1,2-diamintetraoctová cs Chelaton 2 cs Kyselina ethylen-1,2-diamintetraethanová cs Kyselina etylendiamintetraoctová cs Kyselina etylendiamintetraetanová cs Kyselina etylen-1,2-diamintetraoctová cs Kyselina etylen-1,2-diamintetraetanová cs Kyselina ethylendiamintetraoctová cs Kyselina ethylendiamintetraethanová

🔖 Identifiers · 61

OpenAlex ID: C2778973965, C2909460087
AGROVOC ID: c_10540
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID: 300379820
CAMEO Chemicals ID: 3408
CAS Registry Number: 60-00-4
ChEBI ID: 42191, 4735
ChEMBL ID: CHEMBL858
ChemSpider ID: 5826
CosIng number: 33756
DSSTOX compound identifier: DTXCID902977
DSSTox substance ID: DTXSID6022977
DrugBank ID: DB00974

Show all 61 identifiers +49

DrugCentral ID: 987
EC number: 200-449-4
ECHA Substance Infocard ID: 100.000.409
Elhuyar ZTH ID: 133360
Encyclopaedia Beliana ID: edta
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: science/edetic-acid
Freebase ID: /m/04khtxp
Gmelin number: 144943
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID: EDTA
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017): 4916796
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID: etilendiamintetrauksusnaia-kislota-08f77c
HCIS ID: 1835
HSDB ID: 809
Human Metabolome Database ID: HMDB0015109
ICSC ID: 0886
InChI: InChI=1S/C10H16N2O8/c13-7(14)3-11(4-8(15)16)1-2-12(5-9(17)18)6-10(19)20/h1-6H2,(H,13,14)(H,15,16)(H,17,18)(H,19,20)
InChIKey: KCXVZYZYPLLWCC-UHFFFAOYSA-N
KBpedia ID: EthylenediaminetetraaceticAcid
KEGG ID: D00052
KNApSAcK ID: C00062378
Lex ID: EDTA
MassBank accession ID: MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500501, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500503, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500505, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500507, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500509, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500551, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500552, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500554, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500555, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500556, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500504, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500506, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500508, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500553, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500557, MSBNK-Eawag-EQ500502
MeSH concept ID: M0007067
MeSH descriptor ID: D004492
MeSH tree code: D02.092.782.258.368.250, D02.241.081.018.253
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2778973965
NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry: edetic-acid, edta
NDF-RT ID: N0000145867
NMRShiftDB structure ID: 10016980
Nikkaji ID: J4.406G
Open Food Facts food additive ID: e385-calcium-disodium-ethylenediaminetetraacetate
PDB ligand ID: EDT
PDB structure ID: 3RNJ, 3L7M, 1NNF, 4OES, 5DSG, 2AXN, 1ZLQ, 3L7K, 3T8N, 3WFA
PesticideInfo chemical ID: PRI2965
Probes And Drugs ID: PD002353
PubChem CID: 6049, 5232305
RTECS number: AH4025000
Reaxys registry number: 1716295, 3914756
RxNorm CUI: 3755
Römpp online ID: RD-05-01993
SPLASH: splash10-0f6x-2971000000-52370879752b5b63ccc2
Store medisinske leksikon ID: EDTA
SureChEMBL ID: 30.2M (1.4k–30.2M, n=3)
UMLS CUI: C0013618
UN number: 3077
UNII: 9G34HU7RV0
UniChem compound ID: 558218
Wellcome Collection concept ID: hjp8ae6u
ZVG number: 34820

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🔗 Connections

Found in taxon 2

Perilla frutescens, Microcystis aeruginosa

Has use 2

medication, food additive

Belongs to 1

TE buffer

Medical condition treated 1

hypercalcemia

Subclass of 1

aminopolycarboxylic acid

Subject has role 1

anticoagulant

← Drug or therapy used for treatment 1

hypercalcemia

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Summary

edetic acid is a type of chemical entity^[1]. It is a type of tetracarboxylic acid^[2], tertiary amine^[3], and aminopolycarboxylic acid^[4].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[5] ↑ edetic acid — canonical SMILES (P233): C(CN(CC(=O)O)CC(=O)O)N(CC(=O)O)CC(=O)O. PubChem. Retrieved 2016-11-19. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ edetic acid — chemical formula (P274): C₁₀H₁₆N₂O₈. PubChem. Retrieved 2016-11-19. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ edetic acid — chemical formula (P274): H₄EDTA. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ edetic acid — subclass of (P279): tetracarboxylic acid. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ edetic acid — subclass of (P279): tertiary amine. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ edetic acid — subclass of (P279): aminopolycarboxylic acid. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ edetic acid — has use (P366): medication. DrugBank. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ edetic acid — has use (P366): food additive. Medical Subject Headings. Retrieved 2018-03-15. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ edetic acid — found in taxon (P703): Perilla frutescens. Intake of Alpha-Linolenic Acid-Rich Perilla frutescens Leaf Powder Decreases Home Blood Pressure and Serum Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein in Japanese Adults. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ edetic acid — found in taxon (P703): Microcystis aeruginosa. Metabolomics-Guided Discovery of Microginin Peptides from Cultures of the Cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa.. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ edetic acid — different from (P1889): ethylenediaminetetraacetate. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ edetic acid — density (P2054): 0.86 gram per cubic centimetre. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ edetic acid — mass (P2067): 292.09066547199996 dalton. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ edetic acid — melting point (P2101): 241 °C. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ edetic acid — decomposition point (P2107): 241 °C. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ edetic acid — medical condition treated (P2175): hypercalcemia. NDF-RT. Retrieved 2016-12-13. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ edetic acid — World Health Organisation international non-proprietary name (P2275): edetic acid. ChEBI. Retrieved 2016-10-19. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ edetic acid — subject has role (P2868): chelating agent. NDF-RT. Retrieved 2018-03-05. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ edetic acid — subject has role (P2868): calcium chelating agents. Medical Subject Headings. Retrieved 2018-03-15. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ edetic acid — subject has role (P2868): anticoagulant. Medical Subject Headings. Retrieved 2018-03-15. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ edetic acid — safety classification and labelling (P4952): NFPA 704: Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ edetic acid is an instance of type of chemical entity (Q113145171) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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20d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'azb', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', '

Sitelink count → 48

Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID → EDTA

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ZVG number → 34820

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6w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Mass → {'unit': 'Q483261', 'amount': '+292.09066547199996'}

Safety classification and labelling → NFPA 704: Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response

Chemical formula → C₁₀H₁₆N₂O₈, H₄EDTA

Open Food Facts food additive ID → e385-calcium-disodium-ethylenediaminetetraacetate

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