sodium arsenite

CHEBI:29678 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

An inoganic sodium salt with formula with formula NaAsO2. — ChEBI

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Classification

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

Label unavailable CHEBI:22632
Label unavailable CHEBI:38702

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	AsO2.Na
Charge	0
Average mass	129.91 Da
Monoisotopic mass	129.9012 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	PTLRDCMBXHILCL-UHFFFAOYSA-M

SMILES

O=[As][O-].[Na+]

InChI

InChI=1S/AsHO2.Na/c2-1-3;/h(H,2,3);/q;+1/p-1

Also called

catena-poly[(oxidoarsenate-μ-oxido)]sodium (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
(NaAsO2)n (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Na+n((̶As(O−)O))̶n (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
NaAsO2 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Sodium arsenite (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Sodium dioxoarsenate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
sodium meta-arsenite (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
sodium metaarsenite (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Identifiers for this same structure in other resources. An accession that lands on two different structures in this corpus is withheld from both rather than shown here, since it names at most one of them.

Patents and articles

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wikipedia.en:Sodium_arsenite

Activity roles

Every antimicrobial role a source asserts for this compound — the unreduced evidence behind its antimicrobial_class.

antibacterial agent CHEBI:33282
antifungal agent CHEBI:35718

Source concepts

Every upstream concept that resolved to this record. The merge is the product: this is what shows ChEBI and CARD are describing the same structure.

Upstream concepts merged into this record
Source	Native ID	Label	Minted CURIE	Version
CHEBI	`CHEBI:29678`	sodium arsenite	`antibioticmech:chebi-6f5a492f14`	2026-08-30

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (CHEBI)
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

Provenance

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