sodium arsenite

CHEBI:29678 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

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

Machine-generated and unreviewed. Identity, structure and cross-references come straight from ChEBI's and CARD's own data; no curator has signed off on this record yet.

Classification

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

CHEBI:22632 CHEBI:22632
CHEBI:38702 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

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:7784-46-5
kegg.compound:C11906
metacyc.compound:CPD0-1496
ppdb:2877
reaxys:14201303
reaxys:16472677
wikipedia.en:Sodium_arsenite

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:33282 CHEBI:33282
CHEBI:35718 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

Provenance

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