sodium hypochlorite
CHEBI:32146
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An inorganic sodium salt in which hypochlorite is the counterion. It is used as a bleaching and disinfecting agent and is commonly found in household bleach. — 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.
Chemical structure
Computed structure properties
| Molecular formula | ClO.Na |
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| Charge | 0 |
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| Average mass | 74.442 Da |
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| Monoisotopic mass | 73.95354 Da |
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| Source | ChEBI |
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| InChIKey | SUKJFIGYRHOWBL-UHFFFAOYSA-N |
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SMILES
[Na+].[O-]Cl
InChI
InChI=1S/ClO.Na/c1-2;/q-1;+1
Also called
- Texant (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
- Hypochlorite sodium (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- Hypochlorous acid, sodium salt (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- NaClO (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- NaOCl (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
- Sodium oxychloride (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Cross-references
Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.
Activity roles
Every antimicrobial role a source asserts for this compound — the
unreduced evidence behind its antimicrobial_class.
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 |
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| CHEBI |
CHEBI:32146 |
sodium hypochlorite |
antibioticmech:chebi-361485b64b |
2026-08-30 |
Curation history
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SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES
2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (CHEBI)
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2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES
2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
Provenance
Seeded by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed
inventories in data/raw/.
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