sodium nitrite

CHEBI:78870 ·resolve ·BIOCIDE ·EXACT SEEDED

An inorganic sodium salt having nitrite as the counterion. Used as a food preservative and antidote to cyanide poisoning. — ChEBI

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Classification

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

Label unavailable CHEBI:38702
Label unavailable CHEBI:46648

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	NO2.Na
Charge	0
Average mass	68.995 Da
Monoisotopic mass	68.98267 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	LPXPTNMVRIOKMN-UHFFFAOYSA-M

SMILES

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

InChI

InChI=1S/HNO2.Na/c2-1-3;/h(H,2,3);/q;+1/p-1

Also called

NaNO2 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Natrium nitrit (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Nitrite de sodium (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Nitrito sodico (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.

cas:7632-00-0
reaxys:906771

Drug registries

Identifiers that name a drug rather than a structure. One of these can cover a parent compound, its salts and its stereoisomers, which this corpus keeps as separate records, so it is not an equivalence of structure.

kegg.drug:D05865

Patents and articles

Documents about this compound. A patent covers a class and an article covers a topic; neither identifies a structure.

wikipedia.en:Sodium_nitrite

Activity roles

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

antimicrobial food preservative CHEBI:65256

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:78870`	sodium nitrite	`antibioticmech:chebi-3d78de8b5b`	2026-08-30

Mechanism summary

Clinical status: APPROVED

Curation history

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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
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Provenance

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