Glycolic Acid

Glycolic Acid

SCHEMBL216990

O=C([O-])CO.O=C([O-])CO.[Ca+2]

nearest known ligand 0.50

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Known targets — ChEMBL curated mechanism

GABBR1GABBR2GABRA1GABRA2GABRA3GABRA4GABRA5GABRA6GABRB1GABRB2GABRB3GABRDGABREGABRG1GABRG2GABRG3GABRPGABRQGRIN1GRIN2AGRIN2BGRIN2CGRIN2DGRIN3AGRIN3BHMGCRMMP1MMP13MMP7MMP8PTGS1PTGS2ileSpolrplArplBrplCrplDrplErplFrplJrplKrplLrplMrplNrplOrplPrplQrplRrplSrplTrplUrplVrplWrplXrplYrpmArpmBrpmCrpmDrpmErpmFrpmGrpmHrpmIrpmJrpsArpsBrpsCrpsDrpsErpsFrpsGrpsHrpsIrpsJrpsKrpsLrpsMrpsNrpsOrpsPrpsQrpsRrpsSrpsTrpsUykgMykgO

The experimentally established mechanism targets of Glycolic Acid. The predicted profile below is derived independently by chemical similarity — agreement is a validation signal, a miss is honest.

Predicted protein targets (top 15)

geneUniProtsupporting neighboursconfidence
CA4 P22748 6/20 0.50
OR51E2 Q9H255 1/20 0.44
CASP1 P29466 1/20 0.44
FFAR3 O14843 2/20 0.39
HDAC3 O15379 2/20 0.39
HDAC1 Q13547 2/20 0.39
HDAC2 Q92769 2/20 0.39
HDAC8 Q9BY41 2/20 0.39
CA1 P00915 3/20 0.36
FAHD1 Q6P587 1/20 0.36
CA2 P00918 1/20 0.35
KDM4E B2RXH2 1/20 0.33
MAPT P10636 1/20 0.33
ALOX15 P16050 1/20 0.33
SMN1; SMN2 Q16637 1/20 0.33

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Similar compounds — the chemically nearest patent molecules

Nearest neighbours by Morgan-fingerprint cosine across the patent-compound collection, with each neighbour's top predicted target and the predicted targets it shares with this molecule.

Compoundsimilaritytop predictedshared targets
Glycolic Acid SCHEMBL21297631 1.00 CA4 (0.50) CA4OR51E2CASP1FFAR3HDAC3
Glycolic Acid SCHEMBL7043974 0.96 CA4 (0.47) CA4OR51E2CASP1FFAR3HDAC3
Glycolic Acid SCHEMBL10878578 0.91 CA4 (0.50) CA4OR51E2CASP1FFAR3HDAC3
Glycolic Acid SCHEMBL3163786 0.91 CA4 (0.50) CA4OR51E2CASP1FFAR3HDAC3
Glycolic Acid SCHEMBL376971 0.91 CA4 (0.50) CA4OR51E2CASP1FFAR3HDAC3
Glycolic Acid SCHEMBL15441504 0.91 CA4 (0.50) CA4OR51E2CASP1FFAR3HDAC3
Glycolic Acid SCHEMBL4522823 0.91 CA4 (0.50) CA4OR51E2CASP1FFAR3HDAC3
Glycolic Acid SCHEMBL1002389 0.91 CA4 (0.50) CA4OR51E2CASP1FFAR3HDAC3
Glycolic Acid SCHEMBL991430 0.91
Glycolic Acid SCHEMBL26512 0.91 CA4 (0.50) CA4OR51E2CASP1FFAR3HDAC3

Similarity is cosine over the 2,048-bit Morgan fingerprint (≈ Tanimoto). Identical fingerprints score 1.00.

Patent provenance — the patents this molecule appears in, and who filed them

Claimed or disclosed in 1883 patents — showing the first 20. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.

PatentTitleAssigneePublishedPriorityFilingCountryStatus
US-20260069911-A1 ENVIRONMENTALLY-CLEAN FIRE INHIBITING BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS, SOLUTIONS AND POWDERS, AND METHODS OF AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING FIRE PROTECTED WOOD PRODUCTS MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER LLC (US) 2026-03-12 US claimed
US-20260069910-A1 ENVIRONMENTALLY-CLEAN WATER-BASED FIRE INHIBITING BIOCHEMICAL SOLUTIONS AND METHODS OF AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING THE SAME TO PROTECT PROPERTY AGAINST WILDFIRE MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER LLC (US) 2026-03-12 US claimed
US-20260048289-A1 ENVIRONMENTALLY-SAFE WATER-BASED FIRE RETARDANT BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS FORMULATED USING ALKALI METAL SALTS, FREE FROM PHOSPHATES, NITRATES, AND AMMONIUM-SALTS, FOR NON-CORROSIVE AERIAL AND GROUND DELIVERY ONTO PROPERTY REQUIRING LONG-TERM PROTECTION AGAINST WILDFIRE MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER LLC (US) 2026-02-19 US claimed
US-20260014403-A1 ENVIRONMENTALLY-CLEAN WATER-BASED FIRE INHIBITING BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS, SOLUTIONS, POWDERS AND METHODS OF AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING FIRE PROTECTED WOOD AND ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER LLC (US) 2026-01-15 US claimed
WO-2025245031-A1 ENVIRONMENTALLY-CLEAN WATER-BASED FIRE-INHIBITING BIOCHEMICAL SOLUTIONS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING TO PROTECT PROPERTY AGAINST WILDFIRE MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER LLC (US) 2025-11-27 WO claimed
US-20250121230-A1 ENVIRONMENTALLY-CLEAN WATER-BASED FIRE INHIBITING BIOCHEMICAL SOLUTIONS FORMULATED USING ALKALI METAL SALTS OF GLYCOLIC ACID FOR PROTECTING PROPERTY AGAINST WILDFIRE MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER LLC (US) 2025-04-17 US claimed
CN-119431191-A Procoagulant compound and preparation method and application thereof 中国科学院长春应用化学研究所 2025-02-14 CN claimed
CN-119350289-A Method for preparing high-purity 1, 4-dioxane-2-ketone at low cost 青岛科技大学 2025-01-24 CN claimed
EP-4153696-B1 ACIDIZING TREATMENT FLUID FOR DELAYED ACIDIFICATION IN THE OIL FIELD INDUSTRY NOURYON CHEMICALS INT BV (NL) 2025-01-01 EP claimed
US-20240366982-A1 ENVIRONMENTALLY-CLEAN WATER-BASED FIRE INHIBITING BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING THE SAME TO PROTECT PROPERTY AGAINST WILDFIRE MIGHTY FIRE BREAKER LLC (US) 2024-11-07 US claimed
US-5948592-A MIXTURE OF CASEIN AND CALCIUM COMPOUND FUJI CHEMICALS INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD. (JP) 1999-09-07 US claimed
EP-0909992-A1 Water-soluble photoresist composition Fuji Chemicals Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) 1999-04-21 EP claimed
EP-0854019-A1 Razor comfort strip with alphahydroxy acid additive WARNER-LAMBERT COMPANY (US) 1998-07-22 EP claimed
US-5776473-A Razor comfort strip with alpha-hydroxy acid additive WARNER-LAMBERT COMPANY (US) 1998-07-07 US claimed
EP-0577059-B1 Oxychlorination catalyst, process for preparing the catalyst and method of oxychlorination with use of the catalyst SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO (JP) 1997-09-24 EP claimed
US-5334789-A Oxychlorination of olefin or aromatic hydrocarbon with oxygen and hydrogen chloride in presence of catalyst containing compounds of palladium, copper, vanadium on carrier SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED (JP) 1994-08-02 US claimed
EP-0577059-A1 Oxychlorination catalyst, process for preparing the catalyst and method of oxychlorination with use of the catalyst SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY LIMITED (JP) 1994-01-05 EP claimed
US-5051394-A Precipitation and roasting AGENCY OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (JP) 1991-09-24 US claimed
US-RE30755-E PREFERENTIAL REACTION OF AN ALKALI CARBONATE AND THE IMPURE ZINC OR ALKALINE SALTS; STOICHIOMETRY ETHYL CORPORATION (US) 1981-09-29 US claimed
US-4264368-A A-HYDROXYCARBOXYLIC ACID OR SALT SIKA CHEMICAL CORPORATION (US) 1981-04-28 US claimed

Patent text — is the patent's own abstract consistent with the prediction?

For each of this compound's patents that has machine-readable text (4 of them — usually the abstract, not the full specification), we ask MedCPT which protein the text reads most about, and where the chemistry-predicted target lands among 4885 human targets. A high rank means the patent's own wording is consistent with the prediction — a weak, independent signal, not proof of activity.

PatentTitleText reads most aboutPredicted target · text-rank
US-20260069910-A1 ENVIRONMENTALLY-CLEAN WATER-BASED FIRE INHIBITING BIOCHEMICAL SOLUTIONS AND METHODS OF AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING THE SAME TO PROTECT PROPERTY AGAINST WILDFIRE CA2, CA1, CA7 CA4 10/4885OR51E2 4408/4885CASP1 87/4885
US-20260014403-A1 ENVIRONMENTALLY-CLEAN WATER-BASED FIRE INHIBITING BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS, SOLUTIONS, POWDERS AND METHODS OF AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING FIRE PROTECTED WOOD AND ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS ME1, ATP6V1A, ATP5MF CA4 47/4885OR51E2 4054/4885CASP1 1443/4885
US-20260048289-A1 ENVIRONMENTALLY-SAFE WATER-BASED FIRE RETARDANT BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS FORMULATED USING ALKALI METAL SALTS, FREE FROM PHOSPHATES, NITRATES, AND AMMONIUM-SALTS, FOR NON-CORROSIVE AERIAL AND GROUND DELIVERY ONTO PROPERTY REQUIRING LONG-TERM PROTECTION AGAINST WILDFIRE CA3, CA2, FIBP CA4 20/4885OR51E2 4315/4885CASP1 1994/4885
US-20260069911-A1 ENVIRONMENTALLY-CLEAN FIRE INHIBITING BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS, SOLUTIONS AND POWDERS, AND METHODS OF AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING FIRE PROTECTED WOOD PRODUCTS FGB, ACTB, FOSB CA4 86/4885OR51E2 3293/4885CASP1 560/4885

“Text reads most about” is the patent abstract's nearest protein in MedCPT space (background-debiased). Only ~1.4% of patents have machine-readable text, so most compounds won't have this panel.