Known targets — ChEMBL curated mechanism
The experimentally established mechanism targets of Nitric Acid. The predicted profile below is derived independently by chemical similarity — agreement is a validation signal, a miss is honest.
⚠ Novel chemotype — no close known analogue (best Tanimoto < 0.3). Unexplored chemical space relative to ChEMBL.
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.
| Compound | similarity | top predicted | shared targets | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitric Acid SCHEMBL28816457 | 0.95 | — | — | |
| Nitric Acid SCHEMBL121765 | 0.95 | — | — | |
| Nitric Acid SCHEMBL135901 | 0.95 | — | — | |
| Nitric Acid SCHEMBL4800710 | 0.95 | — | — | |
| Nitric Acid SCHEMBL7780977 | 0.95 | CA5A (0.89) | — | |
| Nitric Acid SCHEMBL6740484 | 0.90 | — | — | |
| Nitric Acid SCHEMBL9509493 | 0.90 | — | — | |
| Nitric Acid SCHEMBL7805209 | 0.90 | — | — | |
| Nitric Acid SCHEMBL217807 | 0.90 | — | — | |
| Nitric Acid SCHEMBL9064831 | 0.90 | — | — |
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 4 patents. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.
| Patent | Title | Assignee | Published | Priority | Filing | Country | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP-0254539-B1 | PROCESS OF ETCHING ZIRCONIUM METALLIC ARTICLES | WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION (US) | 1991-04-24 | — | — | EP | disclosed |
| US-4927492-A | Etching process for zirconium metallic objects | WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP. (US) | 1990-05-22 | — | — | US | disclosed |
| US-4738747-A | REGENERATION BATY BY ADDING HYDROFLUORIC AND NITRIC ACID | WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP. (US) | 1988-04-19 | — | — | US | disclosed |
| EP-0254539-A1 | Process of etching zirconium metallic articles | WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION (US) | 1988-01-27 | — | — | EP | disclosed |