Guanidinoacetic Acid
Exact match- IUPAC name
- 2-(diaminomethylideneamino)acetic acid
- Molecular formula
- C3H7N3O2
- Molecular weight
- 117.11 g/mol
- InChIKey
- BPMFZUMJYQTVII-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- PubChem CID
- 763
Guanidinoacetic acid is the N-amidino derivative of glycine. It has a role as a nutraceutical, a mouse metabolite, a bacterial metabolite, a human metabolite and a rat metabolite. It is a conjugate acid of a guanidinoacetate. It is a tautomer of a guanidinoacetic acid zwitterion.
Exact CosIng INCI name equals a PubChem synonym · Checked 2026-08-31