N-Acetylmuramic acid
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| IUPAC name N-Acetylmuramic acid | |
| Systematic IUPAC name (2R)-2-{[(2R,3R,4R,5R)-2-Acetamido-4,5,6-trihydroxy-1-oxohexan-3-yl]oxy}propanoic acid | |
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| ECHA InfoCard | 100.031.092 | 
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| Properties | |
| C11H19NO8 | |
| Molar mass | 293.272 g·mol−1 | 
| Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa). Infobox references | |
N-Acetylmuramic acid (NAM or MurNAc) is an organic compound with the chemical formula C
11H
19NO
8. It is a monomer of peptidoglycan in most bacterial cell walls, which is built from alternating units of N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) and N-acetylmuramic acid, cross-linked by oligopeptides at the lactic acid residue of MurNAc.