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3-heptanol

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3-heptanol

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3-Heptanol or heptan-3-ol is an organic alcohol with the chemical formula C7H16O.

Chemical data

Formula
C7H16O
Molecular weight
116.2 g/mol
IUPAC name
heptan-3-ol
SMILES
CCCCC(CC)O
InChIKey
RZKSECIXORKHQS-UHFFFAOYSA-N
XLogP
2.2
Polar surface area
20.2 Ų
H-bond donors
1
H-bond acceptors
1
Formal charge
0

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Molecule type
Small molecule

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
Heptanoles
Mass
116.12
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chemical formula
C₇H₁₆O
canonical SMILES
CCCCC(CC)O
has characteristic
bitterness
Commons category
3-Heptanol
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3-Heptanol or heptan-3-ol is an organic alcohol with the chemical formula C7H16O.

3-Heptanol is chiral, so (R)- and (S)- isomers exist.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “3-heptanol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.