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3-octanol
Sign in to saveAlso known as ethylhexyl alcohol, 1-ethylhexanol, Ethyl pentyl carbinol, octan-3-ol
3-Octanol is an organic chemical compound and a chiral alcohol. It is a fatty alcohol that is poorly soluble in water but soluble in most organic solvents.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C8H18O
- Molecular weight
- 130.23 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- octan-3-ol
- SMILES
- CCCCCC(CC)O
- InChIKey
- NMRPBPVERJPACX-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 2.8
- Polar surface area
- 20.2 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 1
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- octanol
- Mass
- 130.136
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- canonical SMILES
- CCCCCC(CC)O
- chemical formula
- C₈H₁₈O
- melting point
- -45.0
- Commons category
- 3-Octanol
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Encyclopedic overview
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- References
3-Octanol is an organic chemical compound and a chiral alcohol. It is a fatty alcohol that is poorly soluble in water but soluble in most organic solvents.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “3-octanol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.