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cetyl alcohol
Sign in to saveAlso known as hexadecan-1-ol, 1-hexadecanol, palmityl alcohol, cetanol, hexadecyl alcohol, hexadecanol, n-1-hexadecanol, 1-hexadecyl alcohol
chemical compound
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Within Vinony's link graph, cetyl alcohol is referenced by 204 other articles, and connects out to whaling, alcohols and emulsion.
It is catalogued under topics including Alkanols, Antioxidants and Chembox having GHS data.
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C16H34O
- Molecular weight
- 242.44 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- hexadecan-1-ol
- SMILES
- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCO
- InChIKey
- BXWNKGSJHAJOGX-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 7.3
- Polar surface area
- 20.2 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 1
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Max clinical phase
- Approved
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
- First approval
- 1990
- Admin. routes
- parenteral
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- primary alcohol
- Has part
- carbon
- Mass
- 242.261
- Autonomy
- 245
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- chemical formula
- C₁₆H₃₄O
- MCN code
- 2905.17.20
- canonical SMILES
- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCO
- safety classification and labelling
- Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008
- Commons category
- Cetyl alcohol
- melting point
- 49.30
- boiling point
- 334
- density
- 0.84
- refractive index
- 1.4283
- phase point
- critical point
- flash point
- 155
- dynamic viscosity
- 8.0
- median lethal dose (LD50)
- 5
- subject has role
- primary metabolite
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