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chamazulene
Sign in to saveChamazulene is an aromatic chemical compound with the molecular formula C14H16 found in a variety of plants including in chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla), wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), and yarrow (Achillea millefolium). It is a blue-violet derivative of azulene formed from sesquiterpene matricin after the loss of acetate, water and carbon dioxide during the steam distillation of chamomile blossoms. Oral ingestion of matricin results in chamazulene being found in blood plasma and artificial gastric fluid is able to convert matricin to chamazulene.
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Vinony files it under Azulenes, ECHA InfoCard ID from Wikidata and Hydrocarbons.
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Chemical data
- Formula
- C14H16
- Molecular weight
- 184.28 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 7-ethyl-1,4-dimethylazulene
- SMILES
- CCC1=CC2=C(C=CC2=C(C=C1)C)C
- InChIKey
- GXGJIOMUZAGVEH-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 4.4
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 184.125
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- chemical formula
- C₁₄H₁₆
- canonical SMILES
- CCC1=CC2=C(C=CC2=C(C=C1)C)C
- Commons category
- Chamazulene
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Chamazulene is an aromatic chemical compound with the molecular formula C14H16 found in a variety of plants including in chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla), wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), and yarrow (Achillea millefolium). It is a blue-violet derivative of azulene formed from sesquiterpene matricin after the loss of acetate, water and carbon dioxide during the steam distillation of chamomile blossoms. Oral ingestion of matricin results in chamazulene being found in blood plasma and artificial gastric fluid is able to convert matricin to chamazulene.
thumb|500px|left|class=skin-invert-image|Degradation of matricin (1) to chamazulene (3) via chamazulene carboxylic acid (2).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chamazulene” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.