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cyclooctane
Sign in to saveCyclooctane is a cycloalkane with the molecular formula (CH2)8. It is a simple colourless hydrocarbon, but it is often a reference compound for saturated eight-membered ring compounds in general.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C8H16
- Molecular weight
- 112.21 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- cyclooctane
- SMILES
- C1CCCCCCC1
- InChIKey
- WJTCGQSWYFHTAC-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 4.5
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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Research
215 papers- Bis(oxiranes) Containing Cyclooctane Core: Synthesis and Reactivity towards NaN(3).Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
- Synthesis of Pleuromutilin.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2022
- Analyzing the expected values of neighborhood degree-based topological indices in random cyclooctane chains.Frontiers in chemistry · 2024
- Mono- and bis(steroids) containing a cyclooctane core: Synthesis, antiproliferative activity, and action on cell cytoskeleton microtubules.Archiv der Pharmazie · 2024
- Computation of expected values of some connectivity based topological descriptors of random cyclooctane chains.Scientific reports · 2024
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Conformations
- Synthesis and reactions
- References
Cyclooctane is a cycloalkane with the molecular formula (CH2)8. It is a simple colourless hydrocarbon, but it is often a reference compound for saturated eight-membered ring compounds in general.
Cyclooctane has a camphoraceous odor.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cyclooctane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.