heavy water

Chemical data

Formula

H2O

Molecular weight

20.028 g/mol

IUPAC name

deuterated water

SMILES

[2H]O[2H]

InChIKey

XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-ZSJDYOACSA-N

XLogP

-0.5

Polar surface area

1 Ų

H-bond donors

1

H-bond acceptors

1

Formal charge

0

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• Sweet taste of heavy water.Communications biology · 2021Ben Abu N, Mason PE, Klein H et al.DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-01964-y
• Heavy water coupling gel for short-wave infrared photoacoustic imaging.Journal of biomedical optics · 2023Salinas CM, Reichel E, Gupta A et al.DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.28.11.116001
• Research Progress in the Medical Application of Heavy Water, Especially in the Field of D(2)O-Raman Spectroscopy.ReviewInternational journal of medical sciences · 2022Wang X, Liu NM, Zhao YF et al.DOI: 10.7150/ijms.73150
• Deuterated water ((2)H(2)O, heavy water) labelling to investigate human cell dynamics in vivo - lessons in protocol design and toxicity from the current literature.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Song A, Zhang Y, Busch R et al.DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1544193
• Reducing the water quenching processes using heavy water in capillary electrophoresis with fluorescence detection.Journal of chromatography. A · 2024Mádi L, Kučera J, Káňa Š et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2024.465411
• Heavy Water Lengthens the Molecular Circadian Clock Period in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus of Mice In Vitro.Journal of biological rhythms · 2021Sujino M, Koinuma S, Minami Y et al.DOI: 10.1177/07487304211012905
• Heavy Water Reduces the Electronic Conductance of Protein Wires via Deuteron Interactions with Aromatic Residues.Nano letters · 2023Afsari S, Mukherjee S, Halloran N et al.DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02263
• Role of heavy water in biological sciences with an emphasis on thermostabilization of vaccines.ReviewExpert review of vaccines · 2009Sen A, Balamurugan V, Rajak KK et al.DOI: 10.1586/erv.09.105

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