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hentriacontane
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Hentriacontane, also called untriacontane, is a solid, long-chain alkane hydrocarbon with the structural formula CH3(CH2)29CH3. It is the main component of paraffin wax.
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Within Vinony's link graph, hentriacontane is referenced by 43 other articles, and connects out to plant, Pisum sativum and mass density.
It sits within the topics Alkanes and Chembox having GHS data.
Its subject is documented across 21 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C31H64
- Molecular weight
- 436.8 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- hentriacontane
- SMILES
- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
- InChIKey
- IUJAMGNYPWYUPM-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 16.4
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- alkane
- Mass
- 436.501
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- chemical formula
- C₃₁H₆₄
- canonical SMILES
- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
- subject has role
- bactericide
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Encyclopedic overview
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Hentriacontane, also called untriacontane, is a solid, long-chain alkane hydrocarbon with the structural formula CH3(CH2)29CH3. It is the main component of paraffin wax.
It is found in a variety of plants, including peas (Pisum sativum), Acacia senegal, Gymnema sylvestre and others, and also comprises about 8–9% of beeswax. It has 10,660,307,791 constitutional isomers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hentriacontane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.