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Also known as 1-heptene, n-hept-1-ene, n-1-heptene

1-Heptene is an organic compound with the formula . It is the terminal "linear" C7 alkene. A colorless volatile liquid, it is produced as one of myriad products by the Fischer-Tropsch Process. It is used to prepare 1-octene, a common comonomer. It is classified as higher olefin, or alkene with the formula C7H14.

Chemical data

Formula
C7H14
Molecular weight
98.19 g/mol
IUPAC name
hept-1-ene
SMILES
CCCCCC=C
InChIKey
ZGEGCLOFRBLKSE-UHFFFAOYSA-N
XLogP
4
Polar surface area
0 Ų
H-bond donors
0
H-bond acceptors
0
Formal charge
0

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
heptene
Mass
98.10955
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found in taxon
Attalea speciosa
chemical formula
C₇H₁₄
canonical SMILES
CCCCCC=C
speed of sound
1128
Commons category
1-Heptene
melting point
-119.7
ionization energy
9.44
boiling point
93.64
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1-Heptene is an organic compound with the formula . It is the terminal "linear" C7 alkene. A colorless volatile liquid, it is produced as one of myriad products by the Fischer-Tropsch Process. It is used to prepare 1-octene, a common comonomer. It is classified as higher olefin, or alkene with the formula C7H14.

Four isomers of 1-heptene are known: cis- and trans-2-heptene as well as cis- and trans-3-heptene.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hept-1-ene” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.