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methylcyclopentane
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Methylcyclopentane is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH3C5H9. It is a colourless, flammable liquid with a faint odor. It is a component of the naphthene fraction of petroleum usually obtained as a mixture with cyclohexane. It is mainly converted in naphthene reformers to benzene.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C6H12
- Molecular weight
- 84.16 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- methylcyclopentane
- SMILES
- CC1CCCC1
- InChIKey
- GDOPTJXRTPNYNR-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 3.4
- 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
- cycloalkane
- Has part
- hydrogen
- Mass
- 84.094
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- found in taxon
- Homo sapiens
- melting point
- -142.5
- chemical formula
- C₆H₁₂
- canonical SMILES
- CC1CCCC1
- Commons category
- Methylcyclopentane
- ionization energy
- 9.85
- boiling point
- 71.8
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Encyclopedic overview
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Methylcyclopentane is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH3C5H9. It is a colourless, flammable liquid with a faint odor. It is a component of the naphthene fraction of petroleum usually obtained as a mixture with cyclohexane. It is mainly converted in naphthene reformers to benzene.
As of early 1990s, it was present in American and European gasoline in small amounts, and by 2011 its share in US gasoline varied between 1 and 3%. It has a research octane number of 103 and motor octane number of 95.
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