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(2E)-2-hexenal
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'''trans-2-Hexenal' is an organic unsaturated aldehyde with a six-carbon chain. This clear, pale yellow liquid has a green, leafy, herbal fruit smell. It occurs naturally in a wide variety of plants, fruits, vegetables, and spices, and appears to be an important mediating and signalling chemical in plant-fungus and plant-insect interactions, such as the symbiosis between acacia ants and Acacias''.
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- Mass
- 98.073
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- chemical formula
- C₆H₁₀O
- canonical SMILES
- CCCC=CC=O
- isomeric SMILES
- CCC/C=C/C=O
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'''trans-2-Hexenal' is an organic unsaturated aldehyde with a six-carbon chain. This clear, pale yellow liquid has a green, leafy, herbal fruit smell. It occurs naturally in a wide variety of plants, fruits, vegetables, and spices, and appears to be an important mediating and signalling chemical in plant-fungus and plant-insect interactions, such as the symbiosis between acacia ants and Acacias.
==Occurrence==