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Glutaconaldehyde
Sign in to saveGlutaconaldehyde is an organic compound with the formula C5H6O2. It is an unsaturated dialdehyde as is related to glutaraldehyde and glutaconic acid, but exists in its enol form due to the conjugation with the double bond.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C5H6O2
- Molecular weight
- 98.1 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- (2E,4E)-5-hydroxypenta-2,4-dienal
- SMILES
- C(=C/C=O)\C=C\O
- InChIKey
- WFSXUTWNNVIIIG-ZPUQHVIOSA-N
- XLogP
- 0.3
- Polar surface area
- 37.3 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 1
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- aldehydes
- Mass
- 98.036779
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- chemical formula
- C₅H₆O₂
- canonical SMILES
- C(=CC=O)C=CO
- isomeric SMILES
- C(=C/C=O)\C=C\O
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Glutaconaldehyde is an organic compound with the formula C5H6O2. It is an unsaturated dialdehyde as is related to glutaraldehyde and glutaconic acid, but exists in its enol form due to the conjugation with the double bond.
Both the sodium and potassium salts of glutaconaldehyde are known. They are efficiently synthesized from pyridinium sulfonate. Image:Glutaconaldehyde_formation.gif
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