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heptadecane
Sign in to saveHeptadecane is an organic compound, an alkane hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C17H36. The name may refer to any of 24894 theoretically possible structural isomers, or to a mixture thereof.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C17H36
- Molecular weight
- 240.5 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- heptadecane
- SMILES
- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
- InChIKey
- NDJKXXJCMXVBJW-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 8.8
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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- boiling point
- 302.0
- canonical SMILES
- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
- chemical formula
- C₁₇H₃₆
- density
- 0.777
- refractive index
- 1.436
- melting point
- 22.0
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Heptadecane is an organic compound, an alkane hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C17H36. The name may refer to any of 24894 theoretically possible structural isomers, or to a mixture thereof.
The unbranched isomer is normal or '''n-heptadecane, CH3(CH2)15CH3. In the IUPAC nomenclature, the name of this compound is simply heptadecane', since the other isomers are viewed and named as alkyl-substituted versions of smaller alkanes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “heptadecane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.