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heptanoic acid
Sign in to saveAlso known as N-Heptanoic acid, Heptanoic acids, Heptanoate, Enanthic acid, Enanthate, n-heptoic acid, oenanthic acid
chemical compound
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Within Vinony's link graph, heptanoic acid is referenced by 163 other articles, and connects out to ester, caproic acid and caprylic acid.
It is catalogued under topics including Alkanoic acids, Chembox having GHS data and Chembox image size set.
Its subject is documented across 29 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C7H14O2
- Molecular weight
- 130.18 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- heptanoic acid
- SMILES
- CCCCCCC(=O)O
- InChIKey
- MNWFXJYAOYHMED-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 2.5
- Polar surface area
- 37.3 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 1
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Research
6,665 papers- GC-MS Analysis of Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Feces, Cecum Content, and Blood Samples.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2018
- Demulsification of Emulsion Using Heptanoic Acid during Aqueous Enzymatic Extraction and the Characterization of Peanut Oil and Proteins Extracted.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
- Ganoderic acid A alleviate psoriasis by inhibiting GSDMD-mediated pyroptosis.Tissue & cell · 2025
- Ligand recognition by peptidoglycan recognition protein-S (PGRP-S): structure of the complex of camel PGRP-S with heptanoic acid at 2.15 Å resolution.International journal of biochemistry and molecular biology · 2022
- On the interaction of 2-amino-7-phosphono-heptanoic acid and quinolinic acid in mice.European journal of pharmacology · 1983
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- carbon
- Mass
- 130.099
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- found in taxon
- Chrozophora plicata
- canonical SMILES
- CCCCCCC(=O)O
- chemical formula
- C₇H₁₄O₂
- Commons category
- Heptanoic acid
- melting point
- -7.5
- boiling point
- 222.25
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