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hexadecanal
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Hexadecanal is an organic compound with the chemical formula C16H32O.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C16H32O
- Molecular weight
- 240.42 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- hexadecanal
- SMILES
- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC=O
- InChIKey
- NIOYUNMRJMEDGI-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 7.1
- Polar surface area
- 17.1 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- fatty aldehyde
- Mass
- 240.245316
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- found in taxon
- Murraya paniculata
- chemical formula
- C₁₆H₃₂O
- canonical SMILES
- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC=O
- Commons category
- Hexadecanal
- subject has role
- primary metabolite
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Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- In biology
- References
Hexadecanal is an organic compound with the chemical formula C16H32O.
== In biology == Hexadecanal is found in human skin, saliva, and feces. It has a calming effect on mice.
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