Palmitic acid
CAS Registry Number®
57-10-3
CAS Name
Palmitic acidMolecular Formula
C16H32O2Molecular Mass
256.42Cite this Page
Palmitic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/ChemicalDetail.aspx?ref=57-10-3 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 57-10-3). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Boiling Point (1)
351.5 °CMelting Point (1)
61.8 °CDensity (1)
0.8527 g/cm³ @ Temp: 62 °C
Source(s)
- (1) Hazardous Substances Data Bank data were obtained from the National Library of Medicine (US)
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C16H32O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16(17)18/h2-15H2,1H3,(H,17,18)
InChIKey
InChIKey=IPCSVZSSVZVIGE-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C(CCCCCCCCCC)CCCCC(O)=O
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
Other Names for this Substance
- Hexadecanoic acid
- Palmitic acid
- n-Hexadecoic acid
- 1-Pentadecanecarboxylic acid
- Pentadecanecarboxylic acid
Deleted or Replaced CAS Registry Numbers
116860-99-2, 60605-23-4, 66321-94-6, 212625-86-0