3-Oxopentanoic acid
CAS Registry Number®
10191-25-0
CAS Name
3-Oxopentanoic acidMolecular Formula
C5H8O3Molecular Mass
116.12Cite this Page
3-Oxopentanoic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=10191-25-0 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 10191-25-0). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Melting Point (1)
65-66 °C (decomp)
Source(s)
- (1) Denotes property values from the ZIC/VINITI data file provided by InfoChem.
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C5H8O3/c1-2-4(6)3-5(7)8/h2-3H2,1H3,(H,7,8)
InChIKey
InChIKey=FHSUFDYFOHSYHI-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C(CC(O)=O)(CC)=O
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)CC(=O)CC
Other Names for this Substance
- Pentanoic acid, 3-oxo-
- Valeric acid, 3-oxo-
- 3-Oxopentanoic acid
- 3-Oxo-n-valeric acid
- 3-Oxovaleric acid
