Hexanoic acid
CAS Registry Number®
142-62-1
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CAS Name
Hexanoic acidMolecular Formula
C6H12O2Molecular Mass
116.16Cite this Page
Hexanoic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=142-62-1 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 142-62-1). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Boiling Point (1)
205.8 °CMelting Point (1)
-3.4 °CDensity (1)
0.929 g/cm³ @ Temp: 20 °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/C6H12O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6(7)8/h2-5H2,1H3,(H,7,8)
InChIKey
InChIKey=FUZZWVXGSFPDMH-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C(CCCC)C(O)=O
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)CCCCC
Other Names for this Substance
- Hexanoic acid
- Butylacetic acid
- Caproic acid
- Capronic acid
- n-Hexoic acid
Deleted or Replaced CAS Registry Numbers
53896-26-7
