2(5H)-Furanone
CAS Registry Number®
497-23-4
CAS Name
2(5H)-FuranoneMolecular Formula
C4H4O2Molecular Mass
84.07Cite this Page
2(5H)-Furanone. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=497-23-4 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 497-23-4). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Boiling Point (1)
86.5 °CMelting Point (1)
4.5 °CDensity (2)
1.193 g/cm³ @ Temp: 20 °C
Source(s)
- (1) PhysProp data were obtained from Syracuse Research Corporation of Syracuse, New York (US)
- (2) Rambaud, Rene; Bulletin de la Societe Chimique de France, (1955), 877-85, CAplus
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C4H4O2/c5-4-2-1-3-6-4/h1-2H,3H2
InChIKey
InChIKey=VIHAEDVKXSOUAT-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
O=C1C=CCO1
Canonical SMILES
O=C1OCC=C1
Other Names for this Substance
- 2(5H)-Furanone
- Crotonic acid, 4-hydroxy-, γ-lactone
- γ-Hydroxycrotonic acid lactone
- Isocrotonolactone
- 4-Hydroxy-2-butenoic acid γ-lactone
