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CAS Registry Number®
87-69-4
CAS Name
(+)-Tartaric acidMolecular Formula
C4H6O6Molecular Mass
150.09Cite this Page
(+)-Tartaric acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=87-69-4 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 87-69-4). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Melting Point (1)
169 °CDensity (2)
1.737 g/cm³
Source(s)
- (1) PhysProp data were obtained from Syracuse Research Corporation of Syracuse, New York (US)
- (2) Longchambon, Louis; Compt. rend., (1926), 182, 473-4, CAplus
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C4H6O6/c5-1(3(7)8)2(6)4(9)10/h1-2,5-6H,(H,7,8)(H,9,10)/t1-,2-/m1/s1
InChIKey
InChIKey=FEWJPZIEWOKRBE-JCYAYHJZSA-N
SMILES
[C@@H]([C@H](C(O)=O)O)(C(O)=O)O
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)C(O)C(O)C(=O)O
Other Names for this Substance
- Butanedioic acid, 2,3-dihydroxy- (2R,3R)-
- Tartaric acid, L-(+)-
- Butanedioic acid, 2,3-dihydroxy- [R-(R*,R*)]-
- (2R,3R)-2,3-Dihydroxybutanedioic acid
- Dextrotartaric acid
Deleted or Replaced CAS Registry Numbers
1336-18-1, 8014-54-8, 8059-77-6, 1039646-76-8, 1334703-49-9, 1488329-53-8, 2088032-42-0, 2411406-12-5
