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CAS Registry Number®
99-66-1
CAS Name
Valproic acidMolecular Formula
C8H16O2Molecular Mass
144.21Cite this Page
Valproic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=99-66-1 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 99-66-1). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Boiling Point (1)
221-222 °C @ Press: 760.0 TorrMelting Point (2)
25 °CDensity (1)
0.904 g/cm³ @ Temp: 25 °C
Source(s)
- (1) Hazardous Substances Data Bank data were obtained from the National Library of Medicine (US)
- (2) Chu, Katherine A.; International Journal of Pharmaceutics, (2009), 373(1-2), 24-40, CAplus
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C8H16O2/c1-3-5-7(6-4-2)8(9)10/h7H,3-6H2,1-2H3,(H,9,10)
InChIKey
InChIKey=NIJJYAXOARWZEE-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C(CCC)(CCC)C(O)=O
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)C(CCC)CCC
Other Names for this Substance
- Pentanoic acid, 2-propyl-
- Valeric acid, 2-propyl-
- 2-Propylpentanoic acid
- Acetic acid, dipropyl-
- Dipropylacetic acid
