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2-Methylcyclohexanone

C7H12O, 112.172 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

verified recordOrganic — ketone7 measured properties

Drawn from the SMILES. It shows how the atoms are connected — not a photograph of a molecule, and not its shape in space.

Identifiers

Molecular formula
C₇H₁₂O
Molecular weight
112.172 g/mol
Exact mass
112.088815 g/mol
IUPAC name
2-methylcyclohexan-1-one
SMILES
CC1CCCCC1=O
InChI
InChI=1S/C7H12O/c1-6-4-2-3-5-7(6)8/h6H,2-5H2,1H3
InChIKey
LFSAPCRASZRSKS-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Both are open without an account.

Measured properties

Values somebody obtained from a sample and published. Where two sources report the same property they are both shown, in the units each used — a disagreement between them is information, and averaging it away would be inventing a number neither one gave.

Boiling Point
329 °F at 760 mmHg (USCG, 1999)measured · U.S. Coast Guard. 1999. Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) - Hazardous Chemical Data. Commandant Instruction 16465.12C. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
165.1 °Cmeasured · Sax, N.I. Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 6th ed. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984., p. 1832
162-163 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
329 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
165.1 °C @760 [mm Hg]measured · reference compound database
325 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
Melting Point
-6.8 °F (USCG, 1999)measured · U.S. Coast Guard. 1999. Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) - Hazardous Chemical Data. Commandant Instruction 16465.12C. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
-14 °Cmeasured · Sax, N.I. Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 6th ed. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984., p. 1832
6.8 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
-14 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
7 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
Flash Point
118 °F (USCG, 1999)measured · U.S. Coast Guard. 1999. Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) - Hazardous Chemical Data. Commandant Instruction 16465.12C. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
118 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
118 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
118 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility
Insoluble (NIOSH, 2024)measured · reference compound database
Insol in water; sol in alcohol and ethermeasured · Sax, N.I. Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 6th ed. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984., p. 1832
insoluble in water; soluble in ethermeasured · reference compound database
Miscible at room temperature (in ethanol)measured · reference compound database
Insolublemeasured · reference compound database
Density
0.93 (USCG, 1999) - Less dense than water; will floatmeasured · U.S. Coast Guard. 1999. Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) - Hazardous Chemical Data. Commandant Instruction 16465.12C. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
0.925 at 20 °C/4 °Cmeasured · Sax, N.I. Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 6th ed. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984., p. 1832
0.924-0.926measured · reference compound database
0.93measured · reference compound database
0.92 @25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
0.93measured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
1 mmHg (NIOSH, 2024)measured · reference compound database
2.25 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
1 mmHgmeasured · reference compound database
1 mmHgmeasured · reference compound database
Refractive Index
1.444-1.450measured · reference compound database

Calculated properties

Derived from the structure rather than from a sample. These are reproducible and they are not measurements: a calculated partition coefficient and a measured one can differ by a long way, and where both exist they are listed apart on purpose.

Molecular weight
112.17 g/molcalculated · reference compound database
Average mass of one molecule, from reference compound database.
Exact mass
112.088815002 Dacalculated · reference compound database
Mass of the most common isotopic form.
XLogP3
1.5calculated · reference compound database
Estimated oil/water partition, computed by reference compound database.
Polar surface area
17.1 Ųcalculated · reference compound database
Polar surface area as computed by reference compound database.
Complexity
96calculated · reference compound database
A rough measure of how intricate the structure is.
H-bond donors
0calculated · reference compound database
H-bond acceptors
1calculated · reference compound database
logP
1.7656calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
17.07 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
0calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can donate a hydrogen bond.
H-bond acceptors
1calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
0calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
32.639 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
0.8571calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.4664calculated · chemistry engine
Quantitative estimate of drug-likeness (0–1).

What it is made of

Elements

Percentages are of the molecular weight above, worked out the same way the molar mass calculator does it.

Structure

Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
8
Total atoms, hydrogen included
20
Rings
1
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
1
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Ketone

    A carbonyl bonded to two carbons.

Matched by structural pattern, not by a measurement.

The molecule in three dimensions

Rotate and inspect the atoms. Loaded only when you ask, so the page stays light.

The drawing above is a diagram of what is bonded to what. A molecule is not flat, and the model here is one low-energy shape generated from the connectivity — useful for seeing which groups can reach each other, and not a measured structure. A real sample is a population of conformations, interconverting.

Reactions it appears in

No documented reaction with a written procedure and a source involves 2-Methylcyclohexanone yet.

Other names for it

The systematic name on this record is 2-methylcyclohexan-1-one.

The sources also call it 2-methylcyclohexan-1-one, o-Methylcyclohexanone, 2-Methyl-1-cyclohexanone, Cyclohexanone, 2-methyl-, 2-Metilcicloesanone, alpha-Methylcyclohexanone, Methylanon, Sexton B, 2-Methyl-cyclohexanon, METHYL ANONE, NSC-524.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to 2-Methylcyclohexanone has a page here yet.

Where these values came from

compound record.

What this page does not claim

The identifiers are what the source record holds, copied rather than recomputed. Measured values are reported as their source gave them, units and all; calculated values are marked as calculated and are not measurements. Where a field is absent the page says so, because a blank cell reads as a zero and a guessed value reads as a fact.

Nothing here is a hazard assessment, a purity statement or advice about handling a sample. A flash point quoted from a safety database is a number somebody published, not a judgement by us about whether this molecule is safe for what you intend.