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Docosanoic Acid

C22H44O2, 340.592 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

Organic — carboxylic acid7 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
C₂₂H₄₄O₂
Molecular weight
340.592 g/mol
Exact mass
340.334131 g/mol
SMILES
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC(=O)O
InChI
InChI=1S/C22H44O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22(23)24/h2-21H2,1H3,(H,23,24)
InChIKey
UKMSUNONTOPOIO-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
306 °C at 60 mm Hgmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 169
Melting Point
79.95 °Cmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 169
81 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility
0.102 g are sol in 100 g of 90% ethanol at 17 °C;0.218 g are sol in 100 ml of 91.5% ethanol at 25 °C; 0.116 g are sol in 100 ml of 86.2% ethanol at 25 °C; 0.011 g are sol in 100 ml of 63.07% ethanol at 25 °C; 0.1922 g are sol in 100 g of ether at 16 °Cmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 169
Slightly soluble in water, ethanol, ethyl ethermeasured · Lide, D.R., G.W.A. Milne (eds.). Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds. Volume I. 3rd ed. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton ,FL. 1994., p. V3: 2534
In water, 160 mg/L, temp not specifiedmeasured · OECD; Environment Directorate. OECD Guideline Test. Screening Information Data Set ... for Docosanoic acid (CAS-No. 112-85-6).13-May-2004. Available from, as of Feb 27, 2008: https://www.oecd.org/findDocument/0,3354,en_2649_34379_1_119666_1_50_1,00.html
1.6e-05 mg/mLmeasured · reference compound database
Density
0.8221 at 100 °C/4 °Cmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 169
Vapor Pressure
0.00000007 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
LogP
9.910measured · The Good Scents Company Information System
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.4270 at 100 °C/Dmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 169

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.

logP
7.8929calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
37.3 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
1calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can donate a hydrogen bond.
H-bond acceptors
1calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
20calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
105.6498 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
0.9545calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.2287calculated · 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
24
Total atoms, hydrogen included
68
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Carboxylic acid

    A carbon double-bonded to oxygen and bonded to an –OH group; acidic.

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 Docosanoic Acid yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it Behenic acid, N-DOCOSANOIC ACID, 1-Docosanoic acid, Hydrofol Acid 560, Hydrofol 2022-55, Glycon B-70, Docosoic acid, Edenor C 22-85R, Hystrene 5522, Hystrene 9022, Glycon B 70, Prifrac 2989.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Docosanoic Acid has a page here yet.

Where these values came from

  • chemistry engine

    structure perception

No matching record was found in the currently indexed sources (reference compound database)..

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.