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Heptanol

C7H16O, 116.204 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

verified recordOrganic — alcohol9 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
C₇H₁₆O
Molecular weight
116.204 g/mol
Exact mass
116.120115 g/mol
IUPAC name
heptan-1-ol
SMILES
CCCCCCCO
InChI
InChI=1S/C7H16O/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8/h8H,2-7H2,1H3
InChIKey
BBMCTIGTTCKYKF-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
349 °F at 760 mmHg (USCG, 1999)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
175.8 °C at 760 mm Hgmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Melting Point
-29 °F (USCG, 1999)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
-34.6 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Density
0.822 at 68 °F (USCG, 1999) - Less dense than water; will floatmeasured · CAMEO Chemicals
0.8219 at 20 °C/4 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Solubility
Miscible with alcohol, ethermeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
1.0 g/L of water at 18 °C; 2.85 g/L of water at 100 °C; 5.15 g/L of water at 130 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Vapor Pressure
0.21 [mmHg]measured · Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
0.2163 mm Hg at 25 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
LogP
Log Kow = 2.62measured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
2.62measured · Human Metabolome Database (HMDB)
Flash Point
170 °F (USCG, 1999)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
76.6 °Cmeasured · Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
Viscosity
7.4 centapoise at 20 °Cmeasured · Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 4th ed. Volumes 1: New York, NY. John Wiley and Sons, 1991-Present., p. V1 868
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.4249 at 20 degC/Dmeasured · 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: 2973
1.423-1.427measured · 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
116.2 g/molcalculated · reference compound database
Average mass of one molecule, from reference compound database.
Exact mass
116.12011513 Dacalculated · reference compound database
Mass of the most common isotopic form.
XLogP3
2.7calculated · reference compound database
Estimated oil/water partition, computed by reference compound database.
Polar surface area
20.2 Ųcalculated · reference compound database
Polar surface area as computed by reference compound database.
Complexity
35calculated · reference compound database
A rough measure of how intricate the structure is.
H-bond donors
1calculated · reference compound database
H-bond acceptors
1calculated · reference compound database
logP
1.9491calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
20.23 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
5calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
35.8448 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
1calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.5442calculated · 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
24
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Alcohol

    An –OH group on a saturated carbon.

Matched by structural pattern, not by a measurement.

The molecule in three dimensions

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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 Heptanol yet.

Other names for it

The systematic name on this record is heptan-1-ol.

The sources also call it 1-HEPTANOL, Heptan-1-ol, Heptyl alcohol, n-Heptanol, Enanthic alcohol, Hydroxy heptane, Hydroxyheptane, Hexyl carbinol, C7 alcohol, Pri-n-heptyl alcohol, Heptyl alcohol, primary.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Heptanol 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.