2D Structure

3D Structure

3-Octanol


Properties
PID PID00103
Mol. Weight 130.231 g/mol
LogP 2.84
Water solubility 0.0123 mol/L at 20 °C
Hydrogen Bond Donor 1
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor 1
Rotatable Bonds 5
XLogP3 2.8

3-Octanol

Identifiers
Formula C8H18O
PubChem CID 11527
FEMA 3581
Flavor Profile Citrus, Moss, Mushroom, Nut, Oil
Smiles CCCCCC(O)CC
InChl Key NMRPBPVERJPACX-UHFFFAOYSA-N
InChl InChI=1S/C8H18O/c1-3-5-6-7-8(9)4-2/h8-9H,3-7H2,1-2H3
CAS Registry Number 589-98-0, 29063-28-3, 20296-29-1,22658-92-0
IUPAC Systematic Name octan-3-ol

Organ Location Map/System Distribution of Pungent Flavor Compounds’ Targets


Note: Known Targets (Gene) from 6952 literatures, DrugBank (http://www.drugbank.ca/), STITCH (http://stitch.embl.de/), ChEMBL (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/), Therapeutic Target Database (http://bidd.nus.edu.sg/group/ttd/), and Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD, http://ctdbase.org/)


Related Pungent TCM

English Name Pinyin Name (Chinese Name) Latin Name Properties in TCM merdians View Graph
Divaricate SaposhnikoviaFang Feng (防风)Saposhnikoviae RadixWarm, Pungent, SweetLung, Bladder, HeartView Graph
Fineleaf SchizonepetaJing Jie (荆芥)Schizonepetae HerbaMinor Warm, PungentLung, LiverView Graph
Haichow ElsholtziaXiang Ru (香薷)Moslae HerbaMinor Warm,PungentLung, Spleen, StomachView Graph
Wild MintBo He (薄荷)Menthae Haplocalycis HerbaCool, PungentLiver, LungView Graph

Pharmacological action

3-Octanol is one of alcohols with the formula C8H17OH, usually used as odorant.



Note: Click anywhere in the blank, you can drag the whole dynamic diagram. Click on a node, you can drag his location to see it more clearly. The blue circle represents pharmacology, toxicology, or daily use. Orange hexagon represents the pungent compounds.

References

1.Suzuki-Sawano, E., Ueno, K., Naganos, S., Sawano, Y., Horiuchi, J., & Saitoe, M. A Drosophila ex vivo model of olfactory appetitive learning[J]. Scientific reports, 2017, 7(1): 17725.

2.Martin-Peña A, Rincon-Limas D E, Fernandez-Funez P. Anti-Aβ single-chain variable fragment antibodies restore memory acquisition in a Drosophila model of Alzheimer’s disease[J]. Scientific reports, 2017, 7(1): 11268.

3.Xiao, D. R., Liu, R. S., He, L., Li, H. M., Tang, Y. L., Liang, X. H., Tang, Y. J. Aroma improvement by repeated freeze-thaw treatment during Tuber melanosporum fermentation[J]. Scientific reports, 2015, 5: 17120.

4.Byers D, Davis R L, Kiger J A. Defect in cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase due to the dunce mutation of learning in Drosophila melanogaster[J]. Nature, 1981, 289(5793): 79.

5.Thoma, V., Knapek, S., Arai, S., Hartl, M., Kohsaka, H., Sirigrivatanawong, P., Tanimoto, H. Functional dissociation in sweet taste receptor neurons between and within taste organs of Drosophila[J]. Nature communications, 2016, 7: 10678.

6.Ueno, T., Tomita, J., Tanimoto, H., Endo, K., Ito, K., Kume, S., & Kume, K.Identification of a dopamine pathway that regulates sleep and arousal in Drosophila[J]. Nature neuroscience, 2012, 15(11): 1516.

7.Burke, C. J., Huetteroth, W., Owald, D., Perisse, E., Krashes, M. J., Das, G., Waddell, S. Layered reward signalling through octopamine and dopamine in Drosophila[J]. Nature, 2012, 492(7429): 433.

8.Drier, E. A., Tello, M. K., Cowan, M., Wu, P., Blace, N., Sacktor, T. C., & Yin, J. C. Memory enhancement and formation by atypical PKM activity in Drosophila melanogaster[J]. Nature neuroscience, 2002, 5(4): 316.

9.Quinn W G, Dudai Y. Memory phases in Drosophila[J]. Nature, 1976, 262(5569): 576.

10.Zhang, Y., Liu, G., Yan, J., Zhang, Y., Li, B., & Cai, D. Metabolic learning and memory formation by the brain influence systemic metabolic homeostasis[J]. Nature communications, 2015, 6: 6704.

11.Séjourné, J., Plaçais, P. Y., Aso, Y., Siwanowicz, I., Trannoy, S., Thoma, V., Isabel, G. Mushroom body efferent neurons responsible for aversive olfactory memory retrieval in Drosophila[J]. Nature neuroscience, 2011, 14(7): 903.

12.Mohideen, S. S., Yamasaki, Y., Omata, Y., Tsuda, L., & Yoshiike, Y.Nontoxic singlet oxygen generator as a therapeutic candidate for treating tauopathies[J]. Scientific reports, 2015, 5: 10821.

13.Sam, M., Vora, S., Malnic, B., Ma, W., Novotny, M. V., & Buck, L. B.Neuropharmacology: Odorants may arouse instinctive behaviours[J]. Nature, 2001, 412(6843): 142.

14.Hige, T., Aso, Y., Rubin, G. M., & Turner, G. C. Plasticity-driven individualization of olfactory coding in mushroom body output neurons[J]. Nature, 2015, 526(7572): 258.

15.Hirano, Y., Ihara, K., Masuda, T., Yamamoto, T., Iwata, I., Takahashi, A., Horiuchi, J. Shifting transcriptional machinery is required for long-term memory maintenance and modification in Drosophila mushroom bodies[J]. Nature communications, 2016, 7: 13471.

16.Lin, A. C., Bygrave, A. M., De Calignon, A., Lee, T., & Miesenböck, G. Sparse, decorrelated odor coding in the mushroom body enhances learned odor discrimination[J]. Nature neuroscience, 2014, 17(4): 559.

17.Hasegawa, T., Tomita, J., Hashimoto, R., Ueno, T., Kume, S., & Kume, K.Sweetness induces sleep through gustatory signalling independent of nutritional value in a starved fruit fly[J]. Scientific reports, 2017, 7(1): 14355.

18.Saitoe M, Horiuchi J, Yamazaki D. The Drosophila DC0 Mutation suppresses age-related memory impairment without affecting lifespan[C]//Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan. PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, 2006: 221-221.

19.Liu X, Davis R L. The GABAergic anterior paired lateral neuron suppresses and is suppressed by olfactory learning[J]. Nature neuroscience, 2009, 12(1): 53.

20.Johnson, J. L., Huang, W., Roman, G., & Costa-Mattioli, M. TORC2: a novel target for treating age-associated memory impairment[J]. Scientific reports, 2015, 5: 15193.

21.lacais, P. Y., de Tredern, É., Scheunemann, L., Trannoy, S., Goguel, V., Han, K. A., Preat, T. Upregulated energy metabolism in the Drosophila mushroom body is the trigger for long-term memory[J]. Nature communications, 2017, 8: 15510.

22.Ofstad T A, Zuker C S, Reiser M B. Visual place learning in Drosophila melanogaster[J]. Nature, 2011, 474(7350): 204.