2D Structure

3D Structure

3-Hexanol


Properties
PID PID00104
Mol. Weight 102.177 g/mol
LogP 1.65
Water solubility 16.1 mg/mL at 25 °C
Hydrogen Bond Donor 1
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor 1
Rotatable Bonds 3
XLogP3 1.7

3-Hexanol

Identifiers
Formula C6H14O
PubChem CID 12178
FEMA 3351
Flavor Profile Solvent, Spice, Wine
Smiles CCCC(O)CC
InChl Key ZOCHHNOQQHDWHG-UHFFFAOYSA-N
InChl InChI=1S/C6H14O/c1-3-5-6(7)4-2/h6-7H,3-5H2,1-2H3
CAS Registry Number 623-37-0
IUPAC Systematic Name hexan-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
SafflowerHong Hua (红花)Carthami FlosWarm,PungentSpleen, Stomach, Kidney, LungView Graph

Pharmacological action

3-Hexanol (IUPAC name: hexan-3-ol; also called ethyl propyl carbinol) is an organic chemical compound. It occurs naturally in the flavor and aroma of plants such as pineapple and is used as a food additive to add flavor.



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