2D Structure

3D Structure

Nootkatone


Properties
PID PID00140
Mol. Weight 218.34 g/mol
LogP 3.7
Water solubility 0.000132 mol/L at 20 °C
Hydrogen Bond Donor 0
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor 1
Rotatable Bonds 1
XLogP3-AA 3.9

Nootkatone

Identifiers
Formula C15H22O
PubChem CID 1268142
FEMA 3166
Flavor Profile Grapefruit Odor, Grapefruit, Citrus, Orange, Sweet Peely With A Woody Nuance, Powerful, Sweet, Citrus Odor; Grapefruit, Citrus, Orange And Bitter; Grapefruit
Smiles C=C(C)[C@@H]1CCC2=CC(=O)C[C@@H](C)[C@]2(C)C1
InChl Key WTOYNNBCKUYIKC-JMSVASOKSA-N
InChl InChI=1S/C15H22O/c1-10(2)12-5-6-13-8-14(16)7-11(3)15(13,4)9-12/h8,11-12H,1,5-7,9H2,2-4H3/t11-,12-,15+/m1/s1
CAS Registry Number 4674-50-4, 28834-25-5
IUPAC Systematic Name (4R,4aS,6R)-4,4a-dimethyl-6-prop-1-en-2-yl-3,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydronaphthalen-2-one

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
Sharpleaf GalangalYi Zhi (益智)Fritillariae Thunbergii BulbusWarm, Pungent,StomachView Graph
Chinese Thorowax Equivalent plant: Bupleurum scorzChai Hu(柴胡)Bupleuri RadixMinor cold, Pungent, BitterLiver, Gallbladder, LungView Graph
Threeleaf Chastetree Fruit Equivalent plant: VitexMan Jing Zi (蔓荆子)Viticis FructusMinor cold, Pungent, BitterLiver, Gallbladder, LungView Graph
Nutgrass GalingaleXiang Fu (香附)Cyperi RhizomaNeutral, Pungent, Slightly Sweet, Slightly BitterSpleen, Liver, Three EndView Graph

Pharmacological action

Nootkatone is a natural organic compound and is the most important and expensive aromatic of grapefruit.[1] It is a sesquiterpene and a ketone.



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References

1.Seo E J, Lee D U, Kwak J H, et al. Antiplatelet effects of Cyperus rotundus and its component (+)-nootkatone[J]. Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2011, 135(1): 48-54.

2.He B, Xu F, Xiao F, et al. Neuroprotective effects of nootkatone from Alpiniae oxyphyllae Fructus against amyloid--induced cognitive impairment[J]. Metabolic brain disease, 2018, 33(1): 251-259.

3.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootkatone