2D Structure

3D Structure

2-Methyl-2-Pentenal


Properties
PID PID00162
Mol. Weight 98.145 g/mol
LogP None
Water solubility 0.0851 mol/L at 20 °C
Hydrogen Bond Donor 0
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor 1
Rotatable Bonds 2
XLogP3 1.4

2-Methyl-2-Pentenal

Identifiers
Formula C6H10O
PubChem CID 5319754
FEMA 3194
Flavor Profile Fruit
Smiles CCC=C(C)C=O
InChl Key IDEYZABHVQLHAF-GQCTYLIASA-N
InChl InChI=1S/C6H10O/c1-3-4-6(2)5-7/h4-5H,3H2,1-2H3/b6-4+
CAS Registry Number 623-36-9, 14250-96-5
IUPAC Systematic Name (E)-2-methylpent-2-enal

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
Evodia rutaecarpaWu Zhu Yu(吴茱萸)Medicinal Evodia Equivalent plant: Evodia rutaecarPungent, bitter, hotLiver, spleen,stomachView Graph
Allium macrostemonXie Bai(薤白)Longstamen Onion Equivalent plant: Allium chinenseWarm,Pungent,BitterLung,Spleen,LiverView Graph

Pharmacological action

2-methyl-2-pentenaldehyde is an important intermediate in the synthesis of strawberry acid (2-methyl-2-pentenoic acid), and 2-methyl-2-pentenoic acid is a kind of edible spice with sweet berry-like fruit aroma and fragrance, and it has the characteristics of strawberry fragrance, so it can be used in all kinds of food that need strawberry flavor.



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.

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