2D Structure

3D Structure

3-Carene


Properties
PID PID00034
Mol. Weight 136.238 g/mol
LogP 4.38
Water solubility 0.0011 mol/L at 20 °C
Hydrogen Bond Donor 0
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor 0
Rotatable Bonds 0
XLogP3-AA 2.8

3-Carene

Identifiers
Formula C10H16
PubChem CID 26049
FEMA 3821
Flavor Profile None
Smiles CC1=CCC2C(C1)C2(C)C
InChl Key BQOFWKZOCNGFEC-UHFFFAOYSA-N
InChl InChI=1S/C10H16/c1-7-4-5-8-9(6-7)10(8,2)3/h4,8-9H,5-6H2,1-3H3
CAS Registry Number 13466-78-9; 74806-04-5
IUPAC Systematic Name 4,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[4.1.0]hept-3-ene

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/)


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Wilson CitronXiang Yuan(香橼)Citri FructusWarm, Pungent, Sour, Slightly BitterLung, Spleen, LiverView Graph

Pharmacological action

3-Carene is a bicyclic monoterpene consisting of fused cyclohexene and cyclopropane rings. It occurs as a constituent of turpentine.



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References

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12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Carene