2D Structure

3D Structure

Ocimene


Properties
PID PID00054
Mol. Weight 136.238 g/mol
LogP 3.48
Water solubility 0.00123 mol/L at 20 °C
Hydrogen Bond Donor 0
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor 0
Rotatable Bonds 3
XLogP3 4.3

Ocimene

Identifiers
Formula C10H16
PubChem CID 18756
FEMA 3539
Flavor Profile None
Smiles C=CC(C)=CCC=C(C)C
InChl Key IHPKGUQCSIINRJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
InChl InChI=1S/C10H16/c1-5-10(4)8-6-7-9(2)3/h5,7-8H,1,6H2,2-4H3
CAS Registry Number 13877-91-3
IUPAC Systematic Name 3,7-dimethylocta-1,3,6-triene

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
Clove TreeDing Xiang (丁香)Caryophylli FlosWarm,PungentSpleen, Stomach, Kidney, LungView Graph
Fructus GalangaeHong Dou Kou(红豆蔻 )Galanga Galangal FruitWarm,PungentSpleen, Stomach, Kidney, LungView Graph
Apple MintYu Xian Cao(鱼腥草)Houttuyniae HerbaCold, PungentLungView Graph
Wilson CitronXiang Yuan(香橼)Citri FructusWarm, Pungent, Sour, Slightly BitterLung, Spleen, LiverView Graph

Pharmacological action

Ocimenes are a group of isomeric hydrocarbons. The ocimenes are monoterpenes found within a variety of plants and fruits. α-farnesene and ocimenes are

common volatile terpenes of HIPVs in tea plants.



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 Navia-Giné W G, Yuan J S, Mauromoustakos A, et al. Medicago truncatula (E)-β-ocimene synthase is induced by insect herbivory with corresponding increases in emission of volatile ocimene[J]. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2009, 47(5): 416-425.

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocimene