2D Structure

3D Structure

2-Octanone


Properties
PID PID00101
Mol. Weight 128.215 g/mol
LogP 2.59
Water solubility 0.899 mg/mL at 20 °C
Hydrogen Bond Donor 0
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor 1
Rotatable Bonds 5
XLogP3 2.4

2-Octanone

Identifiers
Formula C8H16O
PubChem CID 8093
FEMA 2802
Flavor Profile Fat, Fragrant, Mold; Fatty, Green Cheese Aroma, Floral, Bitter, Fruity (Unripe Apple), Pleasant; Camphor Taste, Cheese, Bitter
Smiles CCCCCCC(C)=O
InChl Key ZPVFWPFBNIEHGJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
InChl InChI=1S/C8H16O/c1-3-4-5-6-7-8(2)9/h3-7H2,1-2H3
CAS Registry Number 111-13-7
IUPAC Systematic Name octan-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
Chinese Thorowax Equivalent plant: Bupleurum scorzChai Hu(柴胡)Bupleuri RadixMinor cold, Pungent, BitterLiver, Gallbladder, LungView Graph
Divaricate SaposhnikoviaFang Feng (防风)Saposhnikoviae RadixWarm, Pungent, SweetLung, Bladder, HeartView Graph

Pharmacological action

2-octanone is a kind of natural ketone found in many sources such as coco, baked peanuts, potato, cheese, beer, banana and oranges. It can be used as a flavor and fragrance ingredient. It is used in the field of fiber, medicine, pesticides and spices for the synthesis of fiber oil, defoamer and the preparation of surfactants, coal flotation agent.

Colorless liquid; pleasant odor; cam-phor taste. Insoluble in water; solublein alcohol, hydrocarbons, ether, esters, etc. Com-bustible.Perfumes, high-boiling solvent, especially for epoxy resin coatings, leather finishes, flavor-ing, odorant, antiblushing agent for nitrocelluloselacquers.



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. Schlief M L, Wilson R I. Olfactory processing and behavior downstream from highly selective receptor neurons[J]. Nature neuroscience, 2007, 10(5): 623.

2. Zuo, H., Zhang, Q., Su, S., Chen, Q., Yang, F., & Hu, Y A network pharmacology-based approach to analyse potential targets of traditional herbal formulas: An example of Yu Ping Feng decoction[J]. Scientific reports, 2018, 8(1): 11418.

3. BANGS W E, Reineccius G A. Influence of dryer infeed matrices on the retention of volatile flavor compounds during spray drying[J]. Journal of food science, 1982, 47(1): 254-259.

4. Tan G H, Abdulra'uf L B. Recent developments and applications of microextraction techniques for the analysis of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables[M]//Pesticides-Recent Trends in Pesticide Residue Assay. IntechOpen, 2012.