2-Oxovaleric acid
CAS Registry Number®
1821-02-9
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CAS Name
2-Oxovaleric acidMolecular Formula
C5H8O3Molecular Mass
116.12Cite this Page
2-Oxovaleric acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/ChemicalDetail.aspx?ref=1821-02-9 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 1821-02-9). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Boiling Point (1)
179 °CMelting Point (1)
6.5 °CDensity (2)
1.097 g/cm³ @ Temp: 14 °C
Source(s)
- (1) PhysProp data were obtained from Syracuse Research Corporation of Syracuse, New York (US)
- (2) Cuvigny, Therese; Compt. rend., (1955), 240, 206-8, CAplus
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C5H8O3/c1-2-3-4(6)5(7)8/h2-3H2,1H3,(H,7,8)
InChIKey
InChIKey=KDVFRMMRZOCFLS-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C(CCC)(C(O)=O)=O
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)C(=O)CCC
Other Names for this Substance
- Pentanoic acid, 2-oxo-
- Valeric acid, 2-oxo-
- 2-Oxopentanoic acid
- α-Oxovaleric acid
- α-Oxo-n-valeric acid
