Retinoic acid
CAS Registry Number®
302-79-4
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CAS Name
Retinoic acidMolecular Formula
C20H28O2Molecular Mass
300.44Cite this Page
Retinoic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/ChemicalDetail.aspx?ref=302-79-4 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 302-79-4). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Melting Point (1)
180-182 °C
Source(s)
- (1) Hazardous Substances Data Bank data were obtained from the National Library of Medicine (US)
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C20H28O2/c1-15(8-6-9-16(2)14-19(21)22)11-12-18-17(3)10-7-13-20(18,4)5/h6,8-9,11-12,14H,7,10,13H2,1-5H3,(H,21,22)/b9-6+,12-11+,15-8+,16-14+
InChIKey
InChIKey=SHGAZHPCJJPHSC-YCNIQYBTSA-N
SMILES
C(=C/C(=C/C=C/C(=C/C(O)=O)/C)/C)\C=1C(C)(C)CCCC1C
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)C=C(C=CC=C(C=CC1=C(C)CCCC1(C)C)C)C
Other Names for this Substance
- Retinoic acid
- Retinoic acid, all-trans-
- Vitamin A acid
- Tretinoin
- trans-Retinoic acid
Deleted or Replaced CAS Registry Numbers
7005-78-9, 56573-65-0, 187175-63-9
