CAS NUMBER: 124-07-2
EC NUMBER: 204-677-5
MOLECULAR FORMULA: C8H16O2
MOLECULAR WEIGHT: 144.21
IUPAC NAME: octanoic acid
WILFARIN CA-0899 is also known under the systematic name octanoic acid or C8 Acid
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a saturated fatty acid, medium-chain fatty acid (MCFA).
WILFARIN CA-0899 has the structural formula H3C−(CH2)6−COOH
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a colorless oily liquid that is minimally soluble in water with a slightly unpleasant rancid-like smell and taste.
Salts and esters of WILFARIN CA-0899 are known as octanoates or caprylates.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a common industrial chemical, which is produced by oxidation of the C8 aldehyde.
WILFARIN CA-0899's compounds are found naturally in the milk of various mammals and as a minor constituent of coconut oil and palm kernel oil.
Two other acids are named after goats via the Latin word capra: caproic acid (C6) and capric acid (C10).
Together, these three fatty acids comprise 15% of the fatty acids in goat milk fat.
USES:
WILFARIN CA-0899 is used commercially in the production of esters used in perfumery and also in the manufacture of dyes.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is an antimicrobial pesticide used as a food contact surface sanitizer in commercial food handling establishments on dairy equipment, food processing equipment, breweries, wineries, and beverage processing plants.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is also used as disinfectant in health care facilities, schools/colleges, animal care/veterinary facilities, industrial facilities, office buildings, recreational facilities, retail and wholesale establishments, livestock premises, restaurants, and hotels/motels.
In addition, WILFARIN CA-0899 is used as an algicide, bactericide, fungicide, and herbicide in nurseries, greenhouses, garden centers, and interiors, and on ornamentation.
Products containing WILFARIN CA-0899 are formulated as soluble concentrate/liquids and ready-to-use liquids.
WILFARIN CA-0899 plays an important role in the body's regulation of energy input and output, a function which is performed by the hormone ghrelin.
Substituents:
*Medium-chain fatty acid
*Straight chain fatty acid
*Monocarboxylic acid or derivatives
*Carboxylic acid
*Carboxylic acid derivative
*Organic oxygen compound
*Organic oxide
*Hydrocarbon derivative
*Organooxygen compound
*Carbonyl group
*Aliphatic acyclic compound
In order to activate these receptors, ghrelin must undergo a process called acylation in which it acquires an acyl group, and WILFARIN CA-0899 provides this by linking at a specific serine site on ghrelin molecules.
Other fatty acids in the same position have similar effects on hunger
The acyl chloride of WILFARIN CA-0899 is used in the synthesis of perfluorooctanoic acid
Dietary Uses:
WILFARIN CA-0899 is taken as a dietary supplement.
In the body, WILFARIN CA-0899 would be found as octanoate, or unprotonated caprylic acid.
WILFARIN CA-0899 can help in the process of excess calorie burning, and thus weight loss
Medical Uses:
WILFARIN CA-0899 has been studied as part of a ketogenic diet to treat children with intractable epilepsy.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is currently being researched as a treatment for essential tremor
WILFARIN CA-0899 acts as cleansing agents, emulsifying agents and perfuming agents.
WILFARIN CA-0899 comes under fractionated fatty acids’ type and is readily biodegradable.
WILFARIN CA-0899 in cosmetics and personal care products can be used as cleansing agents, emulsifying agents, masking agents, perfuming agents, thickening agent and surfactants.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is the common name for the eight-carbon straight chain fatty acid known by the systematic name octanoic acid.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is found naturally in coconuts and breast milk.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant rancid taste that is minimally soluble in water.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is used commercially in the production of esters used in perfumery and also in the manufacture of dyes
WILFARIN CA-0899 belongs to the class of organic compounds known as medium-chain fatty acids.
These are fatty acids with an aliphatic tail that contains between 4 and 12 carbon atoms.
WILFARIN CA-0899 appears as a colorless to light yellow liquid with a mild odor.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is corrosive to metals and tissue.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a saturated medium-chain fatty acid with an 8-carbon backbone.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is found naturally in the milk of various mammals and is a minor component of coconut oil and palm kernel oil.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a straight-chain saturated fatty acid that is heptane in which one of the hydrogens of a terminal methyl group has been replaced by a carboxy group.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is also known as caprylic acid.
WILFARIN CA-0899 has a role as an antibacterial agent, a human metabolite and an Escherichia coli metabolite.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a straight-chain saturated fatty acid and a medium-chain fatty acid.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a conjugate acid of an octanoate.
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES:
-Molecular Weight: 144.21
-XLogP3: 3
-Exact Mass: 144.115029749
-Monoisotopic Mass: 144.115029749
-Topological Polar Surface Area: 37.3 Ų
-Physical Description: colorless to light yellow liquid with a mild odor
-Color: colorless to light yellow
-Form: liquid
-Odor: Slight odor
-Taste: Slightly sour taste
-Boiling Point: 239 °C
-Melting Point: 16.3 °C
-Flash Point: 270 °F
-Density: 0.91
-Vapor Pressure: 0.00371 mmHg
-Viscosity: 5.74 mPa.sec
-Surface Tension: 23.7 dyn/cm
-Refractive Index: 1.423-1.429
-Chemical Classes: Other Classes -> Organic Acids
WILFARIN CA-0899 has a mildly unpleasant odor and a burning, rancid taste.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is also reported as having a faint, fruity–acid odor and slightly sour taste.
As an eight-carbon compound, WILFARIN CA-0899 is among the fatty acids considered to be of short or medium chain length.
WILFARIN CA-0899, CH3(CH2)6COOH, also known as hexylacetic acid,n-octanoic acid, octylie acid, and octic acid, is a colorless, oily liquid having a mildly unpleasant odor and a burning, rancid taste.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is only slightly soluble in water (68 mg per 100 mL at 20°C).
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a natural component of coconut and palm nut oils and butter fat.
WILFARIN CA-0899 has also been identified in trace amounts in beer, brandy distillate, the essential oil of fermented Russian black tea leaves, and raw soybeans.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is used in manufacturing drugs and dyes.
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES:
-Hydrogen Bond Donor Count: 1
-Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count: 2
-Rotatable Bond Count: 6
-Heavy Atom Count: 10
-Formal Charge: 0
-Complexity: 89.3
-Isotope Atom Count: 0
-Defined Atom Stereocenter Count: 0
-Undefined Atom Stereocenter Count: 0
-Defined Bond Stereocenter Count: 0
-Undefined Bond Stereocenter Count: 0
-Covalently-Bonded Unit Count: 1
-Compound Is Canonicalized: Yes
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a flavoring agent considered to be a short or medium chain fatty acid.
WILFARIN CA-0899 occurs normally in various foods and is commercially prepared by oxidation of n-octanol or by fermentation and fractional distillation of the volatile fatty acids present.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is widely applied in various fields
WILFARIN CA-0899 is an antimicrobial pesticide used as a food contact surface sanitizer in commercial food handling establishments on dairy equipment, food processing equipment, breweries, wineries, and beverage processing plants.
In addition, WILFARIN CA-0899 is used as an algaecide, bactericide, and fungicide in nurseries, greenhouses, garden centers, and interiorscapes on ornamentals.
Products containing WILFARIN CA-0899 are formulated as soluble concentrate/liquids and ready-to-use liquids.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is also used in the treatment of some bacterial infections.
Due to its relatively short chain length WILFARIN CA-0899 has no difficulty in penetrating fatty cell wall membranes, hence its effectiveness in combating certain lipid-coated bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus and various species of Streptococcus.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is used commercially in the production of esters used in perfumery and also in the manufacture of dyes.
Some studies have shown that WILFARIN CA-0899 is effective to excess calorie burning taken as a dietary supplement, resulting in weigh loss.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a saturated fatty acid, medium-chain fatty acid (MCFA).
WILFARIN CA-0899 has the structural formula H3C−(CH2)6−COOH
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a common industrial chemical, which is produced by oxidation of the C8 aldehyde.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is used commercially in the production of esters used in perfumery and also in the manufacture of dyes.
WILFARIN CA-0899 can help in the process of excess calorie burning, and thus weight loss
WILFARIN CA-0899 acts as cleansing agents, emulsifying agents and perfuming agents.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is found naturally in coconuts and breast milk.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is used commercially in the production of esters used in perfumery and also in the manufacture of dyes
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a saturated medium-chain fatty acid with an 8-carbon backbone.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is also known as caprylic acid.
WILFARIN CA-0899 has a role as an antibacterial agent, a human metabolite and an Escherichia coli metabolite.
WILFARIN CA-0899 is a conjugate acid of an octanoate.
SYNONYMS:
WILFARIN CA-0899
1-Heptanecarboxylate
1-Heptanecarboxylic acid
Caprylate
capryloate
Caprylsaeure
Emery 657
Enantic acid
Kaprylsaeure
Kortacid 0899
Lunac 8-95
octanoic acid
caprylic acid
124-07-2
n-octanoic acid
Octylic acid
n-caprylic acid
octoic acid
n-octylic acid
n-Octoic acid
1-heptanecarboxylic acid
neo-fat 8
Enantic acid
Octic acid
C-8 acid
FEMA No. 2799
Kaprylsaeure
Hexacid 898
Acido octanoico
Acide octanoique
1-octanoic acid
Acidum octanocium
Fatty acids, C6-10
Kyselina kaprylova
OCTANOIC ACID (CAPRYLIC ACID)
Kortacid-0899
CHEBI:28837
Emery 657
Prifac 2901
Prifac-2901
Lunac 8-95
Caprylsaeure
n-caprylate
n-octoate
n-octylate
Octanoic acid (USAN)
0ctanoic acid
1-heptanecarboxylate
Caprylic acid (natural)
Acide octanoique
Acido octanoico
Acidum octanocium
Kyselina kaprylova
287111-06-2
CAS-124-07-2
caprylic-acid
n-octanoicacid
octanic acid
AI3-04162
acidum octanoicum
EINECS 273-085-7
Kortacid 0899
Neo-Fat 8S
Caprylic Acid 657
n-heptanecarboxylic acid
Fatty acids, C6-1O
Lunac 8-98
Heptane-1-carboxylic acid
Caprylic/Capric Acid
EC 204-677-5
4-02-00-00982
caprylic acid (octanoic acid)
Octanoic acid (mixed isomers)
Octanoic acid-1,2-[13C2]
Octanoic acid-7,8-[13C2]
Octanoic acid, natural, >=98%, FG
Octanoic acid, for synthesis, 99.5%
CAPRYLIC ACID
Octanoic acid
Caprylic Acid (Octanoic Acid)