decane





Description


Decane is an organic solvent commonly used as an overlay in microbial fermentations to capture volatile hydrophobic compounds, such as sesquiterpene hydrocarbons (e.g., valerenadiene), by promoting their partitioning from the aqueous culture medium, thereby facilitating extraction and analysis [346].


Chemical Formula:
C10H22
Molecular Weight:
142.28 Daltons
Monoisotopic Mass:
142.1721507062 Daltons
SMILES:
CCCCCCCCCC
InChI:
1S/C10H22/c1-3-5-7-9-10-8-6-4-2/h3-10H2,1-2H3

Synonyms
  • n-decane

Databases
MetaCyc:  CPD-9287
ChEBI:  41808
ChemSpider:  14840
DRUGBANK:  DB02826
HMDB:  HMDB31450
MetaNetX:  MNXM724551
PubChem (CID):  15600
Seed:  cpd25628