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Butyl hexanoate

626-82-4C10H20O2172.268 g/mol

A hexanoate ester obtained by the formal condensation of the carboxy group of hexanoic acid (caproic acid) with butan-1-ol. It is a volatile compound found in apples and peaches. — ChEBI

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Identity & molecular properties

Source-linked values
CAS number626-82-4ChEBI ↗
Molecular formulaC10H20O2ChEBI ↗
Molar mass172.268 g/molChEBI ↗
Monoisotopic mass172.14633 DaChEBI ↗
Formal charge0ChEBI ↗
ChEBI identifierCHEBI:89561ChEBI ↗

Cross-source molecular data

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Molar mass172.26 g/molPubChem ↗
Exact mass172.146329876 DaPubChem ↗
Computed XLogP3.3PubChem ↗
Topological polar surface area (Ų)26.3PubChem ↗
H-bond donors0PubChem ↗
H-bond acceptors2PubChem ↗
Rotatable bonds8PubChem ↗

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Names & structural identifiers

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butyl hexanoate
butyl hexanoate
RPRPDTXKGSIXMD-UHFFFAOYSA-N
CCCCCC(=O)OCCCC
InChI=1S/C10H20O2/c1-3-5-7-8-10(11)12-9-6-4-2/h3-9H2,1-2H3

Classification & relationships

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Roles recorded in ChEBI

insect attractantflavouring agentplant metabolitehuman metabolite

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Mass ↔ amount of substance

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Equivalent amount
0.00580491 mol

Uses 172.268 g/mol from ChEBI. Assumes the substance described by this record; no purity or concentration correction is applied.

Elemental composition

Theoretical mass fractions
C
Carbon · 10 atoms
69.72%
O
Oxygen · 2 atoms
18.57%
H
Hydrogen · 20 atoms
11.70%

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Volatile organic compounds from feces and their potential for diagnosis of gastrointestinal disease. ↗FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2007 Jun · PMID 17314143

Sources & record history

Checked 27 Sep 2026
EMBL-EBI ChEBI · CHEBI:89561

Release 255, 9 September 2026. ChEBI three-star (manually annotated) source entry. View original record ↗ · CC BY 4.0

NCBI PubChem · CID 12294 · retrieved 2026-09-27

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