
1-Butanol
Butan-1-ol is a primary alcohol that is butane in which a hydrogen of one of the methyl groups is substituted by a hydroxy group. It it produced in small amounts in humans by the gut microbes. It has a role as a protic solvent, a mouse metabolite and a human metabolite. It is a primary alcohol, a short-chain primary fatty alcohol and an alkyl alcohol. — ChEBI
- IUPAC name
- butan-1-ol
- Molecular formula
- C4H10O
- Molecular weight
- 74.12 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 74.073164938 Da
- XLogP3
- 0.9
- Topological polar surface area
- 20.2 Ų
- Hydrogen-bond donors
- 1
- Hydrogen-bond acceptors
- 1
- Covalent units
- 1
- Defined stereocentres
- 0
Also known as
16 more reported names
External database identifiers
- ChEBI:CHEBI:28885
- ChEMBL:CHEMBL14245
- EPA DTXSID:DTXSID1021740
- PubMed:33542403
- PubMed:29432896
- PubMed:27894855
- PubMed:25906839
- PubMed:23124571
- PubMed:23103531
- PubMed:23095898
- PubMed:23093384
- PubMed:23085667
- PubMed:23082080
- PubMed:23074897
- PubMed:23071957
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