Hexanoic acid

• Hexanoic
• Penta carboxylic acid
• Goat acid (deprecated)

Oily, colorless or faint yellow liquid with a pungent smell of goat schweißartigem

Liquid

0.93 g · cm -3 ( 20 ° C)

4 ° C

206 ° C

30 Pa ( 20 ° C)

4.85 (25 ° C)

• Poorly in water ( 0.891 g in 100 ml at 15 ° C)
• Soluble in ethanol and diethyl ether

Risk

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Caproic (n- hexanoic acid ), C5H11COOH is a saturated fat or carboxylic acid derived from the n-hexane. The name is derived as in the caprylic acid and capric acid from Latin capra goat for what "Goat acid" refers to the characteristic odor of the acid as well as the historical common name.

It is a colorless at room temperature, oily, foul-smelling fluid. She is bound chemically to 2-3 percent in triglycerides of milk fat in the milk before. Caproic acid is used, as many other carboxylic acids for the synthesis of fruit flavors by esterification. Its salts and esters hot Capronate or hexanoates. In the nomenclature of fatty acids it has the name 6-0.