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cetyl alcohol

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cetyl alcohol

Summary

cetyl alcohol is a type of chemical entity[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of type_of_chemical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (183 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • cetyl alcohol's instance of is recorded as type of chemical entity[3].
  • cetyl alcohol's chemical structure is recorded as Hexadecan-1-ol Skelett.svg[4].
  • cetyl alcohol's CAS Registry Number is recorded as 36653-82-4[5].
  • cetyl alcohol's EC number is recorded as 253-149-0[6].
  • cetyl alcohol's canonical SMILES is recorded as CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCO[7].
  • cetyl alcohol's InChI is recorded as InChI=1S/C16H34O/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17/h17H,2-16H2,1H3[8].
  • cetyl alcohol's InChIKey is recorded as BXWNKGSJHAJOGX-UHFFFAOYSA-N[9].
  • cetyl alcohol's chemical formula is recorded as C₁₆H₃₄O[10].
  • cetyl alcohol's subclass of is recorded as fatty alcohol[11].
  • cetyl alcohol's subclass of is recorded as primary alcohol[12].
  • cetyl alcohol's part of is recorded as hexadecanol dehydrogenase activity[13].
  • cetyl alcohol's Commons category is recorded as Cetyl alcohol[14].
  • cetyl alcohol's has part is recorded as oxygen[15].
  • cetyl alcohol's has part is recorded as carbon[16].
  • cetyl alcohol's ChEMBL ID is recorded as CHEMBL706[17].
  • cetyl alcohol's PDB structure ID is recorded as 4RC7[18].
  • cetyl alcohol's PDB structure ID is recorded as 2UUU[19].
  • cetyl alcohol's PDB structure ID is recorded as 2UUV[20].
  • cetyl alcohol's PDB structure ID is recorded as 4RC5[21].
  • cetyl alcohol's PDB structure ID is recorded as 4QUW[22].
  • cetyl alcohol's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0790p8[23].
  • cetyl alcohol's UNII is recorded as 936JST6JCN[24].
  • cetyl alcohol's RTECS number is recorded as MM0225000[25].
  • cetyl alcohol's ChemSpider ID is recorded as 2581[26].
  • cetyl alcohol's PubChem CID is recorded as 2682[27].

Why It Matters

cetyl alcohol ranks in the top 5% of type_of_chemical_entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (183 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Global Substance Registration System. Retrieved . commonchemistry.cas.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Global Substance Registration System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . ChEMBL. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Protein Data Bank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Protein Data Bank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Protein Data Bank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Protein Data Bank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Protein Data Bank. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Global Substance Registration System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Q2311683. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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