Octanol

From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.

Octanol is a higher alcohol with eight carbon atoms and a general formula of C₈H₁₈O.

    H   H   H   H   H   H   H   H
    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
H - C - C - C - C - C - C - C - C - OH
    |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
    H   H   H   H   H   H   H   H

Water/Octanol Partitioning

Octanol and water are immiscible. The distribution of a compound between water and octanol is used to calculate the partition coefficient (logP) of that molecule. It has been shown that water/octanol partitioning is a good approximation of the partitioning between the cytosol and lipid membranes of living systems.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) Octanol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octanol) version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Octanol&action=history) GNU Free Documentation Lizenz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License) CC-by-sa (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/)

---