(S)-2-Hydroxybutyric acid
Properties
- Molecular formula
- C4H8O3
- Molar mass
- 104.10 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 104.0473 Da
- Melting point
- 40–42 °C
- logP
- -0.16Crippen estimate
- Polar surface area
- 57.5 Ų
- H-bond donors / acceptors
- 2 / 2
- Rotatable bonds
- 2
- Stereocentres
- Sin SMILES atom order
Hazards
Danger
- H315 Causes skin irritation100% of notifiers
- H318 Causes serious eye damage100% of notifiers
- H335 May cause respiratory irritation100% of notifiers
Aggregated from 40 ECHA notifications, via PubChem; a share says how many notifiers assign that statement.
Precautionary statements
P261, P264, P264+P265, P271, P280, P302+P352, P304+P340, P305+P354+P338, P317, P319, P321, P332+P317, P362+P364, P403+P233, P405, P501
Identifiers
CAS number
3347-90-8SMILES
CC[C@H](O)C(=O)OInChIKey
AFENDNXGAFYKQO-VKHMYHEASA-NInChI
InChI=1S/C4H8O3/c1-2-3(5)4(6)7/h3,5H,2H2,1H3,(H,6,7)/t3-/m0/s1Weigh it out
Type any one amount. The others follow from the molar mass.
Names and synonyms
11 names
- Butanoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, (2S)-
- Butanoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, (S)-
- (2S)-2-Hydroxybutanoic acid
- L-2-Hydroxybutyric acid
- (+)-2-Hydroxybutyric acid
- (+)-2-Hydroxy-n-butyric acid
- (+)-2-Hydroxybutanoic acid
- L-α-Hydroxybutyric acid
- (+)-α-Hydroxybutyric acid
- (S)-2-Hydroxybutanoic acid
- (S)-(+)-2-Hydroxybutanoic acid
Work with (S)-2-Hydroxybutyric acid
Stereoisomers, salts and isotopologues
The same compound in another form: other stereochemistry, a salt or hydrate, the free acid or base, or an isotope-labelled version.
Similar compounds
Ethylmalonic acid601-75-258 % similar
2-Ethylbutanoic acid88-09-558 % similar
L-Leucic acid13748-90-856 % similar
2-Hydroxyisocaproic acid498-36-256 % similar
2-Methylbutanoic acid116-53-054 % similar
(+)-2-Methylbutanoic acid1730-91-254 % similar
Isoserine565-71-954 % similar
2-Methylbutanoic acid600-07-754 % similar
Tanimoto similarity of circular fingerprints over the whole catalogue.