Compound
hexadecanal
No description recorded for this entry yet. Everything this graph holds about hexadecanal is below.
Structure
- Class
- Organic compound
- Formula
- C16H32O
- Mass
- 240.431 g/mol
- Charge
- 0
- InChIKey
- NIOYUNMRJMEDGI-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- SMILES
- [H]C(=O)CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
- Look it up
- ChEBIBy InChIKey
Identity from ChEBI. Not evidence — none of it carries a grade.
What it touches on the way
A finding says hexadecanal moved an endpoint. This is the biology in between: the proteins and reactions it runs through to get there. It is where to look for the two things a list of findings cannot answer — why a result might happen, and what else acts on the same machinery.
4 of these are proteins with a page of their own, and that is the door: a protein page says what else it carries, which is how one compound leads to the next.
Mechanistic reach
4 entities
4 entities reached, most connected first. Hub metabolites are excluded, so this is not a claim that the compound touches everything.
0 reported hops4 assembled from the scaffold
What the reference databases state
The section above shows paths a projection assembled. This is the reference layer itself, one step from hexadecanal: what the cleared databases state it reacts with, is carried by, is converted to and takes part in, whether or not a projection has walked it yet.
Statements
6 statements
6 statements in 1 reference database name hexadecanal — Rhea. Press a relation to see only its rows; every count is the rows behind it.
- hexadecanal is converted to hexadecanoateCompoundRhea RHEA:33739Inferred only
- hexadecanoate is converted to hexadecanalCompoundRhea RHEA:33739Inferred only
- hexadecanal is metabolised by ALDH3A2ProteinRhea RHEA:33739Inferred only
- hexadecanal is metabolised by ALDH3B1ProteinRhea RHEA:33739Inferred only
- hexadecanal is metabolised by ALDH3B2ProteinRhea RHEA:33739Inferred only
- hexadecanal is a substrate of SGPL1ProteinRhea RHEA:18593Inferred only
Other names
6 names
Every name this graph resolves to hexadecanal. Searching any of them lands here.
- Also called
- 1-hexadecanal16-HexadecanalFAL 16:0n-hexadecanalPalmitaldehydePalmitic aldehyde