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61716

4-Nitrophenyl dodecanoate

≥98.0% (GC)

Synonym(s):

4-Nitrophenyl laurate, Dodecanoic acid 4-nitrophenyl ester

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C18H27NO4
CAS Number:
1956-11-2
Molecular Weight:
321.41
UNSPSC Code:
12352204
NACRES:
NA.83
PubChem Substance ID:
57651858
EC Number:
217-796-2
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
1889084
MDL number:
MFCD00047730

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InChI key

YNGNVZFHHJEZKD-UHFFFAOYSA-N

InChI

1S/C18H27NO4/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-18(20)23-17-14-12-16(13-15-17)19(21)22/h12-15H,2-11H2,1H3

SMILES string

CCCCCCCCCCCC(=O)Oc1ccc(cc1)[N+]([O-])=O

assay

≥98.0% (GC)

mp

~46 °C

solubility

chloroform: 1 g/10 mL, clear, colorless to faintly greenish-yellow

storage temp.

2-8°C

Quality Level

100

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Application

4-Nitrophenyl dodecanoate has been used as a substrate:
  • for carboxylesterase to assess the enzyme-substrate affinity
  • in a chromogenic assay to evaluate lipase activity
  • to determine the esterase activity of patatin

Biochem/physiol Actions

4-Nitrophenyl dodecanoate is a p-nitrophenol ester derivative and serves as a typical model substrate in lipase assays.

Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

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Vladimír Mastihuba et al.
Analytical biochemistry, 309(1), 96-101 (2002-10-17)
We have developed a spectrophotometric assay for the quantitative determination of feruloyl esterase activity based on release of 4-nitrophenol from a novel substrate, 4-nitrophenyl ferulate in an emulsion of Triton X-100 in aqueous buffer solution. The release of 4-nitrophenol was
Honglei Zhai et al.
Food & function, 7(8), 3382-3389 (2016-07-12)
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of cereal soluble dietary fibres (SDFs), β-glucans (BG) from oat and barley as well as arabinoxylans (AX) from wheat and rye, on the lipolysis of p-nitrophenyl laurate (p-NP laurate). p-NP
M Elleder et al.
Virchows Archiv. A, Pathological anatomy and histopathology, 416(4), 357-365 (1990-01-01)
An extremely benign variant of cholesterol ester storage disease (CESD) was diagnosed in two female patients aged 43 and 56 years. In one of them the course was entirely subclinical until a stroke at the age of 47, most probably
A Wyss et al.
Biotechnology and bioengineering, 93(1), 28-39 (2005-09-02)
A novel reactive perstraction system has been developed based on liquid-core capsules, involving an enzyme-catalyzed reaction coupled with simultaneous in situ product recovery. Lipase-catalyzed reactions, hydrolysis of triprionin and nitrophenyl laurate, were selected to test the system and demonstrate the
Mohammad Heidarizadeh et al.
International journal of biological macromolecules, 101, 696-702 (2017-04-02)
Immobilization of lipase was successfully achieved on the surface of magnetically separable Fe
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