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Preferred IUPAC name
Octadec-6-ynoic acid | |
Other names
6-octadecynoic acid
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C18H32O2 | |
Molar mass | 280.44 g/mol |
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Tariric acid is an acetylenic fatty acid that can be found in the tallow-wood tree, Ximenia americana.[1]
Léon-Albert Arnaud (1853–1915) was the first scientist to describe the chemical make-up of tariric acid, an extraction from the glucoside of the "tariri plant" found in Guatemala.[2]