Citral

No odour description is filed for it here. Its identity is PubChem’s (the record is the mixture’s CAS).

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molecule

The Citral molecule

A computed 3D conformer , modeled, not a photograph of a molecule. PubChem CID 638011.

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PubChem’s computed 3D conformer of Citral (CID 638011, conformer 0009BC3B00000001): the shape a computer model gives the molecule, not an experimental structure and not a picture of a real molecule. Ball and stick: 10 carbon, 1 oxygen; the 16 hydrogen atoms are left out for clarity. The balls are drawn smaller than the atoms’ real reach; a double bond is two sticks, side by side.

In the room

scaled so that one ångström is 4 cm (about 400 million times life size): 17.8 cm tall, 29.7 cm across

Atoms

10 carbon, 1 oxygen · 10 bonds between them

Colours

carbon: ink sepia-2; oxygen: rose highlight; bonds: brass. Colour is a convention here and never carries the meaning alone: the letters on the drawing and this list say which atom is which.

Source

PubChem, CID 638011 (National Center for Biotechnology Information), its computed 3D conformer as filed on this record

Licence

PubChem’s data are public (NCBI); the model and its drawing were made for this site from those coordinates

The files GLB 21 KB · USDZ 47 KB · the drawing (SVG) 4 KB

The record

Each field carries its evidence: open a chip for the source, the quoted words and the confidence. A field with nothing behind it says so and stays empty.

Name

Citral

documented

Citral

PUBCHEM-638011 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 638011, Citral · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

CAS

5392-40-5

documented

5392-40-5

PUBCHEM-638011 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 638011, Citral · read 2026-09-30

among the CID’s PubChem synonyms, and PubChem resolves it back to this CID

confidence A

PubChem CID

638011

documented

PUBCHEM-638011 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 638011, Citral · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Formula

C10H16O

documented

PUBCHEM-638011 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 638011, Citral · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Molecular weight

152.23

documented

PUBCHEM-638011 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 638011, Citral · read 2026-09-30

g/mol, as PubChem states it

confidence A

IUPAC name

(2E)-3,7-dimethylocta-2,6-dienal

documented

PUBCHEM-638011 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 638011, Citral · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

SMILES

CC(=CCC/C(=C/C=O)/C)C

documented

PUBCHEM-638011 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 638011, Citral · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

InChIKey

WTEVQBCEXWBHNA-JXMROGBWSA-N

documented

PUBCHEM-638011 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 638011, Citral · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Odour threshold

withheld: not on record

withheld

no odour-threshold source on record

Descriptors

not on record

not on record

no descriptor on record: no house wording on a data file, no descriptor source filed

Volatility class

not on record

not on record

no volatility class on record for citral (the house’s volatility table has no entry)

Regulation

• IFRA Standard: Citral
• Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 on cosmetic products

documented

IFRA-021, EU-2009-1223: each record above quotes its entry.

3D structure

PubChem computed 3D conformer · 27 atoms, 26 bonds

modeled

PUBCHEM-638011 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 638011, Citral · read 2026-09-30

PubChem’s computed 3D conformer (the 3D SDF record): a model, drawn schematically, not an experimental structure

confidence A

Wikidata

Q410888

documented

P662 PubChem CID: 638011

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the item states PubChem CID 638011 (P662) and the record’s InChIKey (P235); found by the statement search haswbstatement:P662=638011

confidence A

Odeuropa

EOKG concept

documented

{"concept":"http://data.odeuropa.eu/vocabulary/flavornet/odorants/465","relation":"wdt:P231","via":"CAS 5392-40-5","label":"citral","scheme":"http://data.odeuropa.eu/vocabulary/flavornet/odorants/"}

ODEUROPA-1 · Lisena, P., Ehrhart, T., Troncy, R · read 2026-09-30

the EOKG concept “citral” states the record’s CAS (wdt:P231); other linked concepts: http://data.odeuropa.eu/vocabulary/dravnieks/odorants/32, http://data.odeuropa.eu/vocabulary/flavornet/odorants/216

confidence A

Occurs in

Sources

1. PUBCHEM-638011 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 638011, Citral ((2E)-3,7-dimethylocta-2,6-dienal). National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine; live database, read 2026-09-30 through the PUG REST endpoints (no account): https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/name/5392-40-5/cids/JSON · https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/638011/property/MolecularFormula,MolecularWeight,IUPACName,Title,SMILES,InChIKey/JSON · https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/638011/synonyms/JSON · https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/638011/SDF?record_type=3d. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/638011 · read 2026-09-30 · public domain (US government work, NCBI/NLM); acknowledgement requested , cite PubChem
2. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0
3. ODEUROPA-1 · Lisena, P., Ehrhart, T., Troncy, R. European Olfactory Knowledge Graph (EOKG), Odeuropa project. Zenodo, 2024. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10709703. SPARQL endpoint https://data.odeuropa.eu/repositories/odeuropa, read 2026-09-30. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10709703 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0

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this record as data: /data/molecule/citral.json · version 3 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence A