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4-oxopentanal

Named in 1 VERIFIED claim about 1 Atlas entry: Airplane Cabin.

Where the evidence names it

Airplane Cabin

Reported volatile · the claim says “increased by-products such as”

In a reconstructed aircraft cabin section occupied by people during simulated four-hour flights, adding ozone increased by-products such as acetone, nonanal, decanal, 4-oxopentanal and 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one; several of the by-products, which also included formic and acetic acid, reached levels above their reported odour thresholds, and most formed on the occupants and their clothing.

Scope: Simulated flights in a test facility with ozone added deliberately; real cabins vary with ozone level and ventilation. CLM-CABIN-001 ↗

Identifiers

PubChem
CID 164702 (4-Oxopentanal)
Formula
C5H8O2
InChIKey
KEHNRUNQZGRQHU-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Wikidata
Q26841304
ChEBI
CHEBI:87363

Checked against PubChem and Wikidata on 2026-10-05 by an automated identifier check. Every name SmellBook uses must resolve to the same single PubChem compound.

WHAT THIS MEANS

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Permanent identifier smellbook:molecule:4-oxopentanal · Graph record (JSON)

Cite as SmellBook. (2026). 4-oxopentanal (molecule). SmellBook knowledge graph, dataset release of 2026-10-05. smellbook:molecule:4-oxopentanal. https://smellbook.com/molecules/4-oxopentanal

Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-05 · sha256 d10c2deef978.