MOLECULE
Named in 1 VERIFIED claim about 1 Atlas entry: Seaweed.
Reported volatile · the claim says “identified in several species”
A review of edible seaweeds reports volatiles composed mainly of aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, hydrocarbons, esters, acids, sulfur compounds and furans, with benzaldehyde, 2-octenal, octanal, β-ionone and 8-heptadecene identified in several species.
Scope: Edible green, red and brown seaweeds; the review calls for more research on their flavour compounds. CLM-SEAWEED-001 ↗
The names used for this molecule resolve to more than one PubChem record (2-octenal: 5283324, 16900, 6427080), so SmellBook records no identifier. The molecule is named only as the claim names it.
Checked against PubChem and Wikidata on 2026-10-03 (identifier check run 37117518739). Every name SmellBook uses must resolve to the same single PubChem compound.
SmellBook lists a molecule only where a VERIFIED claim names it, in the role and scope that claim states. A molecule reported in a smell's evidence is not the whole smell: most smells come from many compounds together, and the studies measured particular samples, such as one cultivar, an essential oil or a cooked product.
Permanent identifier smellbook:molecule:2-octenal · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). 2-octenal (molecule). SmellBook knowledge graph, Strategy Phase 389. smellbook:molecule:2-octenal. https://smellbook.com/molecules/2-octenal
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 389.