4659 Behenic acid Behenic acid, also docosanoic acid, is a normal carboxylic acid, a fatty acid with formula C21H43COOH It is .an important constituent of the behen oil extracted from the seeds of the Ben-oil tree, and it is so named from the Persian month Bahman when the roots of this tree were harvested. 112-85-6 8215 C22H44O2 340.6 White powder. 81 °C 306°C 1.6e-05 mg/mL No indication of carcinogenicity to humans (not listed by IARC). 2014-09-05T17:13:00Z 2026-04-16T22:15:32Z Behenic acid C08281 28941 true CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC(O)=O C22H44O2 InChI=1S/C22H44O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22(23)24/h2-21H2,1H3,(H,23,24) UKMSUNONTOPOIO-UHFFFAOYSA-N 340.5836 340.334130652 Endogenous Solid HMDB00944 CHEMBL1173474 7923 Lu, Jianmin; Li, He; Yang, Yiping; Du, Baoshan. Preparation of behenic acid from erucic acid by hydrogenation at ordinary pressure. Zhongguo Youzhi (1997), 22(5), 57-58. CHEM003565 DTXSID3026930 docosanoic acid