The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.
An acetylenic fatty acid that is octanoic acid (caprylic acid) which has been doubly dehydrogenated at positions 2 and 3 to give the corresponding alkynoic acid. It is widely used in perfumes, lipstick, and many common food flavourings.