Undecylic acid explained
Undecylic acid (systematically named undecanoic acid) is a carboxylic acid with chemical formula . It is often used as an antifungal agent, to treat ringworm and athlete's foot, for example.[1] Like decanoic acid, it has a distinctive, unpleasant odor.
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- Voicu . Raluca . Boukherroub . Rabah . Bartzoka . Vasiliki . Ward . Tim . Wojtyk . James T. C. . Wayner . Danial D. M. . 2004-12-21 . Formation, characterization, and chemistry of undecanoic acid-terminated silicon surfaces: patterning and immobilization of DNA . Langmuir: The ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids . 20 . 26 . 11713–11720 . 10.1021/la047886v . 0743-7463 . 15595802.
