White slice or pin shape crystal, can be dissolved in aether, acetone and hot ethanol, not easy to dissolved in water. It is abstracted from brains of animals, its chemical ingredient is cholesterol-5-ethene, its molecular formula is C27H16O, its molecular weight is 386.67, its melting point is 148.5, it is an important ethanol, it is used to be the raw material of bezoar and vitamin D3 and feed additive of shrimp and so on. Name Cholesterol
5-Cholesten-3beta-ol molecular formula C27H16O
molecular weight 386.66 CAS 57-88-5
flash point 250?? density 1.06
melting point 147-150?? boiling point 360??