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Reactant involved in: • ;Synthesis of copolymers of acrylamide and sodium acryloyloxydecanoate1• ;Macrolactonization for preparation of Sansalvamide A2• ;Studies of chain length selectivity for cutinase catalyzed polycondensation reactions3• ;Ruthenium-catalyzed esterification followed by macrocyclization4• ;Synthesis of anhydrides and esters5

ChEBI: A 10-carbon, omega-hydroxy fatty acid, shown to be the preferred hydroxylation product (together with the 9-OH isomer) of capric acid in biosystems, and used as a standard in lipid assays; reported to have cytotoxic effects.