Lauroyl alanine is a fatty acid amide. It may be used to support the physical gelation of binary mixtures of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbon solvents.
Cycloate is a herbicide. It inhibits the biosynthesis of very-long-chain fatty acids, which is the essential constituents of plant suberin and waxes. Fatty acids also serve as precursors of aliphatic carbon chains in resorcinolic lipids.
2-Bromo-1-decanal was synthesized as an affinity labeling probe for the aliphatic aldehyde site of Vibrio harveyi luciferase. In the presence of excess amounts of this probe, the inactivation of bacterial luciferase occurred following apparent first order