Methyl formate

CAS Registry Number®

107-31-3

CAS Name

Methyl formate

Molecular Formula

C2H4O2

Molecular Mass

60.05

Cite this Page

Methyl formate.   CAS Common Chemistry.   CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d.   http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=107-31-3 (retrieved 2024-11-21) (CAS RN: 107-31-3).  Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Compound Properties

  • Boiling Point (1)

    31.5 °C

  • Melting Point (1)

    -99.8 °C

  • Density (1)

    0.987 g/cm³ @ Temp: 15 °C

Source(s)

  • (1) Hazardous Substances Data Bank data were obtained from the National Library of Medicine (US)

Other Names and Identifiers

InChI

InChI=1S/C2H4O2/c1-4-2-3/h2H,1H3

InChIKey

InChIKey=TZIHFWKZFHZASV-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

C(OC)=O

Canonical SMILES

O=COC

Other Names for this Substance

  • Formic acid, methyl ester
  • Methyl formate
  • Methyl methanoate
  • Methanoic acid methyl ester
  • R 611

View All

Deleted or Replaced CAS Registry Numbers

1053659-55-4, 1173023-73-8, 1196157-81-9

CAS INSIGHTSTM
Targeted protein degrader structure, illustration