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Ethyl acetate

CAS Registry Number®

141-78-6

CAS Name

Ethyl acetate

Molecular Formula

C4H8O2

Molecular Mass

88.11

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Ethyl acetate.   CAS Common Chemistry.   CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d.   http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=141-78-6 (retrieved 2024-12-03) (CAS RN: 141-78-6).  Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Compound Properties

  • Boiling Point (1)

    77 °C

  • Melting Point (1)

    -83 °C

  • Density (1)

    0.902 g/cm³ @ Temp: 20 °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/C4H8O2/c1-3-6-4(2)5/h3H2,1-2H3

InChIKey

InChIKey=XEKOWRVHYACXOJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

O(C(C)=O)CC

Canonical SMILES

O=C(OCC)C

Other Names for this Substance

  • Acetic acid ethyl ester
  • Acetic acid, ester with EtOH
  • Ethyl acetate
  • Acetic ether
  • Acetidin

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