Ethyl pyruvate
CAS Registry Number®
617-35-6
CAS Name
Ethyl pyruvateMolecular Formula
C5H8O3Molecular Mass
116.12Cite this Page
Ethyl pyruvate. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?cas_rn=617-35-6 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 617-35-6). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Boiling Point (1)
155 °CMelting Point (1)
-50 °CDensity (2)
1.0596 g/cm³ @ Temp: 15-16 °C
Source(s)
- (1) PhysProp data were obtained from Syracuse Research Corporation of Syracuse, New York (US)
- (2) Auwers, K.; Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, (1912), 44, 3525-42, CAplus
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C5H8O3/c1-3-8-5(7)4(2)6/h3H2,1-2H3
InChIKey
InChIKey=XXRCUYVCPSWGCC-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C(OCC)(C(C)=O)=O
Canonical SMILES
O=C(OCC)C(=O)C
Other Names for this Substance
- Propanoic acid, 2-oxo-, ethyl ester
- Pyruvic acid, ethyl ester
- Ethyl pyruvate
- Ethyl 2-oxopropanoate
- Ethyl 2-oxopropionate
