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ethyl formate
Sign in to saveAlso known as ethyl methanoate, ethyl ester of formic acid
ester of ethanol and formic acid
Chemical data
- Formula
- C3H6O2
- Molecular weight
- 74.08 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- ethyl formate
- SMILES
- CCOC=O
- InChIKey
- WBJINCZRORDGAQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 0.5
- Polar surface area
- 26.3 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 74.036779432
- Autonomy
- 455
- Has use
- fungicide
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- vapor pressure
- 32.3
- flash point
- -20
- melting point
- -81.0
- canonical SMILES
- CCOC=O
- Commons category
- Ethyl formate
- chemical formula
- C₂H₅OOCH
- found in taxon
- Matsutake
- NIOSH Pocket Guide ID
- 0278
- density
- 0.9208
- immediately dangerous to life or health
- 4545
- boiling point
- 54.09
- solubility
- 134
- lower flammable limit
- 2.8
- upper flammable limit
- 16.0
- ionization energy
- 10.61
- time-weighted average exposure limit
- 300
- refractive index
- 1.3609
- phase point
- critical point
- surface tension
- 23.18
- dynamic viscosity
- 0.300
- electric dipole moment
- 1.98
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Encyclopedic overview
Names
Preferred IUPAC name Ethyl formate
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