METHYL 3-AMINOCROTONATE

PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION

CAS NO. 14205-39-1

METHYL 3-AMINOCROTONATE

EINECS NO. 238-056-5
FORMULA CH3NH2C=CHCOOCH3
MOL WT. 115.13

H.S. CODE

 

TOXICITY

Oral rat LD50: 1760 mg/kg
SYNONYMS 3-Aminocrotonic acid methyl ester;
3-Amino-2-butenoic acid methyl ester;
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CLASSIFICATION

 

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES

PHYSICAL STATE white crystalline powder
MELTING POINT 82 - 85 C
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SOLUBILITY IN WATER Insoluble
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AUTOIGNITION

 

NFPA RATINGS Health: 2; Flammability: 1; Instability: 0

REFRACTIVE INDEX

 
FLASH POINT  
STABILITY

stable under ordinary conditions.

APPLICATIONS

Crotonic acid is a member of short and unsaturated cahin carboxylic acids; trans-2-butenoic acid in IUPAC sysytem name and 3-methylacrylic acid in acrylic acid series naming. It is a white to off-white crystals; soluble in water (the solution is a weak acid); melting at 71 C; boiling at 185 C. It reacts violently with bases, oxidants, reducing agents. It is found in croton oil used as a standard irritant in pharmacological research; laxative and poisonous to human. Tiglic acid is structurally the trans- form of methyl branched crotonic acid found in croton oil (trans-2,3-Dimethylacrylic acid in acrylic acid series naming). The cis- form of methyl branched crotonic acid is called angelic acid obtainable naturally from roots of Angelica plant. They are onoclinic poisonous crystals; soluble in hot water. They have a reactive double bond and carboxylic group in one molecule. They can be used as co-monomers for polymerization to prepare functional polymers as well as in protein sequencing and enzyme inhibiting. Their derivatives, acyl halides, anhydrides, esters, amides and nitriles, are used in making target products such as flavoring agents, internal plasticizers, pesticides, dyes, textile treatment agents, fungicides, and pharmaceuticals through further reactions of substitution, catalytic reduction, metal hydride reduction, diborane reduction, keto formation with organometallic reagents, electrophile bonding at oxygen, and Claisen condensation on carboxylic group and electrophilic additions, reduction, oxidation, radical additions, substitution and dienes formation on double bond. Methyl 3-aminocrotonate is used in manufacturing Nitrendipine (chemically, Ethyl methyl 1,4-dihydro-2,6-dimethyl-4- (m-nitrophenyl)-3,5-pyridinedicarboxylate), a drug to treat mild hypertension.
SALES SPECIFICATION

APPEARANCE

yellowish semi-solid

ASSAY

99.0% min

TRANSPORTATION
PACKING
200kgs in drum
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OTHER INFORMATION
Hazard Symbols: XI, Risk Phrases: 34-36/37, Safety Phrases: 26-27-28-36/37/39-45