ETHYL CYANOACETATE

PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION

CAS NO. 105-56-6

ETHYL CYANOACETATE

EINECS NO. 203-309-0
FORMULA NCCH2COOC2H5
MOL WT. 113.12

H.S. CODE

2926.90

TOXICITY

Oral rat LD50: 2820 mg/kg
SYNONYMS Malonic Ethyl Ester Nitrile;

Acetic acid, cyano-, ethyl ester; Cyanessigsäureethylester (German); Cyanoacétate d'éthyle (French); Cianoacetato di etile (Italian);

SMILES

 

CLASSIFICATION

 

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES

PHYSICAL STATE clear to very light yellow liquid
MELTING POINT -22 C
BOILING POINT 209 C
SPECIFIC GRAVITY

1.063

SOLUBILITY IN WATER

Insoluble

pH  
VAPOR DENSITY  

AUTOIGNITION

478 C

NFPA RATINGS

 

REFRACTIVE INDEX

1.4175

FLASH POINT

110 C

STABILITY Stable under ordinary conditions. Color turns dark upon exposure to light

APPLICATIONS

Nitrile is any of a family of organic compounds containing cyano group (-C》N) which is attached to a carbon atom and having the general formula RC》N. Their names are corresponding to carboxylic acids by changing '-ic acid' to '-onitrile', or '-nitrile', whichever preserves a single letter o. Examples are acetonitrile from acetic acid and benzonitrile from benzoic acid. Pendant nitriles are often named as ^cyano ̄ substituents. Cyanoacetic acid, the half nitriled-malonic acid, and its esters are basic chemical intermediates for the production of;
  • Malonates
  • Barbitals
  • Caffeine, Betaine, Vitamin B
  • Pharamceuticals
  • Glycine
  • Surfactancts
  • Agrochemicals
  • Dyestuffs
  • Adhesives
  • Indigo dyes
  • Herbicides
  • Engineering plastics
SALES SPECIFICATION

APPEARANCE

Clear to very yellow liquid

ASSAY

99.0% min

WATER

0.1% max

ACID

30 mg/kg (as cyanoacetic acid)

COLOR, APHA

50 max

TRANSPORTATION
PACKING 200kgs in drum
HAZARD CLASS

6.1 (Packing group : III)

UN NO.

2810

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF NITRILE
Nitrile is an organic compounds containing cyano group (-C》N, containing trivalent nitrogen) which is attached to one carbon atom with the general formula RC》N. Their names are corresponding to carboxylic acids by changing '-ic acid' to the suffix, '-onitrile' which denotes only the 》N atom (triply bound) excluding the carbon atom attached to it, or  the suffix, '-carbonitrile' where the carbon atom in the -CN is included, whichever preserves a single letter O. Examples are acetonitrile from acetic acid and benzonitrile from benzoic acid. The prefix,  'cyano-' is used as an alternative naming system to indicate the presence of a nitrile group in a molecule for the compounds of salts and organic derivatives of hydrogen cyanide (HC》N). Isocyanides are salts and hydrocarbyl derivatives from the isomer, HN+》C-. Sodium cyanide, NaCN; potassium cyanide, KCN; calcium cyanide, Ca(CN)2; and hydrocyanic (or prussic) acid, HCN are examples.

Although nitriles don't have a carbonyl group, they are often considered as derivatives of carboxylic acids. Nitrile undergoes acid hydrolysis to form a carboxylic acid. Nitrile is reduced to form amine in the presence of nickel catalyst. Grignard reagents add to nitriles, forming a relatively stable imino derivative which can be hydrolyzed to a ketone. Metaloimine is hydrolyzed to give beta-ketoester. Nitrile undergoes a sequence of nucleophilic additions with an alcohol under acid catalysis, called nitrile alcoholysis. Nitriles are hydrolyzed to carboxylic acids, alcoholyzed to esters, reduced to amines, cyclyzed to pyridine derivatives.