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Isoamyl ether

99%

Synonym(s):

Isopentyl ether

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About This Item

Linear Formula:
(C5H11)2O
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
158.28
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352100
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.22

Quality Level

Assay

99%

form

liquid

refractive index

n20/D 1.408 (lit.)

bp

173 °C (lit.)

solubility

alcohol: miscible(lit.)
chloroform: miscible(lit.)
diethyl ether: miscible(lit.)
water: insoluble(lit.)

density

0.778 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

functional group

ether

SMILES string

CC(C)CCOCCC(C)C

InChI

1S/C10H22O/c1-9(2)5-7-11-8-6-10(3)4/h9-10H,5-8H2,1-4H3

InChI key

AQZGPSLYZOOYQP-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Application

Isoamyl ether has been used in the synthesis of:
  • silver nanoparticles in a continuous flow tubular microreactor
  • single-crystal Ag nanocubes (with slight truncation) of around 13.5nm in edge length

Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Statements

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 3 Inhalation - Aquatic Chronic 2 - Flam. Liq. 3 - Skin Sens. 1

Storage Class Code

3 - Flammable liquids

WGK

WGK 2

Flash Point(F)

114.8 °F - closed cup

Flash Point(C)

46 °C - closed cup

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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Synthesis of silver nanoparticles in a continuous flow tubular microreactor.
Lin XZ, et al.
Nano Letters, 4(11), 2227-2232 (2004)
Synthesis of small silver nanocubes in a hydrophobic solvent by introducing oxidative etching with Fe (III) species.
Ma Y, et al.
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20(18), 3586-3589 (2010)
Martín E Villanueva et al.
Journal of colloid and interface science, 543, 247-255 (2019-03-02)
The interaction of hydrophobic silver nanoparticles with different phospholipids and stratum corneum mimic (SCM) membranes is studied in Langmuir monolayers. Thus, silver nanoparticles coated with oleic acid (AgNP-OA) were synthesized, characterized and incorporated in Langmuir monolayers of single phospholipids -having
Fuyao Liu et al.
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 11(30), 3676-3685 (2015-04-29)
Hydrophobic ultrasmall nanoparticles synthesized in nonpolar solvents exhibit great potential in biomedical applications. However, a major challenge when applying these nanomaterials in biomedical research is the lack of a versatile strategy to render them water dispersible while preserving the hydrodynamic
Thiloka C Ariyasena et al.
Journal of chromatography. A, 1361, 240-254 (2014-08-30)
Retention factors on several columns and at various temperatures using gas chromatography and from reversed-phase liquid chromatography on a SunFire C18 column with various mobile phase compositions containing acetonitrile, methanol and tetrahydrofuran as strength adjusting solvents are combined with liquid-liquid

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