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Methylcyclohexane

spectrophotometric grade, 99%

Synonym(s):

Hexahydrotoluene

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Linear Formula:
C6H11CH3
CAS Number:
108-87-2
Molecular Weight:
98.19
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
505972
EC Number:
203-624-3
MDL number:
MFCD00001497
UNSPSC Code:
12352001
PubChem Substance ID:
329752837
NACRES:
NA.21

grade

spectrophotometric grade

vapor density

3.4 (vs air)

vapor pressure

37 mmHg ( 20 °C)
83.2 mmHg ( 37.7 °C)

assay

99%

form

liquid

autoignition temp.

545 °F

expl. lim.

6.7 %

technique(s)

UV/Vis spectroscopy: suitable

impurities

<0.010% water

evapn. residue

<0.0005%

refractive index

n20/D 1.422 (lit.)

bp

101 °C (lit.)

mp

−126 °C (lit.)

density

0.77 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

λ

H2O reference

UV absorption

λ: 207 nm Amax: 1.00
λ: 221 nm Amax: 0.40
λ: 232 nm Amax: 0.15
λ: 260 nm Amax: 0.05
λ: 300-400 nm Amax: 0.01

SMILES string

CC1CCCCC1

InChI

1S/C7H14/c1-7-5-3-2-4-6-7/h7H,2-6H2,1H3

InChI key

UAEPNZWRGJTJPN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

Methylcyclohexane is an organic compound that belongs to the class of saturated hydrocarbons. It is primarily used as a solvent in organic synthesis.

Application

Methylcyclohexane can be used as a model compound in fluid catalytic cracking reactions.

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Aquatic Acute 1 - Aquatic Chronic 1 - Asp. Tox. 1 - Flam. Liq. 2 - Skin Irrit. 2 - STOT SE 3

target_organs

Central nervous system

Storage Class

3 - Flammable liquids

wgk_germany

WGK 2

flash_point_f

24.8 °F - closed cup

flash_point_c

-4.0 °C - closed cup

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Methylcyclohexane and methylcyclohexene cracking over zeolite Y catalysts.
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Liliana Martelo et al.
The journal of physical chemistry. B, 119(48), 15023-15029 (2015-11-10)
Phasor plots of the fluorescence intensity decay (plots of the Fourier sine transform versus the Fourier cosine transform, for one or several angular frequencies) are being increasingly used in studies of homogeneous and heterogeneous systems. In this work, the phasor
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Low thermal mass gas chromatography (LTM-GC) was evaluated for rapid, high peak capacity separations with three injection methods: liquid, headspace solid phase micro-extraction (HS-SPME), and direct vapor. An Agilent LTM equipped with a short microbore capillary column was operated at

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