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Methyl methanesulfonate

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Synonym(s):

Methanesulfonic acid methyl ester

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Linear Formula:
CH3SO3CH3
CAS Number:
66-27-3
Molecular Weight:
110.13
EC Number:
200-625-0
UNSPSC Code:
12352103
NACRES:
NA.22
PubChem Substance ID:
24847934
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
1098586
MDL number:
MFCD00007557
Assay:
99%
Form:
liquid
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Quality Level

100

assay

99%

form

liquid

refractive index

n20/D 1.414 (lit.)

bp

202-203 °C (lit.)

density

1.3 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

functional group

sulfonic acid

SMILES string

COS(C)(=O)=O

InChI

1S/C2H6O3S/c1-5-6(2,3)4/h1-2H3

InChI key

MBABOKRGFJTBAE-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Biochem/physiol Actions

DNA adduct; adds methyl groups to DNA at 7-guanine preferentially, but also 3-adenine and 3-guanine.

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 3 Oral - Aquatic Chronic 2 - Carc. 2 - Eye Irrit. 2 - Muta. 1B - Repr. 2 - Skin Irrit. 2 - Skin Sens. 1 - STOT RE 2 Inhalation

target_organs

Lungs

Storage Class

6.1C - Combustible acute toxic Cat.3 / toxic compounds or compounds which causing chronic effects

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

219.2 °F - closed cup

flash_point_c

104 °C - closed cup

ppe

Eyeshields, Faceshields, Gloves, type ABEK (EN14387) respirator filter

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Amaya Azqueta et al.
Toxicology in vitro : an international journal published in association with BIBRA, 27(2), 768-773 (2012-12-25)
A serious limitation of the conventional comet assay (single cell gel electrophoresis) is the restriction on the number of samples that can be processed in one experiment, imposed by the size of the electrophoresis platform. One approach to increasing throughput
Cathrine Broberg Vågbø et al.
DNA repair, 12(3), 188-195 (2013-01-02)
Cytotoxic 1-methyladenine (1-meA) and 3-methylcytosine (3-meC) lesions induced in DNA and RNA in vitro and in pre-damaged DNA and RNA bacteriophages in vivo are repaired by the Escherichia coli (E. coli) protein AlkB and a human homolog, ALKBH3. However, it
Stephen Godin et al.
Nucleic acids research, 41(8), 4525-4534 (2013-03-06)
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Shu complex, consisting of Shu1, Shu2, Csm2 and Psy3, promotes error-free homologous recombination (HR) by an unknown mechanism. Recent structural analysis of two Shu proteins, Csm2 and Psy3, has revealed that these proteins are Rad51 paralogues and
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