Skip to Content
Merck

07-4820

Dimethyl sulfate

SAJ first grade, ≥99.0%

Synonym(s):

Sulfuric acid dimethyl ester

Sign In to View Organizational & Contract Pricing.

Select a Size

About This Item

Linear Formula:
(CH3O)2SO2
CAS Number:
77-78-1
Molecular Weight:
126.13
PubChem Substance ID:
329748447
UNSPSC Code:
12352108
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
635994
MDL number:
MFCD00008416

Key Documents

View All Documentation
Technical Service
Need help? Our team of experienced scientists is here for you.
Let Us Assist
Technical Service
Need help? Our team of experienced scientists is here for you.
Let Us Assist

SMILES string

COS(=O)(=O)OC

InChI

1S/C2H6O4S/c1-5-7(3,4)6-2/h1-2H3

InChI key

VAYGXNSJCAHWJZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

grade

SAJ first grade

vapor density

4.3 (vs air)

vapor pressure

0.7 mmHg ( 25 °C)

assay

≥99.0%

form

liquid

autoignition temp.

923 °F

availability

available only in Japan

refractive index

n20/D 1.386 (lit.)

bp

188 °C (lit.)

mp

−32 °C (lit.)

density

1.333 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

Looking for similar products? Visit Product Comparison Guide

signalword

Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 2 Inhalation - Acute Tox. 3 Oral - Carc. 1B - Eye Dam. 1 - Muta. 2 - Skin Corr. 1B - Skin Sens. 1

Storage Class

6.1A - Combustible acute toxic Cat. 1 and 2 / very toxic hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

181.4 °F

flash_point_c

83 °C

Regulatory Listings

Regulatory Listings are mainly provided for chemical products. Only limited information can be provided here for non-chemical products. No entry means none of the components are listed. It is the user’s obligation to ensure the safe and legal use of the product.

Class I Designated Chemical Substances

prtr

Group 4: Flammable liquids + Type 3 petroleums + Hazardous rank III + Water insoluble liquid

fsl

Substances Subject to be Indicated Names

ishl_indicated

Substances Subject to be Notified Names

ishl_notified

07-4820-6-500ML-J: + 07-4820-5-500G-J:

jan

Choose from one of the most recent versions:

Certificates of Analysis (COA)

Lot/Batch Number
A0359
A1146
U4840
U2672
A6654

Don't see the Right Version?

If you require a particular version, you can look up a specific certificate by the Lot or Batch number.

Search for a COA

Already Own This Product?

Find documentation for the products that you have recently purchased in the Document Library.

Visit the Document Library

Jie Zheng et al.
Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis, 50(5), 1054-1059 (2009-07-07)
Dimethyl sulfate (DMS) is an alkylating reagent commonly used in organic syntheses and pharmaceutical manufacturing processes. Due to its potential carcinogenicity, the level of DMS in the API process needs to be carefully monitored. However, in-process testing for DMS is
Cecilia E Ström et al.
Nucleic acids research, 39(8), 3166-3175 (2010-12-25)
Base excision repair (BER) represents the most important repair pathway of endogenous DNA lesions. Initially, a base damage is recognized, excised and a DNA single-strand break (SSB) intermediate forms. The SSB is then ligated, a process that employs proteins also
Yogo Sakakibara et al.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(22), 8396-8399 (2011-05-12)
The movement of the small ribosomal subunit (30S) relative to the large ribosomal subunit (50S) during translation is widely known, but many molecular details and roles of rRNA and proteins in this process are still undefined, especially in solution models.
Li Z Luo et al.
PloS one, 7(3), e30541-e30541 (2012-03-14)
The potential for human disease treatment using human pluripotent stem cells, including embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), also carries the risk of added genomic instability. Genomic instability is most often linked to DNA repair deficiencies, which
Pasquale Moio et al.
Proteomics, 11(2), 249-260 (2011-01-05)
Protein footprinting is a new methodology that is based on probing, typically with the use of MS, of reactivity of different amino acid residues to a modifying reagent. Data thus obtained allow one to make inferences about protein conformations and
View All Related Papers

Our team of scientists has experience in all areas of research including Life Science, Material Science, Chemical Synthesis, Chromatography, Analytical and many others.

Contact Technical Service