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Heptafluorobutyric acid

98%

Synonym(s):

Edman Reagent No. 3, HFBA, Perfluorobutyric acid

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Linear Formula:
CF3CF2CF2COOH
CAS Number:
375-22-4
Molecular Weight:
214.04
UNSPSC Code:
12352100
NACRES:
NA.22
PubChem Substance ID:
24850063
EC Number:
206-786-3
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
1426882
MDL number:
MFCD00004171

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Product Name

Heptafluorobutyric acid, 98%

vapor pressure

~10 mmHg ( 25 °C)

assay

98%

form

liquid

InChI key

YPJUNDFVDDCYIH-UHFFFAOYSA-N

InChI

1S/C4HF7O2/c5-2(6,1(12)13)3(7,8)4(9,10)11/h(H,12,13)

SMILES string

OC(=O)C(F)(F)C(F)(F)C(F)(F)F

vapor density

7 (vs air)

refractive index

n20/D 1.3 (lit.)

bp

120 °C/755 mmHg (lit.)

density

1.645 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

functional group

carboxylic acid
fluoro

Quality Level

200

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Application

Perfluorobutyric acid was used as mobile phase modifier for enhancement of selectivity in the HPLC analysis of histone proteins. It was used as ion pairing reagent in preparative and analytical reserved phase HPLC of underivatised peptides.

General description

Perfluorobutyric acid is an effective additive for zinc electrodeposition.

pictograms

Corrosion
GHS05

signalword

Danger

hcodes

H314

Hazard Classifications

Eye Dam. 1 - Skin Corr. 1A

Storage Class

8A - Combustible corrosive hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

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Zinc electrowinning from acidic sulphate solutions Part IV: effects of perfluorocarboxylic acids.
Tripathy BC, et al.
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 565(1), 49-56 (2004)
M Naldi et al.
Journal of chromatography. A, 1129(1), 73-81 (2006-08-05)
The application of reversed-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography under gradient conditions and electrospray ion trap mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS) to the analysis of global modification levels of core histones is described. The optimised LC-ESI-MS method was applied for the first time to
D R Harding et al.
International journal of peptide and protein research, 18(2), 214-220 (1981-08-01)
This report describes the successful use of the ether soluble, ion pairing reagents perfluoropropoinic and perfluorobutyric acid in the preparative and analytical reserved phase HPLC of underivatised peptides. The preparative separation of a 1-g sample of Pyr-His-Gly, the proposed anorexigenic
Huilun Chen et al.
International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(4) (2020-02-23)
Perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs) are some of the most significant pollutants in human serum, and are reported to be potentially toxic to humans. In this study, the binding mechanism of PFCAs with different carbon lengths to human serum albumin (HSA)
V Gellrich et al.
Chemosphere, 87(9), 1052-1056 (2012-03-07)
Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) can be detected worldwide in both, soil and water. In order to study the leaching behavior of this heterogeneous group of compounds in soil, flow-through column experiments have been conducted. Ten perfluoro carboxylates and four perfluoro sulfonates
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