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Benzene
ACS reagent, ≥99.0%
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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C6H6
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
78.11
UNSPSC Code:
12352002
NACRES:
NA.21
PubChem Substance ID:
EC Number:
200-753-7
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
969212
MDL number:
Assay:
≥99.0%
Grade:
ACS reagent
Bp:
80 °C (lit.)
Vapor pressure:
166 mmHg ( 37.7 °C), 74.6 mmHg ( 20 °C)
grade
ACS reagent
Quality Level
vapor density
2.77 (vs air)
vapor pressure
166 mmHg ( 37.7 °C), 74.6 mmHg ( 20 °C)
assay
≥99.0%
form
liquid
autoignition temp.
1043 °F
expl. lim.
8 %
dilution
(for analytical testing)
impurities
H2SO4, passes test (darkened), thiophene, passes test (limit ∼1ppm), ≤0.005% S compounds, ≤0.05% water (Karl Fischer)
evapn. residue
≤0.001%
color
APHA: ≤10
refractive index
n20/D 1.501 (lit.)
bp
80 °C (lit.)
mp
5.5 °C (lit.)
density
0.874 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)
SMILES string
c1ccccc1
InChI
1S/C6H6/c1-2-4-6-5-3-1/h1-6H
InChI key
UHOVQNZJYSORNB-UHFFFAOYSA-N
General description
Benzene is a monocyclic aromatic compound used as a solvent in chemical reactions. It is an essential raw material for fuels, rubber and plastics products, detergents, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals.
Our premium ACS solvents are ideal for routine chemical synthesis, drying, purification, and critical labware cleaning. They meet or exceed the rigorous standards of the American Chemical Society (ACS), ensuring high-quality results for your research needs.
Premium ACS Solvents: Our solvents meet or exceed the stringent standards set by the American Chemical Society, ensuring high quality and reliability for your laboratory applications.
Replicable and Publishable Results: Designed for consistency, our solvents deliver results that can be reliably reproduced, making them ideal for research that requires publication.
Versatile Applications: Suitable for routine chemical synthesis, drying, purification, and critical labware cleaning, our solvents cater to a wide range of research needs in the laboratory.
Premium ACS Solvents: Our solvents meet or exceed the stringent standards set by the American Chemical Society, ensuring high quality and reliability for your laboratory applications.
Replicable and Publishable Results: Designed for consistency, our solvents deliver results that can be reliably reproduced, making them ideal for research that requires publication.
Versatile Applications: Suitable for routine chemical synthesis, drying, purification, and critical labware cleaning, our solvents cater to a wide range of research needs in the laboratory.
Application
Benzene can be used as a solvent in the:
- Heck Reaction of vinyl bromides with styrenes to synthesize functionalized 1,3-dienes.
- Gallium-catalyzed reductive lactonization of γ-keto acids to γ-lactone derivatives.
- Anionic polymerization of styrene and 1,3-butadiene in the presence of phosphazene as a base.
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Danger
Hazard Classifications
Aquatic Chronic 3 - Asp. Tox. 1 - Carc. 1A - Eye Irrit. 2 - Flam. Liq. 2 - Muta. 1B - Skin Irrit. 2 - STOT RE 1
target_organs
Blood
Storage Class
3 - Flammable liquids
flash_point_f
12.2 °F
flash_point_c
-11 °C
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Jelle Vlaanderen et al.
Environmental health perspectives, 119(2), 159-167 (2010-10-01)
The use of occupational cohort studies to assess the association of benzene and lymphoma is complicated by problems with exposure misclassification, outcome classification, and low statistical power. We performed meta-analyses of occupational cohort studies for five different lymphoma categories: Hodgkin
Cliona M McHale et al.
Carcinogenesis, 33(2), 240-252 (2011-12-15)
Benzene causes acute myeloid leukemia and probably other hematological malignancies. As benzene also causes hematotoxicity even in workers exposed to levels below the US permissible occupational exposure limit of 1 part per million, further assessment of the health risks associated
Scott M Arnold et al.
Critical reviews in toxicology, 43(2), 119-153 (2013-01-26)
Abstract A framework of "Common Criteria" (i.e. a series of questions) has been developed to inform the use and evaluation of biomonitoring data in the context of human exposure and risk assessment. The data-rich chemical benzene was selected for use