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B4856

Diphenylmethanol

99%

Synonym(s):

Benzhydrol, Benzhydryl alcohol, Diphenyl carbinol

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Linear Formula:
(C6H5)2CHOH
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
184.23
UNSPSC Code:
12352100
NACRES:
NA.22
PubChem Substance ID:
EC Number:
202-033-8
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
1424379
MDL number:
Assay:
99%
Form:
powder
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InChI key

QILSFLSDHQAZET-UHFFFAOYSA-N

InChI

1S/C13H12O/c14-13(11-7-3-1-4-8-11)12-9-5-2-6-10-12/h1-10,13-14H

SMILES string

OC(c1ccccc1)c2ccccc2

assay

99%

form

powder

bp

297-298 °C (lit.)

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Application

Diphenylmethanol is used in the carbene-catalyzed dynamic kinetic resolution of α,α-disubstituted carboxylic esters. It can also be used in the chiral resolution of free-base and Ni(II) porphyrinoid complexes.

Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

wgk

WGK 2

ppe

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Carbene-Catalyzed Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Carboxylic Esters.
Chen X, et al.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(23), 7212-7215 (2016)
Alkylation of alcohols for gas chromatographic analysis by a phase transfer catalysis technique. Evaluation of benzhydrol benzylation in a one-phase system.
H Brink et al.
Acta pharmaceutica Suecica, 16(4), 247-262 (1979-01-01)
Kinetics of the hydrolysis of drugs containing the diphenyl-methyl-ether group.
O O Komolafe
Materia medica Polona. Polish journal of medicine and pharmacy, 17(2), 98-102 (1985-04-01)
Masanori Ichikawa et al.
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 19(17), 5207-5224 (2011-08-02)
We have recently reported the discovery of the new benzhydrol template, which has a highly potent inhibitory activity for squalene synthase, as typified by compound 1 (SSI IC(50)=0.85 nM). However, it was composed of a pair of easy rotatable atropisomers.
L A Golovleva et al.
Biology bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 7(2), 143-151 (1980-03-01)
The possibility of complete degradation of DDT by Pseudomonas aeruginosa 640x was demonstrated in principle. A study of the conditions of degradation of DDT by this culture was made. It was demonstrated that only dechlorination of DDT to DDD is

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