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Isopentyl nitrite

Name: Isopentyl nitrite
Brand: SIAL

96%

Synonym(s):

Isoamyl nitrite

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Linear Formula:

(CH₃)₂CHCH₂CH₂ONO

CAS Number:

110-46-3

Molecular Weight:

117.15

UNSPSC Code:

12171500

NACRES:

NA.47

PubChem Substance ID:

24849038

EC Number:

203-770-8

Beilstein/REAXYS Number:

969510

MDL number:

MFCD00002057

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Properties

Quality Level

200

assay

96%

form

liquid

technique(s)

titration: suitable

color

colorless to green-yellow, colorless to yellow

refractive index

n20/D 1.386 (lit.)

bp

99 °C (lit.)

mp

<-80 °C

solubility

water: soluble 0.38 g/L at 25 °C

density

0.872 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

application(s)

diagnostic assay manufacturing
hematology
histology

storage temp.

2-8°C

SMILES string

CC(C)CCON=O

InChI

1S/C5H11NO2/c1-5(2)3-4-8-6-7/h5H,3-4H2,1-2H3

InChI key

OWFXIOWLTKNBAP-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Description

General description

Isopentyl nitrite, also known as isoamyl nitrite, is an oxidant, and nitrosating agent for phosphoramidites which rearrange into phosphotriesters during nitrosation.

Application

Isopentyl nitrite has been used:

as a radical initiator to functionalize multi-walled carbon nanotubes.
as a reagent in the preparation of 4-carboxy-phenyl diazonium salt tetrafluoroborate.
in the synthesis of peroxynitrite (ONOO-).

Isopentyl nitrite, also known as isoamyl nitrite, is used for the generation of benzyne from anthranilic acid. Its applications are also seen in kits to treat cyanide poisoning, its function being to oxidize hemoglobin (Hb) to methemoglobin (metHb) which reacts with cyanide to form the non-toxic cyano-metHb.