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43758

(±)-1,2,4-Butanetriol

analytical standard

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Linear Formula:
HOCH2CH2CH(OH)CH2OH
CAS Number:
3068-00-6
Molecular Weight:
106.12
UNSPSC Code:
85151701
NACRES:
NA.24
PubChem Substance ID:
329756388
EC Number:
221-323-5
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
1733456
MDL number:
MFCD00002929

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SMILES string

OCCC(O)CO

InChI key

ARXKVVRQIIOZGF-UHFFFAOYSA-N

InChI

1S/C4H10O3/c5-2-1-4(7)3-6/h4-7H,1-3H2

grade

analytical standard

agency

ASTM® D6584

assay

≥97.0% (GC)

shelf life

limited shelf life, expiry date on the label

Quality Level

100

refractive index

n20/D 1.474

bp

190-191 °C/18 mmHg (lit.)

density

1.184 g/mL at 20 °C, 1.19 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

application(s)

environmental

format

neat

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General description

1,2,4-Butanetriol (BT) is an important precursor utilized for the synthesis of the energetic material butanetriol trinitrate and several other chemicals. BT is also useful in the manufacture of plasticizers, polymers, cationic lipids, and pharmaceutical compounds.

Application

1,2,4-Butanetriol may be used as an internal standard for the determination of glycerol, and mono-, di-, and triglycerides in vegetable oil methyl esters by capillary gas chromatography and gas chromatography coupled with flame ionization detector (GC-FID).

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ASTM is a registered trademark of American Society for Testing and Materials

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Hazard Classifications

Eye Irrit. 2 - Skin Irrit. 2 - STOT SE 3

target_organs

Respiratory system

Storage Class

10 - Combustible liquids

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

370.4 °F - closed cup

flash_point_c

188 °C - closed cup

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BCBT6539

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Simultaneous determination of glycerol, and mono-, di-and triglycerides in vegetable oil methyl esters by capillary gas chromatography
Plank C and Lorbeer E
Journal of Chromatography A, 697(1-2), 461-468 (1995)
Metabolic engineering of Arabidopsis for butanetriol production using bacterial genes
Abdel G, et al.
Metabolic engineering, 20(1), 109-120 (2013)
Direct bioconversion of d-xylose to 1, 2, 4-butanetriol in an engineered Escherichia coli
Valdehuesa K, et al.
Process Biochemistry (Oxford, United Kingdom), 49(1), 25-32 (2014)
Validation of a method for determination of free glycerol in biodiesel
Senila L, et al.
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Chemia, 345(1-2), 461-468 (2016)
Ming Yan et al.
Journal of molecular biology, 427(8), 1765-1778 (2014-12-21)
The SAGA (Spt-Ada-Gcn5 acetyltransferase) complex performs multiple functions in transcription activation including deubiquitinating histone H2B, which is mediated by a subcomplex called the deubiquitinating module (DUBm). The yeast DUBm comprises a catalytic subunit, Ubp8, and three additional subunits, Sgf11, Sus1
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