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45887

Mirex solution

100 μg/mL in acetonitrile, PESTANAL®, analytical standard

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C10Cl12
CAS Number:
2385-85-5
Molecular Weight:
545.54
UNSPSC Code:
41116107
NACRES:
NA.24
PubChem Substance ID:
329757001
EC Number:
200-835-2
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
5605269
MDL number:
MFCD00167995

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InChI key

GVYLCNUFSHDAAW-UHFFFAOYSA-N

InChI

1S/C10Cl12/c11-1-2(12)7(17)4(14)3(13,5(1,15)9(7,19)20)6(1,16)10(21,22)8(2,4)18

SMILES string

ClC1(Cl)C2(Cl)C3(Cl)C4(Cl)C(Cl)(Cl)C5(Cl)C3(Cl)C1(Cl)C5(Cl)C24Cl

grade

analytical standard

product line

PESTANAL®

shelf life

limited shelf life, expiry date on the label

concentration

100 μg/mL in acetonitrile

technique(s)

HPLC: suitable, gas chromatography (GC): suitable

application(s)

agriculture
cleaning products
cosmetics
environmental
food and beverages
personal care

format

single component solution

storage temp.

2-8°C

Quality Level

100

General description

Mirex is an organochlorine insecticide, found to be carcinogenic and moderately toxic in nature and is persistant in the environment as an organic pollutant.

Application

Mirex may be used as an internal standard for the determination of organochlorine pesticides in fruits and ergosterol analysis for the detection of molds in soil samples using gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry.
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Legal Information

PESTANAL is a registered trademark of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Dermal - Acute Tox. 4 Inhalation - Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Eye Irrit. 2 - Flam. Liq. 2

Storage Class

3 - Flammable liquids

wgk

WGK 2

flash_point_f

35.6 °F - closed cup

flash_point_c

2 °C - closed cup

ppe

Eyeshields, Faceshields, Gloves, type ABEK (EN14387) respirator filter

Regulatory Information

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BCBS3258V

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The Pesticide Encyclopedia (2014)
Analysis of ergosterol for the detection of mold in soils by automated on-fiber derivatization headspace extraction-SPME-GC/MS
Parkinson.R.D, et al.
Analytica Chimica Acta, 661(2), 181-187 (2010)
Evaluation of QuEChERS method for the determination of organochlorine pesticide residues in selected groups of fruits
Cieslik E, et al.
Food Chemistry, 125(2), 773-778 (2011)
Hongliang Jia et al.
Environmental science & technology, 45(7), 2613-2618 (2011-03-01)
Dechloranes, including Dechlorane Plus (DP), Mirex (Dechlorane), Dechlorane 602 (Dec 602), Dechlorane 603 (Dec 603), and Dechlorane 604 (Dec 604), were determined using GC-MSD for water, sediment and oyster samples collected at 15 sampling sites near the Bohai and Huanghai
Bin Wang et al.
Chemosphere, 79(3), 299-304 (2010-02-09)
China is a country with the most severe termite damage in the world. Mirex is one of the two effective orgochlorine pesticides used in China for termite control. A high-resolution gas chromatography/high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRGC/HRMS) was employed for mirex analysis
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