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72945

Ethyl methanesulfonate

certified reference material, TraceCERT®, Manufactured by: Sigma-Aldrich Production GmbH, Switzerland

Synonym(s):

Ethyl mesylate, Methanesulfonic acid ethyl ester

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Linear Formula:
CH3SO3CH2CH3
CAS Number:
62-50-0
Molecular Weight:
124.16
UNSPSC Code:
41116107
NACRES:
NA.24
PubChem Substance ID:
329764478
EC Number:
200-536-7
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
773969
MDL number:
MFCD00007559

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Product Name

Ethyl methanesulfonate, certified reference material, TraceCERT®, Manufactured by: Sigma-Aldrich Production GmbH, Switzerland

InChI

1S/C3H8O3S/c1-3-6-7(2,4)5/h3H2,1-2H3

SMILES string

CCOS(C)(=O)=O

InChI key

PLUBXMRUUVWRLT-UHFFFAOYSA-N

grade

certified reference material
TraceCERT®

product line

TraceCERT®

shelf life

limited shelf life, expiry date on the label

manufacturer/tradename

Manufactured by: Sigma-Aldrich Production GmbH, Switzerland

technique(s)

HPLC: suitable
gas chromatography (GC): suitable

refractive index

n20/D 1.418 (lit.)

bp

85-86 °C/10 mmHg (lit.)

density

1.206 g/mL at 20 °C

application(s)

environmental
pharmaceutical

format

neat

storage temp.

−20°C

Quality Level

300

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Application

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General description

This certified reference material (CRM) is produced and certified in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 17034. This CRM is traceable to primary material from an NMI, e.g. NIST or NMIJ.
Certified content by quantitative NMR incl. uncertainty and expiry date are given on the certificate.
Download your certificate at: http://www.sigma-aldrich.com.

Other Notes

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Packaging

Bottomless glass bottle. Contents are inside inserted fused cone.

Legal Information

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

pictograms

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GHS08,GHS07

signalword

Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Carc. 1B - Eye Irrit. 2 - Muta. 1B - Repr. 2 - Skin Irrit. 2 - Skin Sens. 1

Storage Class

6.1C - Combustible acute toxic Cat.3 / toxic compounds or compounds which causing chronic effects

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

212.0 °F

flash_point_c

100 °C

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Catherine Charles et al.
Food chemistry, 135(4), 2974-2981 (2012-09-18)
The complexity of DNA repair mechanisms infers that xenobiotics, derived from food and medicinal plants, may interfere in the process, activating or inhibiting repair. Different flavonoids were investigated, at the highest non-toxic concentration, for their capacity to modulate DNA repair
Tendekai Mahlanza et al.
Plant cell reports, 32(2), 249-262 (2012-10-24)
KEY MESSAGE : A combination of in vitro culture and mutagenesis using ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) followed by culture filtrate-mediated selection produced variant sugarcane plants tolerant and resistant to Fusarium sacchari. Eldana saccharina is a destructive pest of the sugarcane crop
G A Sega
Mutation research, 134(2-3), 113-142 (1984-09-01)
Ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) is a monofunctional ethylating agent that has been found to be mutagenic in a wide variety of genetic test systems from viruses to mammals. It has also been shown to be carcinogenic in mammals. Alkylation of cellular
Benjamin Hartwig et al.
Plant physiology, 160(2), 591-600 (2012-07-28)
Mapping-by-sequencing (or SHOREmapping) has revitalized the powerful concept of forward genetic screens in plants. However, as in conventional genetic mapping approaches, mapping-by-sequencing requires phenotyping of mapping populations established from crosses between two diverged accessions. In addition to the segregation of
Mingguang Lei et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(1), 527-532 (2013-11-20)
DNA methylation is important for the silencing of transposons and other repetitive elements in many higher eukaryotes. However, plant and mammalian genomes have evolved to contain repetitive elements near or inside their genes. How these genes are kept from being
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