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Glycolic acid

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

Synonym(s):

Hydroxyacetic acid

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Linear Formula:
HOCH2COOH
CAS Number:
79-14-1
Molecular Weight:
76.05
EC Number:
201-180-5
UNSPSC Code:
41116107
NACRES:
NA.24
PubChem Substance ID:
329770390
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
1209322
MDL number:
MFCD00004312

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Product Name

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

InChI

1S/C2H4O3/c3-1-2(4)5/h3H,1H2,(H,4,5)

SMILES string

OCC(O)=O

InChI key

AEMRFAOFKBGASW-UHFFFAOYSA-N

grade

certified reference material
TraceCERT®

shelf life

limited shelf life, expiry date on the label

manufacturer/tradename

Manufactured by: Sigma-Aldrich Production GmbH, Switzerland

storage condition

under inert gas (Argon)

technique(s)

HPLC: suitable
gas chromatography (GC): suitable

mp

75-80 °C (lit.)

application(s)

cleaning products
cosmetics
food and beverages
personal care

format

neat

storage temp.

2-8°C

Quality Level

300

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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.
This substance is listed on the positive list of the EU regulation 10/2011 for plastics intended to come into contact with food.

Packaging

Bottomless glass bottle. Contents are inside inserted fused cone.

Legal Information

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

pictograms

CorrosionExclamation mark
GHS05,GHS07

signalword

Danger

hcodes

H314,H332

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Inhalation - Eye Dam. 1 - Skin Corr. 1B

Storage Class

8A - Combustible corrosive hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

>572.0 °F - (decomposition)

flash_point_c

> 300 °C - (decomposition)

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W H Porter et al.
Journal of toxicology. Clinical toxicology, 39(6), 607-615 (2002-01-05)
To correlate serum glycolic acid levels with clinical severity and outcome in ethylene glycol poisoning and to determine if glycolic acid levels are predictive of renal failure and the need for hemodialysis. We measured serum ethylene glycol and glycolic acid
Thea R Pick et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(8), 3185-3190 (2013-02-06)
Photorespiratory carbon flux reaches up to a third of photosynthetic flux, thus contributes massively to the global carbon cycle. The pathway recycles glycolate-2-phosphate, the most abundant byproduct of RubisCO reactions. This oxygenation reaction of RubisCO and subsequent photorespiration significantly limit
Ingela Bjurhager et al.
Biomacromolecules, 13(8), 2521-2527 (2012-07-10)
In 1628, the Swedish warship Vasa capsized on her maiden voyage and sank in the Stockholm harbor. The ship was recovered in 1961 and, after polyethylene glycol (PEG) impregnation, it was displayed in the Vasa museum. Chemical investigations of the
Genqiang Zhang et al.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 24(34), 4609-4613 (2012-06-26)
Novel ZnMn(2)O(4) ball-in-ball hollow microspheres are fabricated by a facile two-step method involving the solution synthesis of ZnMn-glycolate hollow microspheres and subsequent thermal annealing in air. When evaluated as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries, these ZnMn(2)O(4) ball-in-ball hollow microspheres
E P Leumann et al.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany), 4(5), 493-497 (1990-09-01)
The molar ratios of oxalate and glycolate over creatinine were determined in single urine samples of 26 infants and 27 children aged 1-5 years. In 135 children aged 5-16 years, two urine specimens were collected, one before breakfast and one
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