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T3394

Tetraethylene glycol monooctyl ether

liquid, ≥98% (GC)

Synonym(s):

C8E4, Octyl tetraethylene glycol ether, Octyltetraglycol

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Linear Formula:
CH3(CH2)7(OCH2CH2)4OH
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
306.44
UNSPSC Code:
12161900
NACRES:
NA.25
PubChem Substance ID:
MDL number:
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
1781226
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Product Name

Tetraethylene glycol monooctyl ether, liquid, ≥98% (GC)

InChI key

FEOZZFHAVXYAMB-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES string

CCCCCCCCOCCOCCOCCOCCO

InChI

1S/C16H34O5/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-9-18-11-13-20-15-16-21-14-12-19-10-8-17/h17H,2-16H2,1H3

description

non-ionic

assay

≥98% (GC)

form

liquid

mol wt

306.44 g/mol

density

0.969 g/mL at 20 °C (lit.)

Quality Level

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Application

Reported to be useful in solubilizing membrane proteins.
Tetraethylene glycol monooctyl ether has been used in a study to assess thermal diffusion behavior of nonionic surfactants in water. It has also been used in a study to investigate unusual micelle and surface adsorption behavior in mixtures of surfactants.

General description

Tetraethylene glycol monooctyl ether is a surfactant.

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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 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

Eyeshields, Gloves, type ABEK (EN14387) respirator filter


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Carolanne E Norris et al.
International journal of mass spectrometry, 460 (2020-12-08)
Rhodopsin, a prototypical G-protein-coupled receptor, is responsible for scoptic vision at low-light levels. Although rhodopsin's photoactivation cascade is well understood, it remains unclear how lipid and zinc binding to the receptor are coupled. Using native mass spectrometry, we developed a
Jeremy Guerin et al.
eLife, 9 (2020-10-23)
Bacterial contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) systems use a type Vb secretion mechanism to export large CdiA toxins across the outer membrane by dedicated outer membrane transporters called CdiB. Here, we report the first crystal structures of two CdiB transporters from
J B Vieira et al.
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 21(10), 4441-4451 (2005-07-22)
Micellization and adsorption at the air-solution interface of binary mixtures of the triblock copolymer of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, EO23PO52EO23 (EPE), and the surfactants sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), dodecyl trimethylammonium chloride (DTAC), and tetraethylene glycol monooctyl ether (C8EO4) have
Raquel Rodríguez-Alonso et al.
Nature chemical biology, 16(9), 1019-1025 (2020-06-24)
The β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) inserts outer membrane β-barrel proteins (OMPs) in the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. In Enterobacteriacea, BAM also mediates export of the stress sensor lipoprotein RcsF to the cell surface by assembling RcsF-OMP complexes. Here, we
Hui Ning et al.
The journal of physical chemistry. B, 110(22), 10746-10756 (2006-06-15)
We studied the thermal diffusion behavior of hexaethylene glycol monododecyl ether (C12E6) in water by means of thermal diffusion forced Rayleigh scattering (TDFRS) and determined Soret coefficients, thermal diffusion coefficients, and diffusion constants at different temperatures and concentrations. At low

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