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1,2-Ethanedithiol

C2H6S2, 94.204 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

verified recordOrganic — thiol6 measured properties

Drawn from the SMILES. It shows how the atoms are connected — not a photograph of a molecule, and not its shape in space.

Identifiers

Molecular formula
C₂H₆S₂
Molecular weight
94.204 g/mol
Exact mass
93.991092 g/mol
IUPAC name
ethane-1,2-dithiol
SMILES
SCCS
InChI
InChI=1S/C2H6S2/c3-1-2-4/h3-4H,1-2H2
InChIKey
VYMPLPIFKRHAAC-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Both are open without an account.

Measured properties

Values somebody obtained from a sample and published. Where two sources report the same property they are both shown, in the units each used — a disagreement between them is information, and averaging it away would be inventing a number neither one gave.

Boiling Point
146 °C at 760 mm Hgmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. 13th Edition, Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2001., p. 664
144.00 to 146.00 °C. @ 760.00 mm Hgmeasured · The Good Scents Company Information System
146 °C; 46-47 °C (6 mm Hg)measured · reference compound database
146 °C @760 [mm Hg]measured · reference compound database
Melting Point
-41.2 °Cmeasured · Lide, D.R., G.W.A. Milne (eds.). Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds. Volume I. 3rd ed. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton ,FL. 1994., p. V2: 2642
-41.2 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility
Freely soluble in alkaliesmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. 13th Edition, Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2001., p. 664
Soluble in ethanol, ether, acetone, and benzene; slightly soluble in alkali.measured · Lide, D.R., G.W.A. Milne (eds.). Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds. Volume I. 3rd ed. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton ,FL. 1994., p. V2: 6242
Soluble in oxygenated solventsmeasured · Ashford, R.D. Ashford's Dictionary of Industrial Chemicals. London, England: Wavelength Publications Ltd., 1994., p. 384
insoluble in water; miscible in fatmeasured · reference compound database
(in ethanol)measured · reference compound database
Density
1.123 at 23.5 °Cmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. 13th Edition, Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2001., p. 664
1.123-1.124 (d20/4)measured · reference compound database
1.124 @25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
5.61 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
5.61 mm Hg at 25 °C /Extrapolated/measured · Daubert, T.E., R.P. Danner. Physical and Thermodynamic Properties of Pure Chemicals Data Compilation. Washington, D.C.: Taylor and Francis, 1989.
5.68 [mm Hg] @25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.5589 at 20 °C/Dmeasured · Lide, D.R., G.W.A. Milne (eds.). Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds. Volume I. 3rd ed. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton ,FL. 1994., p. 664
1.558-1.559measured · reference compound database

Calculated properties

Derived from the structure rather than from a sample. These are reproducible and they are not measurements: a calculated partition coefficient and a measured one can differ by a long way, and where both exist they are listed apart on purpose.

Molecular weight
94.2 g/molcalculated · reference compound database
Average mass of one molecule, from reference compound database.
Exact mass
93.99109254 Dacalculated · reference compound database
Mass of the most common isotopic form.
XLogP3
0.8calculated · reference compound database
Estimated oil/water partition, computed by reference compound database.
Polar surface area
2 Ųcalculated · reference compound database
Polar surface area as computed by reference compound database.
Complexity
6calculated · reference compound database
A rough measure of how intricate the structure is.
H-bond donors
2calculated · reference compound database
H-bond acceptors
2calculated · reference compound database
logP
0.846calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
0 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
2calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can donate a hydrogen bond.
H-bond acceptors
2calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
1calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
27.706 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
1calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.4421calculated · chemistry engine
Quantitative estimate of drug-likeness (0–1).

What it is made of

Elements

Percentages are of the molecular weight above, worked out the same way the molar mass calculator does it.

Structure

Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
4
Total atoms, hydrogen included
10
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Thiol

    An –SH group, the sulfur analogue of an alcohol.

Matched by structural pattern, not by a measurement.

The molecule in three dimensions

Rotate and inspect the atoms. Loaded only when you ask, so the page stays light.

The drawing above is a diagram of what is bonded to what. A molecule is not flat, and the model here is one low-energy shape generated from the connectivity — useful for seeing which groups can reach each other, and not a measured structure. A real sample is a population of conformations, interconverting.

Reactions it appears in

No documented reaction with a written procedure and a source involves 1,2-Ethanedithiol yet.

Other names for it

The systematic name on this record is ethane-1,2-dithiol.

The sources also call it Ethane-1,2-dithiol, 1,2-Dimercaptoethane, Dithioglycol, Ethylene mercaptan, Ethylenedithiol, Ethylene dithioglycol, Ethylene dimercaptan, Ethylenedimercaptan, Dithioethyleneglycol, S-Ethylene dimercaptan, Ethylene glycol, dithio-.

Structurally related

Molecules sharing this formula, or whose fingerprint is at least 40% similar to this one. Similarity is Tanimoto on Morgan fingerprints over this library only — it is a measure of structural overlap, not of how alike they behave.

Seen alongside it in reaction records

Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as 1,2-Ethanedithiol. This says nothing about structure: most of them are the bases, solvents, ligands and catalysts the chemistry needed, and they are here because somebody put them in the same flask.

Where these values came from

compound record.

What this page does not claim

The identifiers are what the source record holds, copied rather than recomputed. Measured values are reported as their source gave them, units and all; calculated values are marked as calculated and are not measurements. Where a field is absent the page says so, because a blank cell reads as a zero and a guessed value reads as a fact.

Nothing here is a hazard assessment, a purity statement or advice about handling a sample. A flash point quoted from a safety database is a number somebody published, not a judgement by us about whether this molecule is safe for what you intend.