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2-Pentanone

C5H10O, 86.134 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

Organic — ketone9 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
C₅H₁₀O
Molecular weight
86.134 g/mol
Exact mass
86.073165 g/mol
SMILES
CCCC(C)=O
InChI
InChI=1S/C5H10O/c1-3-4-5(2)6/h3-4H2,1-2H3
InChIKey
XNLICIUVMPYHGG-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
212 to 214 °F at 760 mmHg (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
102.26 °Cmeasured · Lide, D.R. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 86TH Edition 2005-2006. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL 2005, p. 3-416
100.00 to 110.00 °C. @ 760.00 mm Hgmeasured · The Good Scents Company Information System
102 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
102 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
215 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
102 °C @760 [mm Hg]measured · reference compound database
215 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
Melting Point
-108 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
-76.8 °Cmeasured · Lide, D.R. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 86TH Edition 2005-2006. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL 2005, p. 3-416
-76.9 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-78 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-108 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
-108 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
Flash Point
45 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Flash point equals 7 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
45 °F ( 7.0 °C) (Closed cup)measured · Fire Protection Guide to Hazardous Materials. 13 ed. Quincy, MA: National Fire Protection Association, 2002., p. 325-89
7 °C c.c.measured · reference compound database
45 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
45 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility
10 to 50 mg/mL at 72 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Slightly soluble in carbon tetrachloridemeasured · Lide, D.R. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 86TH Edition 2005-2006. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL 2005, p. 3-416
Miscible with alcohol and ethermeasured · 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. 1089
In water, 4.3X10+4 mg/L at 25 °Cmeasured · Yalkowsky SH, Dannenfelser RM; The AQUASOL dATAbASE of Aqueous Solubility. Fifth ed, Tucson, AZ: Univ Az, College of Pharmacy (1992)
43 mg/mL at 25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility in water, g/100ml at 20 °C: 4 (moderate)measured · reference compound database
miscible with alcohol, ether, propylene glycol, oils; 1 ml in 25 ml watermeasured · reference compound database
(in ethanol)measured · reference compound database
6%measured · reference compound database
Density
0.809 at 68 °F (USCG, 1999) - Less dense than water; will floatmeasured · U.S. Coast Guard. 1999. Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) - Hazardous Chemical Data. Commandant Instruction 16465.12C. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
0.809 at 20 °C/4 °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. 1089
Relative density (water = 1): 0.8measured · reference compound database
0.801-0.806measured · reference compound database
0.81measured · reference compound database
0.801-0.806 @25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
0.81measured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
12 mmHg at 68 °F ; 16 mmHg at 77 °F; 21 mmHg at 86 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
35.4 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
35.4 mm Hg at 25 °Cmeasured · Riddick, J.A., W.B. Bunger, Sakano T.K. Techniques of Chemistry 4th ed., Volume II. Organic Solvents. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons., 1985.
Vapor pressure, kPa at 20 °C: 1.6measured · reference compound database
12 mmHgmeasured · reference compound database
27 mmHgmeasured · reference compound database
LogP
log Kow = 0.91measured · Hansch, C., Leo, A., D. Hoekman. Exploring QSAR - Hydrophobic, Electronic, and Steric Constants. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society., 1995., p. 14
0.91measured · reference compound database
0.91measured · reference compound database
0.95measured · reference compound database
Viscosity
0.473 cp at 25 °Cmeasured · Lewis, R.J. Sr.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 14th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY 2001., p. 745
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.3895 at 20 °C/Dmeasured · Lide, D.R. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 86TH Edition 2005-2006. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL 2005, p. 3-416
1.387-1.392measured · 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.

logP
1.3755calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
17.07 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
0calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can donate a hydrogen bond.
H-bond acceptors
1calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
2calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
25.589 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
0.8calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.4958calculated · 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
6
Total atoms, hydrogen included
16
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Ketone

    A carbonyl bonded to two carbons.

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 2-Pentanone yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it PENTAN-2-ONE, METHYL PROPYL KETONE, Ethyl acetone, Ethylacetone, Methyl n-propyl ketone, Propyl methyl ketone, Metylopropyloketon, Methylpropyl ketone, Methyl-propyl-cetone, FEMA No. 2842, FEMA Number 2842, 4-methyl-2-butanone.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to 2-Pentanone has a page here yet.

Where these values came from

  • chemistry engine

    structure perception

No matching record was found in the currently indexed sources (reference compound database)..

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.