Diethylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether
An alcohol, C5H12O3, 120.148 g/mol. Boiling point 193 °C, melting point Less than -84 °C, as published.
Identifiers
- Molecular formula
- C₅H₁₂O₃
- Molecular weight
- 120.148 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 120.078644 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethanol
- COCCOCCO
- InChI=1S/C5H12O3/c1-7-4-5-8-3-2-6/h6H,2-5H2,1H3
- SBASXUCJHJRPEV-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Measured properties
- Boiling Point
- 381 °F at 760 mmHg (NTP, 1992)
- 193 °C
- Melting Point
- -94 °F (NTP, 1992)
- Less than -84 °C
- Density
- 1.025 at 68 °F (USCG, 1999) - Denser than water; will sink
- 1.035 g/cu cm at 20 °C
- Solubility
- greater than or equal to 100 mg/mL at 66 °F (NTP, 1992)
- Miscible /1X10+6 mg/L/ with water
- Vapor Pressure
- 0.2 mmHg at 68 °F ; 0.25 mmHg at 77 °F (NTP, 1992)
- 0.25 [mmHg]
- LogP
- -1.14/-0.93 (calculated)
- -1.1
- Flash Point
- 200 °F (NTP, 1992)
- 205 °F (96 °C) (open cup)
- Viscosity
- 3.48 mPa.s (=cPa) at 25 °C
- Refractive Index
- Index of refraction: 1.4264 at 27 °C/D
Calculated properties
- Molecular weight
- 120.15 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 120.078644241 Da
- XLogP3
- -0.9
- Polar surface area
- 38.7 Ų
- Complexity
- 38
- H-bond donors
- 1
- H-bond acceptors
- 3
- logP
- -0.3583
- Topological polar surface area
- 38.69 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 1
- H-bond acceptors
- 3
- Rotatable bonds
- 5
- Molar refractivity
- 29.7808 cm³/mol
- Fraction sp³ carbons
- 1
- QED drug-likeness
- 0.5035
What it is made of
Elements
Structure
- Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
- 8
- Total atoms, hydrogen included
- 20
- Rings
- 0
- Aromatic rings
- 0
- Stereocentres
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
Functional groups
Alcohol
Ether
The molecule in three dimensions
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
Other names for it
The systematic name on this record is 2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethanol.
The sources also call it 2-(2-Methoxyethoxy)ethanol, Methyl carbitol, Methoxydiglycol, Methyl digol, Dowanol DM, Diethylene glycol methyl ether, MECB, 3,6-Dioxa-1-heptanol, Ethanol, 2-(2-methoxyethoxy)-, Methyl dioxitol, Ektasolve DM.
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 Diethylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether. 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.
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What this page does not claim
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