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Dimethyl malonate

C5H8O4, 132.115 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

Organic — ester2 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
C₅H₈O₄
Molecular weight
132.115 g/mol
Exact mass
132.042259 g/mol
SMILES
COC(=O)CC(=O)OC
InChI
InChI=1S/C5H8O4/c1-8-4(6)3-5(7)9-2/h3H2,1-2H3
InChIKey
BEPAFCGSDWSTEL-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.

Vapor Pressure
14.7 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
LogP
-0.05measured · 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
-0.2775calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
52.6 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
4calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
2calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
28.649 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
0.6calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.3828calculated · 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
9
Total atoms, hydrogen included
17
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Ester

    A carbonyl bonded to an oxygen that links to another carbon.

  • Ether

    An oxygen bridging 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 Dimethyl malonate yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it Dimethyl propanedioate, Methyl malonate, MALONIC ACID, DIMETHYL ESTER, Malonic Acid Dimethyl Ester, Propanedioic acid, dimethyl ester, 1,3-dimethyl propanedioate, Malonic acid-dimethyl ester, Dimethyl 1,3-propanedioate, CCRIS 8981, propanedioic acid dimethyl ester, Dimethyl malonate, 98%, malonic acid dimethylester.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Dimethyl malonate has a page here yet.

Seen alongside it in reaction records

Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as Dimethyl malonate. 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

  • 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.