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Ethyl Propionate

C5H10O2, 102.133 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

verified recordOrganic — ester8 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
C₅H₁₀O₂
Molecular weight
102.133 g/mol
Exact mass
102.06808 g/mol
IUPAC name
ethyl propanoate
SMILES
CCOC(=O)CC
InChI
InChI=1S/C5H10O2/c1-3-5(6)7-4-2/h3-4H2,1-2H3
InChIKey
FKRCODPIKNYEAC-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
210 °F at 760 mmHg (USCG, 1999)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
99.2 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Melting Point
-99 °F (USCG, 1999)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
-73.9 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Density
0.891 (USCG, 1999) - Less dense than water; will floatmeasured · CAMEO Chemicals
0.8917 @ 20 °C/4 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Solubility
SOLUBLE IN MOST ORGANIC SOLVENTSmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Soluble in alcohol and ethermeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Vapor Pressure
35.9 [mmHg]measured · Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
Vapor pressure: 40 mm Hg @ 27.2 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
LogP
log Kow= 1.21measured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
1.21measured · Human Metabolome Database (HMDB)
Flash Point
54 °F (USCG, 1999)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
12 °C (CLOSED CUP)measured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.3844 @ 20 °C/Dmeasured · Lide, D.R. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 79th ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press Inc., 1998-1999., p. 3-281
1.383-1.385measured · 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
102.13 g/molcalculated · reference compound database
Average mass of one molecule, from reference compound database.
Exact mass
102.068079557 Dacalculated · reference compound database
Mass of the most common isotopic form.
XLogP3
1.2calculated · reference compound database
Estimated oil/water partition, computed by reference compound database.
Polar surface area
26.3 Ųcalculated · reference compound database
Polar surface area as computed by reference compound database.
Complexity
59calculated · reference compound database
A rough measure of how intricate the structure is.
H-bond donors
0calculated · reference compound database
H-bond acceptors
2calculated · reference compound database
logP
0.9595calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
26.3 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
2calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
2calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
26.924 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
0.4852calculated · 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
7
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

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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 Ethyl Propionate yet.

Other names for it

The systematic name on this record is ethyl propanoate.

The sources also call it Ethyl propanoate, Propanoic acid, ethyl ester, Propionic ether, Propionic ester, Propionic acid, ethyl ester, Propionate d'ethyle, FEMA No. 2456, Ethylester kyseliny propionove, DTXSID1040110, AT9K8FY49U, NSC-8848.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Ethyl Propionate has a page here yet.

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.