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Phosphonic acid, dimethyl ester

C2H7O3P, 110.049 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

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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
C₂H₇O₃P
Molecular weight
110.049 g/mol
Exact mass
110.013281 g/mol
IUPAC name
methoxyphosphonoyloxymethane
SMILES
CO[PH](=O)OC
InChI
InChI=1S/C2H7O3P/c1-4-6(3)5-2/h6H,1-2H3
InChIKey
HZCDANOFLILNSA-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
338 to 340 °F at 760 mmHg (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
170.5measured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Melting Point
29 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Density
1.2 (USCG, 1999) - Denser than water; will sinkmeasured · CAMEO Chemicals
1.2002 g/cu cm at 20 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Solubility
greater than or equal to 100 mg/mL at 67.1 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
Soluble in water; miscible with most organic solventsmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Vapor Pressure
1 mmHg at 77 °F ; 8 mmHg at 122 °F; 32 mmHg at 158 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
4.52 [mmHg]measured · Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
LogP
-1.2measured · ILO-WHO International Chemical Safety Cards (ICSCs)
Flash Point
85 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
70 °Cmeasured · Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
Viscosity
1.06 centistokes at 25 °Cmeasured · Bennett SR et al; Environmental Hazards of Chemical Agent Simulants. CRDC-TR-84055, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD (1984)
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.4036 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. 3-200

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
110.05 g/molcalculated · reference compound database
Average mass of one molecule, from reference compound database.
Exact mass
110.01328108 Dacalculated · reference compound database
Mass of the most common isotopic form.
XLogP3
-0.5calculated · reference compound database
Estimated oil/water partition, computed by reference compound database.
Polar surface area
35.5 Ųcalculated · reference compound database
Polar surface area as computed by reference compound database.
Complexity
46calculated · reference compound database
A rough measure of how intricate the structure is.
H-bond donors
0calculated · reference compound database
H-bond acceptors
3calculated · reference compound database
logP
0.6689calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
35.53 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
3calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
2calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
23.0195 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
0.4898calculated · 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
13
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

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 Phosphonic acid, dimethyl ester yet.

Other names for it

The systematic name on this record is methoxyphosphonoyloxymethane.

The sources also call it RefChem:929181, DTXCID20164557, Bis(hydroxymethyl)phosphine oxide, Dimethoxyphosphine oxide, Dimethyl acid phosphite, Dimethyl hydrogen phosphite, Dimethyl hydrogen phosphonate, Dimethyl phosphite, Dimethyl phosphonate, Dimethylester kyselini fosforite, Dimethylester kyseliny fosforite, Dimethylfosfit.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Phosphonic acid, dimethyl ester 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.