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Triethyl Citrate

C12H20O7, 276.285 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

Organic — 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
C₁₂H₂₀O₇
Molecular weight
276.285 g/mol
Exact mass
276.120903 g/mol
SMILES
CCOC(=O)CC(O)(CC(=O)OCC)C(=O)OCC
InChI
InChI=1S/C12H20O7/c1-4-17-9(13)7-12(16,11(15)19-6-3)8-10(14)18-5-2/h16H,4-8H2,1-3H3
InChIKey
DOOTYTYQINUNNV-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
294 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-526
127.00 °C. @ 1.00 mm Hgmeasured · The Good Scents Company Information System
294 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
294 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Melting Point
-55 °Cmeasured · Clayton, G.D., F.E. Clayton (eds.) Patty's Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology. Volumes 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F: Toxicology. 4th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1993-1994., p. 3059
< 25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-55 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Flash Point
155 °C (311 °F) - closed cupmeasured · Sigma-Aldrich; Material Safety Data Sheet for Triethyl citrate. Product Number: W308307, Version 3.9 (Revision Date 07/09/2014). Available from, as of April 29, 2015: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/safety-center.html
151 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility
In water, 6.50X10+4 mg/L at room tempmeasured · Lewis, R.J. Sr.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 15th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY 2007., p. 1272
In peanut oil: 0.8%; miscible with alcohol, ethanol, ethermeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 416
Slightly soluble in carbon tetrachloride; soluble in ethanol, ethyl ethermeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-526
65 mg/mLmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility in water: moderatemeasured · reference compound database
slightly soluble in water; miscible with alcohol and ethermeasured · reference compound database
(in ethanol)measured · reference compound database
Density
1.1369 g/cu cm at 20 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-526
Relative density (water = 1): 1.1measured · reference compound database
1.138-1.139measured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
0.00189 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
Vapor pressure = 1 mm Hg at 107.0 °Cmeasured · Lewis, R.J. Sr. (ed) Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 12th Edition. Wiley-Interscience, Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ. 2012., p. 4371
6.87X10-4 mm Hg at 25 °C (extrapolated)measured · Ohe S; Computer Aided Data Book of Vapor Pressure. Tokyo, Japan: Data Book Publ Co (1976)
Vapor pressure, Pa at 25 °C: 0.3measured · reference compound database
Viscosity
35.2 cP at 25 °Cmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 416
Refractive Index
[n]D/20: 1,439-1,441measured · reference compound database
Index of refraction = 1.4455 at 20 °C/Dmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-526
1.440-1.444measured · 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
0.187calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
99.13 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
1calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can donate a hydrogen bond.
H-bond acceptors
7calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
8calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
64.0828 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
0.75calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.4986calculated · 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
19
Total atoms, hydrogen included
39
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Ester

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

  • Alcohol

    An –OH group on a saturated 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 Triethyl Citrate yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it Ethyl citrate, Citroflex 2, Eudraflex, Hydragen CAT, Citric acid, triethyl ester, 1,2,3-Propanetricarboxylic acid, 2-hydroxy-, triethyl ester, Triaethylcitrat, FEMA No. 3083, Citroflex ec, Citrofol ai, Morflex tec, Citric acid ethyl ester.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Triethyl Citrate has a page here yet.

Seen alongside it in reaction records

Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as Triethyl Citrate. 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.