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Triethyl phosphite

C6H15O3P, 166.157 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

Organic compound7 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
C₆H₁₅O₃P
Molecular weight
166.157 g/mol
Exact mass
166.075881 g/mol
SMILES
CCOP(OCC)OCC
InChI
InChI=1S/C6H15O3P/c1-4-7-10(8-5-2)9-6-3/h4-6H2,1-3H3
InChIKey
BDZBKCUKTQZUTL-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
311 °F at 760 mmHg (USCG, 1999)measured · U.S. Coast Guard. 1999. Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) - Hazardous Chemical Data. Commandant Instruction 16465.12C. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
157.9 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-526
157-159 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
156 °C @760 [mm Hg]measured · reference compound database
Melting Point
-112 °Cmeasured · OECD; SIDS Initial Assessment Report for SIAM 16 (2003), Triethyl Phosphite (CAS 122-52-1). Available from, as of July 13, 2016: https://www.inchem.org/documents/sids/sids/122521.pdf
Flash Point
115 °F (USCG, 1999)measured · U.S. Coast Guard. 1999. Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) - Hazardous Chemical Data. Commandant Instruction 16465.12C. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
54 °C (129 °F) - closed cupmeasured · Sigma-Aldrich; Safety Data Sheet for Triethyl phosphite. Product Number: T61204 Version 4.8 (Revision Date 01/13/2016). Available from, as of July 1, 2016: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/safety-center.html
54 °C c.c.measured · reference compound database
Solubility
Soluble in alcohol, ethermeasured · Larranaga, M.D., Lewis, R.J. Sr., Lewis, R.A.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 16th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ 2016., p. 1371
Solubility in water: reactionmeasured · reference compound database
Density
0.969 (USCG, 1999) - Less dense than water; will floatmeasured · U.S. Coast Guard. 1999. Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) - Hazardous Chemical Data. Commandant Instruction 16465.12C. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
0.9629 g 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): 0.97measured · reference compound database
1.413 @25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
1.95 mm Hg at 20 °Cmeasured · OECD; SIDS Initial Assessment Report for SIAM 16 (2003), Triethyl Phosphite (CAS 122-52-1). Available from, as of July 13, 2016: https://www.inchem.org/documents/sids/sids/122521.pdf
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.4127 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

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
2.3228calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
27.69 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
6calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
41.798 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
0.5665calculated · 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
10
Total atoms, hydrogen included
25
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

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 phosphite yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it Triethoxyphosphine, Phosphorous acid, triethyl ester, Ethyl phosphite, (EtO)3P, Fosforyn trojetylowy, TRIS(ETHOXY)PHOSPHINE, triethylphosphite, Phosphorous Acid Triethyl Ester, Triethoxyphosphine-d15, Fosforyn trojetylowy [Czech], Phosphorus ether, triethyl-phosphite, tri ethyl phosphite.

Structurally related

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

Seen alongside it in reaction records

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