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Triglyme

C8H18O4, 178.228 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

Organic — ether7 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
C₈H₁₈O₄
Molecular weight
178.228 g/mol
Exact mass
178.120509 g/mol
SMILES
COCCOCCOCCOC
InChI
InChI=1S/C8H18O4/c1-9-3-5-11-7-8-12-6-4-10-2/h3-8H2,1-2H3
InChIKey
YFNKIDBQEZZDLK-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
421 °F at 760 mmHg (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
216 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
216 °C @760 [mm Hg]measured · reference compound database
Melting Point
-49 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
-45 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Flash Point
232 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
111 °C o.c.measured · reference compound database
Solubility
greater than or equal to 100 mg/mL at 70 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Solubility in water: misciblemeasured · reference compound database
Density
0.99 at 68 °F (NTP, 1992) - Less dense than water; will floatmeasured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Relative density (water = 1): 0.99measured · reference compound database
0.986 @25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
0.9 mmHg at 68 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
0.04 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
Vapor pressure, kPa at 20 °C: 0.12measured · reference compound database
LogP
-0.48measured · 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
0.3124calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
36.92 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
9calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
45.39 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
0.4762calculated · 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
12
Total atoms, hydrogen included
30
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • 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 Triglyme yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it 2,5,8,11-TETRAOXADODECANE, Triethylene glycol dimethyl ether, 1,2-Bis(2-methoxyethoxy)ethane, Glyme 4, Ansul ether 161, Glyme-3, 1-methoxy-2-[2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethoxy]ethane, TEGDIME, TEGDME, Dimethyl ether of triethylene glycol, Ethane, 1,2-bis(2-methoxyethoxy)-, 1-methoxy-2-(2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethoxy)ethane.

Structurally related

Molecules sharing this formula, or whose fingerprint is at least 40% similar to this one. Similarity is Tanimoto on Morgan fingerprints over this library only — it is a measure of structural overlap, not of how alike they behave.

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.