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E15701

Ethyl butyrate

99%

Synonym(s):

Ethyl butanoate, Butyric acid ethyl ester

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Linear Formula:
CH3CH2CH2C(O)OC2H5
CAS Number:
105-54-4
Molecular Weight:
116.16
UNSPSC Code:
12352100
NACRES:
NA.22
PubChem Substance ID:
24894421
EC Number:
203-306-4
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
506331
MDL number:
MFCD00009394

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Product Name

Ethyl butyrate, 99%

InChI key

OBNCKNCVKJNDBV-UHFFFAOYSA-N

InChI

1S/C6H12O2/c1-3-5-6(7)8-4-2/h3-5H2,1-2H3

SMILES string

CCCC(=O)OCC

vapor density

4 (vs air)

vapor pressure

15.5 mmHg ( 25 °C)

assay

99%

form

liquid

autoignition temp.

865 °F

refractive index

n20/D 1.392 (lit.)

bp

120 °C (lit.)

mp

−93 °C (lit.)

density

0.875 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

Quality Level

100

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Application

Ethyl butyrate is a short-chain, fruit-flavored ester mainly generally used in food and pharmaceutical products.

pictograms

Flame
GHS02

signalword

Warning

hcodes

H226

Hazard Classifications

Flam. Liq. 3

Storage Class

3 - Flammable liquids

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

78.8 °F - closed cup

flash_point_c

26 °C - closed cup

ppe

Eyeshields, Faceshields, Gloves, type ABEK (EN14387) respirator filter

Regulatory Information

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Esterification activity and operational stability of Candida rugosa lipase immobilized in polyurethane foams in the production of ethyl butyrate.
Pires-Cabral P, et al.
Biochemical Engineering Journal, 48(2), 246-252 (2010)
Short-chain flavour ester synthesis by immobilized lipase in organic media.
Manjon A, et al.
Biotechnology Letters, 13(5), 339-344 (1991)
Suhyoung Bahk et al.
BMC biology, 14(1), 83-83 (2016-10-01)
Like most animals, insects rely on their olfactory systems for finding food and mates and in avoiding noxious chemicals and predators. Most insect olfactory neurons express an odorant-specific odorant receptor (OR) along with Orco, the olfactory co-receptor. Orco binds ORs
Eric S Folker et al.
Development (Cambridge, England), 139(20), 3827-3837 (2012-09-07)
Various muscle diseases present with aberrant muscle cell morphologies characterized by smaller myofibers with mispositioned nuclei. The mechanisms that normally control these processes, whether they are linked, and their contribution to muscle weakness in disease, are not known. We examined
Aidan Kiely et al.
Journal of neuroscience methods, 159(2), 189-194 (2006-08-22)
Olfactory receptors (ORs) are seven transmembrane proteins that are responsible for the transduction of volatiles into neuronal signals. Their low sequence homology means that the prediction of ligands for ORs based on extrapolation from empirical data of other ORs is
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Protocols

Enzymatic Assay of Esterase

Objective: To standardize a procedure for the enzymatic determination of Esterase activity using Ethyl Butyrate as a substrate.

酯酶的酶促测定

在测定酯酶活性时，使用丁酸乙酯通过pH滴定速率法进行测定。酯酶可以将酯水解成酸和醇。

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