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Benzene

Pharmaceutical Secondary Standard; Certified Reference Material

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C6H6
CAS Number:
71-43-2
Molecular Weight:
78.11
Beilstein:
969212
EC Number:
200-753-7
MDL number:
MFCD00003009
UNSPSC Code:
41116107
PubChem Substance ID:
329823296
NACRES:
NA.24

grade

certified reference material
pharmaceutical secondary standard

Quality Level

300

Agency

traceable to NIST 3000
traceable to USP 1601146

vapor density

2.77 (vs air)

vapor pressure

166 mmHg ( 37.7 °C)
74.6 mmHg ( 20 °C)

CofA

current certificate can be downloaded

autoignition temp.

1043 °F

expl. lim.

8 %

technique(s)

HPLC: suitable
gas chromatography (GC): suitable

refractive index

n20/D 1.501 (lit.)

bp

80 °C (lit.)

mp

5.5 °C (lit.)

density

0.874 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

application(s)

pharmaceutical (small molecule)

format

neat

storage temp.

2-30°C

SMILES string

c1ccccc1

InChI

1S/C6H6/c1-2-4-6-5-3-1/h1-6H

InChI key

UHOVQNZJYSORNB-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

Pharmaceutical secondary standards for application in quality control, provide pharma laboratories and manufacturers with a convenient and cost-effective alternative to the preparation of in-house working standards..

Application

Benzene may be used as a pharmaceutical reference standard for the determination of benzene residues in pharmaceutical products by various chromatography techniques.
These Secondary Standards are qualified as Certified Reference Materials. These are suitable for use in several analytical applications including but not limited to pharma release testing, pharma method development for qualitative and quantitative analyses, food and beverage quality control testing, and other calibration requirements.

Analysis Note

These secondary standards offer multi-traceability to the USP, EP (PhEur) and BP primary standards, where they are available.

Other Notes

This Certified Reference Material (CRM) is produced and certified in accordance with ISO 17034 and ISO/IEC 17025. All information regarding the use of this CRM can be found on the certificate of analysis.

Footnote

To see an example of a Certificate of Analysis for this material enter LRAC3166 in the slot below. This is an example certificate only and may not be the lot that you receive.

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Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Classifications

Aquatic Chronic 3 - Asp. Tox. 1 - Carc. 1A - Eye Irrit. 2 - Flam. Liq. 2 - Muta. 1B - Skin Irrit. 2 - STOT RE 1

Target Organs

Blood

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

12.2 °F

Flash Point(C)

-11 °C

Regulatory Information

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A general static-headspace gas chromatographic method for determination of residual benzene in oral liquid pharmaceutical products.
Liu H, et al.
Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 54(2), 417-421 (2011)
Factors that influence the determination of residual solvents in pharmaceuticals by automated static headspace sampling coupled to capillary GC-MS.
Mulligan KJ and McCauley H
Journal of Chromatographic Science, 33(1), 49-54 (1995)
Matrix media selection for the determination of residual solvents in pharmaceuticals by static headspace gas chromatography.
Urakami K, et al.
Journal of Chromatography A, 1057(1-2), 203-210 (2004)
David Galbraith et al.
Critical reviews in toxicology, 40 Suppl 2, 1-46 (2010-10-14)
Over the last century, benzene has been a well-studied chemical, with some acute and chronic exposures being directly associated with observed hematologic effects in humans and animals. Chronic heavy exposures to benzene have also been associated with acute myelogenous leukemia
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