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Carbon disulfide

ReagentPlus®, low benzene, ≥99.9%

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
CS2
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
76.14
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
1098293
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352100
PubChem Substance ID:

vapor density

2.67 (vs air)

Quality Level

vapor pressure

5.83 psi

product line

ReagentPlus®

assay

≥99.9%

form

liquid

autoignition temp.

212 °F

purified by

glass distillation

expl. lim.

50 %

impurities

<0.05% water
<1 ppm Benzene

evapn. residue

<0.0003%

refractive index

n20/D 1.627 (lit.)

bp

46 °C (lit.)

mp

−112-−111 °C (lit.)

density

1.266 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

SMILES string

S=C=S

InChI

1S/CS2/c2-1-3

InChI key

QGJOPFRUJISHPQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Application

Carbon disulfide can be used as a solvent:
  • To synthesize hydroxynaphthyl ketones via Friedel-Crafts acylation and demethylation.
  • In the regioselective bromination of binaphthols.

Legal Information

ReagentPlus is a registered trademark of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Inhalation - Eye Irrit. 2 - Flam. Liq. 2 - Repr. 2 - Skin Irrit. 2 - STOT RE 1

target_organs

Peripheral nervous system,Central nervous system,Cardio-vascular system,Eyes

Storage Class

3 - Flammable liquids

wgk_germany

WGK 2

flash_point_f

-22.0 °F - closed cup

flash_point_c

-30 °C - closed cup


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Mark B van Eldijk et al.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 49(71), 7770-7772 (2013-06-19)
CS2 hydrolase, a zinc-dependent enzyme that converts carbon disulfide to carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, exists as a mixture of octameric ring and hexadecameric catenane forms in solution. A combination of size exclusion chromatography, multi-angle laser light scattering, and mass
Continuous direct spinning of fibers of single-walled carbon nanotubes with metallic chirality.
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In carotenoids internal conversion between the allowed (S(2)) and forbidden (S(1)) excited states occurs on a sub-picosecond timescale; the involvement of an intermediate excited state(s) (S(x)) mediating the process is controversial. Here we use high time resolution (sub-20 fs) broadband

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