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dimethyl sulfoxide
Sign in to saveAlso known as Syntexan, DMSO, S(O)Me2, (CH3)2SO, Dimethyli sulfoxidum, SQ-9453, Rimso-50, Rimso 50
organosulfur chemical compound used as a solvent
OverviewAI-generated
Dimethyl sulfoxide is a chemical compound with the formula C₂H₆OS. Its IUPAC name is methylsulfinylmethane. The substance has a mass of 78.014 and a density of 1.1004. It melts at 18.52 and boils at 189. The electric dipole moment is 3.96, while the pKa is 35.1. Dynamic viscosity measures 0.001996, and the ionization energy is 9.01.
In terms of molecular properties, dimethyl sulfoxide has an xlogp of -0.6 and a topological polar surface area of 36.3. It contains zero hydrogen bond donors and two hydrogen bond acceptors, with a charge of 0. The canonical SMILES representation is CS(=O)C.
The compound is referenced by 678 other encyclopedia articles. Additionally, there are 28218 entries associated with it in the PubMed database.
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Chemical data
- Formula
- C2H6OS
- Molecular weight
- 78.14 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- methylsulfinylmethane
- SMILES
- CS(=O)C
- InChIKey
- IAZDPXIOMUYVGZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- -0.6
- Polar surface area
- 36.3 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Research
28,218 papers- Dimethyl sulphoxide: a review of its applications in cell biology.Bioscience reports · 1994
- The influence of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) on metabolic activity and morphology of melanoma cell line WM-266-4.Cellular and molecular biology (Noisy-le-Grand, France) · 2018
- Effect of intratympanic dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) in an in vivo model of cisplatin-related ototoxicity.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2014
- Ion transport through dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) induced transient water pores in cell membranes.Molecular membrane biology · 2012
- Dimethyl sulphoxide modifies growth and senescence and induces the non-revertible petite phenotype in yeast.FEMS yeast research · 2016
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Encyclopedic overview
A sample of dimethyl sulfoxide
Names
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dimethyl sulfoxide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.