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methyl propyl ether
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Methoxypropane, or methyl propyl ether, is an ether once used as a general anaesthetic. It is a clear colorless flammable liquid with a boiling point of 38.8 °C.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C4H10O
- Molecular weight
- 74.12 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 1-methoxypropane
- SMILES
- CCCOC
- InChIKey
- VNKYTQGIUYNRMY-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 1.2
- Polar surface area
- 9.2 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 74.073
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- chemical formula
- C₄H₁₀O
- canonical SMILES
- CCCOC
- found in taxon
- Basella alba
- electric dipole moment
- 1.107
- ionization energy
- 9.42
- boiling point
- 39.1
- Commons category
- 1-Methoxypropane
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Methoxypropane, or methyl propyl ether, is an ether once used as a general anaesthetic. It is a clear colorless flammable liquid with a boiling point of 38.8 °C.
Marketed under the trade names Metopryl and Neothyl, methoxypropane was used as an alternative to diethyl ether because of its greater potency. Its use as an anaesthetic has since been supplanted by modern halogenated ethers which are much less flammable.
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