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Span® 80

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viscosity 1000-2000 mPa.s (20 °C)

Synonym(s):

Sorbitan monooleate, Span® 80

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C24H44O6
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
428.60
Beilstein:
8172514
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12000000
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.21
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description

non-ionic

Quality Level

form

liquid

mol wt

428.60 g/mol

greener alternative product characteristics

Use of Renewable Feedstocks
Design for Degradation
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refractive index

n20/D 1.48 (lit.)

viscosity

1000-2000 mPa.s(20 °C)

HLB value

4.3±1.0

density

0.99 g/mL at 20 °C
0.986 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

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SMILES string

[H][C@@](O)(COC(=O)CCCCCCC\C=C/CCCCCCCC)[C@H]1OC[C@H](O)[C@H]1O

InChI

1S/C24H44O6/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-22(27)29-19-21(26)24-23(28)20(25)18-30-24/h9-10,20-21,23-26,28H,2-8,11-19H2,1H3/b10-9-/t20-,21+,23+,24+/m0/s1

InChI key

NWGKJDSIEKMTRX-AAZCQSIUSA-N

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General description

Span® 80 is a sorbitan ester series of surfactant. It is produced by esterification of one or more sorbitan hydroxyl group with fatty acid. It is hydrophobic in nature.[1] This non-ionic surfactant can be used to form oil-in-water emulsions and in combination with low HLB surfactants can form water-in-oil emulsions. EPA approved oil spill dispersant.
We are committed to bringing you Greener Alternative Products, which adhere to one or more of The 12 Principles of Green Chemistry. This product is biodegradable surfactant, thus aligns with "Use of Renewable Feedstocks" and "Design for Degradation" principles of Green Chemistry, and belongs to "12 principles aligned" category of our greener alternatives.

Application

Span® 80 was suitable as surfactant in the preparation of Poly(divinylbenzene) emulsion-derived (PolyHIPE) solid foam.[2] It may be suitable as emulsifier used to extract 24 samples of emulsion explosives with hexane which were analysed using GC-MS.[3]

Legal Information

Span is a registered trademark of Croda International PLC

Storage Class Code

10 - Combustible liquids

WGK

WGK 1

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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Michael E. Aulton, Kevin M.G. Taylor
Aulton's Pharmaceutics: The Design and Manufacture of Medicines, 445-445 (2013)
Morphology and surface area of emulsion-derived (PolyHIPE) solid foams prepared with oil-phase soluble porogenic solvents: Span 80 as surfactant.
Barbetta, Andrea, and Neil R. Cameron
Macromolecules, 37, 3188-3201 (2004)
Fei-Fei Tian et al.
Journal of chromatography. A, 1218(22), 3521-3528 (2011-04-19)
A novel approach for identification and determination of emulsion explosives with Span-80 (sorbitol mono-oleate) as the emulsifier and their postblast residues by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) has been developed. 24 kinds of emulsion explosives collected have been processed by transesterification
Daan Vorselen et al.
Nature communications, 11(1), 20-20 (2020-01-09)
Force exertion is an integral part of cellular behavior. Traction force microscopy (TFM) has been instrumental for studying such forces, providing spatial force measurements at subcellular resolution. However, the applications of classical TFM are restricted by the typical planar geometry.
Geneviève LeBel et al.
Applied and environmental microbiology, 80(17), 5484-5492 (2014-06-29)
Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is known to cause severe infections (meningitis, endocarditis, and septicemia) in pigs and is considered an emerging zoonotic agent. Antibiotics have long been used in the swine industry for disease treatment/prevention and growth promoters. This pattern

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