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3,6-Dimethyl-1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione

99%

Synonym(s):

DL-Lactide, rac-Lactide, Lactide

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C6H8O4
CAS Number:
95-96-5
Molecular Weight:
144.13
EC Number:
202-468-3
MDL number:
MFCD00011685
UNSPSC Code:
12352100
PubChem Substance ID:
24858300
NACRES:
NA.22

Assay

99%

form

crystals

bp

142 °C/8 mmHg (lit.)

mp

116-119 °C

storage temp.

2-8°C

SMILES string

CC1OC(=O)C(C)OC1=O

InChI

1S/C6H8O4/c1-3-5(7)10-4(2)6(8)9-3/h3-4H,1-2H3

InChI key

JJTUDXZGHPGLLC-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

3,6-Dimethyl-1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione (or rac-lactide), is the 50:50 racemic mixture of D- and L-Lactide. Rac-lactide is a lactone derived from lactic acid that has attracted great interest in academia and commercial applications, as it is derived from abundant renewable resources. Rac-lactide can be ready polymerized via ring-opening polymerization, using a variety of metal or organocatalysts, yielding poly(D,L-lactide). While the resulting polymer is generally amorphous, the use of stereospecific catalysts can lead to heterotactic PLA, which exhibits some degree of crystallinity.

Application

3,6-Dimethyl-1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione can be used as a reactant:
  • To synthesize multi-block copolymers of polylactide and polycarbonate.
  • In the aluminum-catalyzed polymerization of propene oxide, lactide, and phthalic anhydride to produce multi-block polyesters.

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GHS07

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Warning

Hazard Statements

H319

Hazard Classifications

Eye Irrit. 2

Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 2

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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Tetrahedron Letters, 47, 6517-6517 (2006)
Vibrational Optical Activity of (3 S, 6 S)-3, 6-Dimethyl-1, 4-dioxane-2, 5-dione.
Tam CN, et al.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 118(42), 10285-10293 (1996)
Lu Qin et al.
Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003), 48(32), 12315-12325 (2019-07-26)
In this paper we report a series of Al(iii) complexes supported by N,O-bidentate β-pyrazyl functionalized enolate ligands HL1-HL5 (L = (6-Me-2,5-C4H2N2)-CH[double bond, length as m-dash]C(R)-O-), (R = tBu, Ph, p-tolyl, p-OMePh, o-tolyl) and their exploitation for the ring-opening polymerization of
Hendrik Vögeling et al.
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications, 103, 109749-109749 (2019-07-28)
Catheter related infections are causing one third of all blood stream infections. The mortality of those infections is very high and the gold standard for catheter related blood stream infections (CR-BSI) is still the removal of the catheter and systemic
Optically active supramolecular poly (L-lactide) s end-capped with terpyridine.
Heller M and Schubert US.
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 22(16), 1358-1363 (2001)
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