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Decahydronaphthalene, mixture of cis + trans

reagent grade, 98%

Synonym(s):

Decalin™

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C10H18
CAS Number:
91-17-8
Molecular Weight:
138.25
Beilstein:
878165
EC Number:
202-046-9
MDL number:
MFCD00004130
UNSPSC Code:
12352001
PubChem Substance ID:
329798742
NACRES:
NA.21

grade

reagent grade

Quality Level

100

vapor density

4.76 (vs air)

vapor pressure

42 mmHg ( 92 °C)
741 mmHg ( 188 °C)

Assay

98%

form

liquid

autoignition temp.

482 °F

expl. lim.

0.7-4.9 %, 100 °F

refractive index

n20/D 1.474 (lit.)

bp

189-191 °C (lit.)

mp

−125 °C (lit.)

density

0.896 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

SMILES string

C1CCC2CCCCC2C1

InChI

1S/C10H18/c1-2-6-10-8-4-3-7-9(10)5-1/h9-10H,1-8H2

InChI key

NNBZCPXTIHJBJL-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

Decahydronaphthalene, mixture of cis + trans is a bicyclic organic compound that can be used as an industrial solvent. It can be prepared by the complete catalytic hydrogenation of naphthalene or tetralin.

Application

Decahydronaphthalene, mixture of cis+ trans can be used as a solvent in the:
  • Distannoxane-catalyzed synthesis of aliphatic polyesters via polycondensation.
  • Intramolecular carbonyl-ene cyclocondensation of oxygenated o-phenylallylbenzaldehydes to synthesize substituted naphthalenes.

Legal Information

Decalin is a trademark of Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC

Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Statements

H226,H304,H314,H331,H410

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 3 Inhalation - Aquatic Acute 1 - Aquatic Chronic 1 - Asp. Tox. 1 - Eye Dam. 1 - Flam. Liq. 3 - Skin Corr. 1C

Storage Class Code

3 - Flammable liquids

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

134.6 °F - closed cup

Flash Point(C)

57 °C - closed cup

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Lin Zhu et al.
Journal of natural products, 75(4), 567-571 (2012-03-08)
Five new decalin derivatives (1-5), together with two known compounds (6 and 7), were isolated from the ethyl acetate extract of red yeast rice. Their structures were elucidated by means of NMR and mass spectroscopic analyses. Monascusic lactone A (1)
Joseph B Lim et al.
The journal of physical chemistry. B, 116(1), 203-210 (2011-12-06)
A modification of the CHARMM36 lipid force field (C36) for cholesterol, henceforth, called C36c, is reported. A fused ring compound, decalin, was used to model the steroid section of cholesterol. For decalin, C36 inaccurately predicts the heat of vaporization (~10
Franco Cataldo et al.
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy, 77(5), 998-1004 (2010-09-25)
Oleum (fuming sulphuric acid), a well known superacid, was used as medium for the generation of the radical cation of a series of selected PAHs. The resulting radical cation spectra were studied by electronic absorption spectroscopy. Not only common PAHs
Ken K Qian et al.
Journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 100(7), 2801-2815 (2011-02-22)
Spontaneous crystalline-to-amorphous phase transformation of organic or medicinal molecules in the presence of mesoporous materials has been observed, for which pathway was suggested to be via the vapor phase, that is, sublimation of the crystalline molecules followed by adsorption on
Mohit Kumar et al.
Nanoscale, 3(5), 2130-2133 (2011-03-30)
Naphthalene diimide (NDI) bolaamphiphilic molecules (1) self-assemble in water to form organic nanoparticles, which exhibit self-assembly induced preassociated excimer formation and hence an enhanced green fluorescence.
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