791741

Sodium acetate

anhydrous, free-flowing, Redi-Dri^™, ACS reagent, ≥99.0%

• Synonym(s): Acetic acid sodium salt
• Linear Formula: CH₃COONa
• CAS Number: 127-09-3
• Molecular Weight: 82.03
• Beilstein: 3595639
• EC Number: 204-823-8
• MDL number: MFCD00012459
• UNSPSC Code: 12352302
• PubChem Substance ID: 329768289
• NACRES: NA.21

Properties

• grade: ACS reagent; anhydrous
• Quality Level: 100
• product line: Redi-Dri^™
• Assay: ≥99.0%
• form: solid
• autoignition temp.: 1112 °F
• quality: free-flowing
• impurities: ≤0.01% insolubles
• loss: ≤1.0% loss on drying
• pH: 7.0-9.2 (25 °C, 5%)
• pKa: 4.76 (acetic acid)
• mp: >300 °C (dec.) (lit.)
• anion traces: chloride (Cl^-): ≤0.002%; phosphate (PO₄^3-): ≤0.001%; sulfate (SO₄^2-): ≤0.003%
• cation traces: Ca: ≤0.005%; Fe: ≤0.001%; Mg: ≤0.002%; heavy metals: ≤0.001% (by ICP-OES)
• SMILES string: [Na+].CC([O-])=O
• InChI: 1S/C2H4O2.Na/c1-2(3)4;/h1H3,(H,3,4);/q;+1/p-1
• InChI key: VMHLLURERBWHNL-UHFFFAOYSA-M

Description

General description

Sodium acetate is an inexpensive and non-toxic chemical substance that is widely used in industry as a food additive or as a base for the neutralization of reaction mixtures.

Application

Sodium acetate can be used as a reagent:

• In the Erlenmeyer-Plochl reaction to synthesize oxazolones by the condensation of aromatic aldehydes and hippuric acid.
• In palladium-catalyzed arylation of thiophenes using aryl halides.

It can also be used as a base to synthesize cinnamic acids via Perkin reaction.

Legal Information

Redi-Dri is a trademark of Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC

Safety Information

• Storage Class Code: 11 - Combustible Solids
• WGK: WGK 1
• Flash Point(F): Not applicable
• Flash Point(C): Not applicable