RTC000080

Acetonitrile

Pharmaceutical Secondary Standard; Certified Reference Material

• Synonym(s): Acetonitrile, Methyl cyanide, Anhydrous ACN, Dry MeCN
• Linear Formula: CH₃CN
• CAS Number: 75-05-8
• Molecular Weight: 41.05
• NACRES: NA.03
• UNSPSC Code: 41116107
• Beilstein/REAXYS Number: 741857
• MDL number: MFCD00001878

Properties

• Quality Segment: 300
• grade: certified reference material, pharmaceutical secondary standard
• agency: traceable to USP 1601340
• vapor density: 1.41 (vs air)
• vapor pressure: 72.8 mmHg ( 20 °C)
• CofA: current certificate can be downloaded
• autoignition temp.: 973 °F
• expl. lim.: 16 %
• packaging: pkg of 20 mL
• refractive index: n20/D 1.344 (lit.)
• bp: 81-82 °C (lit.)
• mp: −45 °C (lit.)
• density: 0.786 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)
• application(s): pharmaceutical small molecule
• format: neat
• storage temp.: 2-30°C
• SMILES string: CC#N
• InChI: 1S/C2H3N/c1-2-3/h1H3
• InChI key: WEVYAHXRMPXWCK-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Description

General description

Pharmaceutical secondary standards for application in quality control provide pharma laboratories and manufacturers with a convenient and cost-effective alternative to the preparation of in-house working standards

Analysis Note

These secondary standards offer multi-traceability to the USP and EP primary standards, where they are available.

Other Notes

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This Certified Reference Material (CRM) is produced and certified in accordance with ISO 17034 and ISO/IEC 17025. All information regarding the use of this CRM can be found on the certificate of analysis.

To see an example of a Certificate of Analysis for this material enter LRAB9799 in the Documents slot below. This is an example certificate only and may not be the lot that you receive.

Safety Information

• pictograms: GHS02,GHS07
• signalword: Danger
• hcodes: H225,H302 + H312 + H332,H319
• pcodes: P210 - P280 - P301 + P312 - P303 + P361 + P353 - P304 + P340 + P312 - P305 + P351 + P338
• Hazard Classifications: Acute Tox. 4 Dermal - Acute Tox. 4 Inhalation - Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Eye Irrit. 2 - Flam. Liq. 2
• Storage Class: 3 - Flammable liquids
• flash_point_f: 35.6 °F
• flash_point_c: 2 °C