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Sigma-Aldrich

Ethoxyacetic acid

98%

Synonym(s):

O-Ethylglycolic acid

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Linear Formula:
C2H5OCH2COOH
CAS Number:
627-03-2
Molecular Weight:
104.10
Beilstein:
1743037
EC Number:
210-978-2
MDL number:
MFCD00004310
UNSPSC Code:
12352100
PubChem Substance ID:
24848312
NACRES:
NA.22

Assay

98%

refractive index

n20/D 1.419 (lit.)

bp

97-100 °C/11 mmHg (lit.)

density

1.102 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

SMILES string

CCOCC(O)=O

InChI

1S/C4H8O3/c1-2-7-3-4(5)6/h2-3H2,1H3,(H,5,6)

InChI key

YZGQDNOIGFBYKF-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

Ethoxyacetic acid is biomarker of exposure to widely used industrial chemicals such as alkyl-substituted ethylene glycols and other aliphatic ethers.

Application

Ethoxyacetic acid is metabolite of glycol ether alkoxy acid and was used to evaluate its toxicity in embryonic stem cell test in mouse. It was used in zebrafish embryotoxicity test to study chemical toxicity after exposure of the complete vertebrate embryo during embryogenesis in ovo.

Biochem/physiol Actions

Ethoxyacetic acid induces testicular toxicity in rats in vivo .

Pictograms

Corrosion
GHS05

Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Statements

H314

Hazard Classifications

Eye Dam. 1 - Skin Corr. 1B

Storage Class Code

8A - Combustible corrosive hazardous materials

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

206.6 °F - closed cup

Flash Point(C)

97 °C - closed cup

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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J C Hoflack et al.
Mutation research, 341(4), 281-287 (1995-02-01)
Ethylene glycol ethers, their aldehyde and their acid metabolites were evaluated for their mutagenicity with the Ames test. The Salmonella typhimurium his- tester strains TA 97a, TA 98, TA 100 and TA 102 were used with and without rat S9
D Groeseneken et al.
International archives of occupational and environmental health, 61(4), 249-254 (1989-01-01)
A sensitive and specific method for the determination in urine of alkoxyacetic acids, the metabolites of ethylene glycol monoalkyl ethers, was developed by combining the advantages of two previously described methods. The acids were determined gas chromatographically as their pentafluorobenzylesters.
T Sakai et al.
International archives of occupational and environmental health, 64(7), 495-498 (1993-01-01)
In control subjects and workers exposed to glycol ethers and their acetates, we determined the urinary metabolites (three alkoxyacetic acids) by a simple and rapid method. Levels of urinary metabolites were significantly higher in the solvent workers than in the
Esther de Jong et al.
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology, 110(1), 117-124 (2009-04-30)
The embryonic stem cell test (EST) has been proposed as an in vitro assay that might reduce animal experimentation in regulatory developmental toxicology. So far, evaluation of the EST was not performed using compounds within distinct chemical classes. Evaluation within
T S Shih et al.
Occupational and environmental medicine, 56(7), 460-467 (1999-09-03)
To simplify the current preparation of samples, and to improve the specificity and reliability of the conventional analytical methods to measure urinary alkoxyacetic acids. Samples containing alkoxyacetic acids including methoxy, ethoxy, and butoxyacetic acids (MAA, EAA, and BAA) were acidified
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