T81108

1,3,5-Trioxane

≥99%

• Synonym(s): Metaformaldehyde, Trioxymethylene, sym.-Trioxane
• Empirical Formula (Hill Notation): C₃H₆O₃
• CAS Number: 110-88-3
• Molecular Weight: 90.08
• Beilstein/REAXYS Number: 102769
• EC Number: 203-812-5
• MDL number: MFCD00006563
• UNSPSC Code: 12352100
• PubChem Substance ID: 24900501
• NACRES: NA.22

Properties

• Quality Level: 200
• assay: ≥99%
• autoignition temp.: 777 °F
• expl. lim.: 29 %
• mp: 59-62 °C (lit.)
• SMILES string: C1OCOCO1
• InChI: 1S/C3H6O3/c1-4-2-6-3-5-1/h1-3H2
• InChI key: BGJSXRVXTHVRSN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Description

Application

1,3,5-Trioxane is widely used as a source of anhydrous formaldehyde.
It can be used to synthesize:

• Polyoxymethylene and hyperbranched polyesters.
• Calixarenes such as calix[4]resorcinarene, calix[6]resorcinarene and para-tert-butylcalix[8] and [9]arene.
• Various natural products including (−)-motuporin, (+)-sundiversifolide, (+)-lyconadin A and (−)-lyconadin B.

Safety Information

• pictograms: GHS02,GHS08,GHS07
• signalword: Danger
• hcodes: H228,H335,H361d
• pcodes: P202 - P210 - P240 - P241 - P261 - P308 + P313
• Hazard Classifications: Flam. Sol. 1 - Repr. 2 - STOT SE 3
• target_organs: Respiratory system
• Storage Class: 4.1B - Flammable solid hazardous materials
• wgk_germany: WGK 1
• flash_point_f: 113.0 °F - closed cup
• flash_point_c: 45 °C - closed cup
• ppe: Eyeshields, Gloves, type P3 (EN 143) respirator cartridges