Properties
- Melting point:
- 108-112 °C (lit.)
- Boiling point:
- 318.03°C (rough estimate)
- Density
- 1,683 g/cm3
- vapor density
- 6.35 (vs air)
- vapor pressure
- 39(x 10-5 mmHg) at 20 °C (Schwarzenbach et al., 1988)
- refractive index
- 1.4738 (estimate)
- Flash point:
- 11 °C
- storage temp.
- 2-8°C
- solubility
- Solubility Sparingly soluble in water; soluble in ethanol, benzene
- form
- crystals
- pka
- 3.96(at 15℃)
- color
- Light yellow
- PH Range
- 2.8(colourless)-4.7(yellow)
- Odor
- Sweet, musty
- Water Solubility
- 0.6 g/100 mL (18 ºC)
- Sensitive
- Light Sensitive
- Merck
- 14,3280
- BRN
- 1246142
- Henry's Law Constant
- 5.70 x 10-8(atm?m3/mol) at 5 °C (average derived from six field experiments, Lüttke and Levsen, 1997)
- Stability:
- Stable. Combustible.
- Major Application
- Display device, recording materials, inks, paints, method for preserving food, method for gene expression profiling, treatment of parasitic diseases, neurological diseases, epilepsy, cancer, keratin materials, neoplasms, infectious diseases, neutropenia, detecting chromosome aberrations, bacteria in gastrointestinal track
Safety Information
Use
The bacterial strain RB1, which is isolated by
enrichment cultivation with 2,4-dinitrophenol, degrades
this phenol into two aliphatic acids. One metabolite
results from the release of the 2-nitro group as nitrile,
with the production of aliphatic nitro compound,
3-nitroadipate. Then, the 3-nitro group is released
from this metabolite as nitrile. The other metabolite is
4,6-dinitrohexanoic acid possessing two nitro groups
from 2,4-dinitrophenol.