Acetone

• Formula: C₃H₆O
• Molecular weight: 58.0791
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C3H6O/c1-3(2)4/h1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: CSCPPACGZOOCGX-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 67-64-1
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• Isotopologues:
  • Acetone-D6
• Other names: 2-Propanone; β-Ketopropane; Dimethyl ketone; Dimethylformaldehyde; Methyl ketone; Propanone; Pyroacetic ether; (CH3)2CO; Dimethylketal; Ketone propane; Ketone, dimethyl-; Chevron acetone; Rcra waste number U002; UN 1090; Sasetone; Propan-2-one; NSC 135802
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Data compiled by: Victor Talrose, Eugeny B. Stern, Antonina A. Goncharova, Natalia A. Messineva, Natalia V. Trusova, Margarita V. Efimkina

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References

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Bayliss and McRae, 1954
Bayliss, N.S.; McRae, E.G., Solvent effects in the spectra of acetone, crotonaldehyde, nitromethane and nitrobenzene, J. Phys. Chem., 1954, 58, 1006-1011. [all data]

Notes

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