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EC number: 209-750-5 | CAS number: 592-34-7
Hydrolysis
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Description of key information
Butyl chloroformate is expected to rapidly hydrolyse in contact with water to form butanol (CAS 71-36-3), hydrogen chloride (CAS 7647-01-0) and carbon dioxide (CAS 124-38-9).
Key value for chemical safety assessment
Additional information
No experimental data on the hydrolysis of butyl chloroformate is available. For the chloroformates category, which includes butyl chloroformate, hydrolysis is the primary reaction in aqueous systems and has been shown to occur very quickly with half-lives of ≤ 30 min (OECD SIDS 2010). All category members hydrolyze in the presence of water or moisture to form hydrochloric acid (CAS 7647 -01 -0), carbon dioxide (CAS 124 -38 -9) and the corresponding alcohol. In the case of butyl chloroformate the corrsponding alcohol is butanol (CAS 71 -36 -3) which at its turn is considered to be hydrolytically stable as primary alcohols and ethers are generally known to be resistant to hydrolysis (OECD, 2004).
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