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Overview
PURE EPICHLORHYDRIN used extensively as an industrial intermediate, a laboratory reagent, and as an insecticide.
Product description
Epichlorohydrin ECH is one of the more commercially important aliphatic epoxides used extensively as an industrial intermediate, and as an insecticide.
Epichlorohydrin ECH is a volatile, colourless liquid with an ethereal odour.
Applications
| PRODUCT NAME | : | EPICHLOROHYDRIN |
| CAS number | : | 106-89-8 |
| UN number | : | 2023 |
| Formula | : | C3H5OC1 |
| CHOLOROFORM LIKE | : | |
| Solubility in water | : | SLIGHTLY |
| Density | : | 1.176 at 20oC |
| Boiling point | : | 115 oC |
| Melting point | : | -57 oC |
| Viscosity | : | 1.12 cp at 20 oC |
| Flashpoint | : | 34 oC |
| Explosive limits | : | 3.8 – 21 Vol% |
| Vapour pressure | : | 17 mbar at 20oC |
| Skin absorption/irritation | : | YES |
| TLV Country NL Year 1995 | : | 1 S ppm 4 S mg/m3 |
| Pollution category 1994 | : | A |
Dosage
Epichlorohydrin, which is colourless and poorly soluble in water and has a pungent, chloroform-like odour, is converted to 3-chloro-1,2-propanediol (α-chlorohydrin) in an aqueous milieu at a pH of 7 and 20°C
Also known as
Epichlorohydrin as an Insecticide, ECH, 1-chloro-2,3-epoxypropane, Chloromethyloxirane, 3-Chloropropylene Oxide
Notes
Epichlorohydrin is a highly reactive electrophilic compound and is used in the production of glycerol, plastics, epoxy glues and resins, epoxy diluents and elastomers
Where we supply
Oman. Stocked at our warehouse in Barka, South Al Batinah, and supplied to Muscat, Ruwi, Mutrah, Seeb, Rusayl, Barka, Sohar, Shinas, Saham, Buraimi, Nizwa, Ibri, Sur, Salalah, Duqm, Khasab and every other governorate.
Ports and free zones. Port Sultan Qaboos (Mutrah), Mina Al Fahal, Sohar Port and Freezone, Port of Salalah and Salalah Free Zone, Port of Duqm and the Duqm Special Economic Zone, Port of Sur, Khasab Port and Al Mazunah Free Zone.
Industrial areas. Rusayl, Sohar, Barka (Sanaya), Raysut (Salalah), Nizwa, Sur, Buraimi and Duqm industrial estates, Knowledge Oasis Muscat, and oil and gas sites across Oman.
Beyond Oman. We have branches in the UAE (including Fujairah), India (Kandla, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Chennai and Mumbai), Kenya (Nairobi) and Canada, and we also supply to South Africa.
