Product code RXSOL-19-1165-025Category Solvent Chemicals

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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) and in India (Kandla, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Chennai and Mumbai), and we also supply to South Africa.