Mirex

Base Information

• Chemical Name: Mirex
• CAS No.: 2385-85-5
• Deprecated CAS: 12557-88-9,12707-43-6,12766-04-0,56449-78-6,20594-49-4,12707-43-6,12766-04-0,20594-49-4,56449-78-6
• Molecular Formula: C10Cl12
• Molecular Weight: 545.546
• Hs Code.: 2903890030
• European Community (EC) Number: 219-196-6
• NSC Number: 124102,37656,26107
• UN Number: 2761
• UNII: Z917AN264P
• DSSTox Substance ID: DTXSID7020895
• Nikkaji Number: J8.588J
• Wikipedia: Mirex
• Wikidata: Q419578
• NCI Thesaurus Code: C44404
• Metabolomics Workbench ID: 74830
• ChEMBL ID: CHEMBL442231
• Mol file: 2385-85-5.mol

Synonyms:Mirex

Chemical Property of Mirex

Chemical Property:

• Melting Point: 485℃
• Refractive Index: 1.6000 (estimate)
• Boiling Point: 421.1°Cat760mmHg
• Flash Point: 201.9°C
• PSA: 0.00000
• Density: 2.25g/cm³
• LogP: 6.22300
• Storage Temp.: APPROX 4°C
• Solubility.: Chloroform (Slightly)
• Water Solubility.: 85ug/L(25 oC)
• XLogP3: 5.3
• Hydrogen Bond Donor Count: 0
• Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count: 0
• Rotatable Bond Count: 0
• Exact Mass: 545.617382
• Heavy Atom Count: 22
• Complexity: 567
• Transport DOT Label: Poison

Purity/Quality:

99% ^*data from raw suppliers

Mirex ^*data from reagent suppliers

Safty Information:

• Pictogram(s): Xn,N,F,Xi
• Hazard Codes: Xn,N,F,Xi
• Statements: 21/22-40-50/53-62-63-64-36-20/21/22-11-67-66
• Safety Statements: 13-36/37-46-60-61-36-26-16

MSDS Files:

SDS file from LookChem

Total 1 MSDS from other Authors

Useful:

• Chemical Classes: Pesticides -> Organochlorine Pesticides
• Canonical SMILES: C12(C3(C4(C5(C3(C(C1(C5(C2(C4(Cl)Cl)Cl)Cl)Cl)(Cl)Cl)Cl)Cl)Cl)Cl)Cl
• Description: Mirex and chlordecone are two separate, but chemically similar, manufactured insecticides that do not occur naturally in the environment. Mirex is a white crystalline solid, and chlordecone is a tan-white crystalline solid. Both chemicals are odourless. Mirex and chlordecone have not been manufactured or used in the United States since 1978. Mirex was used to control fire ants and as a flame retardant in plastics, rubber, paint, paper, and electrical goods from 1959 to 1972. Chlordecone was used as an insecticide on tobacco, ornamental shrubs, bananas, and citrus trees and in ant and roach traps. Mirex was sold as a flame retardant under the trade name Dechlorane, and chlordecone was also known as Kepone. Mirex and chlordecone break down slowly in the environment, and they may stay for years in soil and water. Mirex is not readily decomposed chemically or biologically and is relatively persistent.
• Uses: An insecticide for fire ants. Formerly used as a fire retardant for plastics, rubber, paint, paper, electric goods. Reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen. Formerly as fire retardant for plastics, rubber, paint, paper, electrical goods; insecticide for fire ants.

Technology Process of Mirex

There total 6 articles about Mirex which guide to synthetic route it. The literature collected by LookChem mainly comes from the sharing of users and the free literature resources found by Internet computing technology. We keep the original model of the professional version of literature to make it easier and faster for users to retrieve and use. At the same time, we analyze and calculate the most feasible synthesis route with the highest yield for your reference as below:

synthetic route:

Reference yield:

hexachlorocyclopentadiene (77-47-4) → mirex (2385-85-5)

Guidance literature:

With aluminium trichloride; at 90 - 95 ℃;

Reference yield:

1,1,2,3,3-pentachloro-1-propene (1600-37-9) + Trichloroethylene (79-01-6) → mirex (2385-85-5)

Guidance literature:

With aluminium trichloride; chloroform; at 50 ℃;

Reference yield:

4H,5H-octachloro-pent-1-ene (50785-18-7) → mirex (2385-85-5)

Guidance literature:

With aluminium trichloride; dichloromethane;

upstream raw materials:

1,1,2,3,3-pentachloro-1-propene

Trichloroethylene

4H,5H-octachloro-pent-1-ene

3H,4H-octachloro-pent-1-ene

Downstream raw materials:

photomirex

chloride

carbonate^(2-)

Sulfate

Refernces

• 1、 McBee et al.. "". . p. 1511. Retrieved 1956.