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Substance Name: Ethylene dichloride [BSI:ISO]
RN: 107-06-2
UNII: 55163IJI47
InChIKey: WSLDOOZREJYCGB-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Molecular Formula

  • C2-H4-Cl2

Molecular Weight

  • 98.9596
 

Classification Codes

Classification Codes

  • Agricultural Chemical
  • Drug / Therapeutic Agent
  • Fungicide, Bactericide, Wood Preservative
  • Human Data
  • Insecticide
  • Mutation Data
  • Reproductive Effect
  • Skin / Eye Irritant
  • Tumor Data

Superlist Classification Codes

  • 2007 CERCLA Priority List, Rank: 85
  • 2011 CERCLA Priority List, Rank: 91
  • Overall Carcinogenic Evaluation: Group 2B
  • Reasonably Anticipated to be a Carcinogen
  • Reportable Quantity (RQ) = 100 lb
  • TWA (10 ppm); Not classifiable as a human carcinogen
  • TWA 50 mg/m3; Ceiling 100 mg/m3, peak 200 in 5 min in any

Names and Synonyms

Results Name

  • Ethylene dichloride [BSI:ISO]

Name of Substance

  • 1,2-Dichloroethane
  • Ethane, 1,2-dichloro-
  • Ethylene dichloride
  • Ethylene dichloride [BSI:ISO]

Synonyms

  • 1,2-Bichloroethane
  • 1,2-Dichloorethaan
  • 1,2-Dichloorethaan [Dutch]
  • 1,2-Dichlor-aethan
  • 1,2-Dichlor-aethan [German]
  • 1,2-Dichlorethane
  • 1,2-Dichloroethane
  • 1,2-Dicloroetano
  • 1,2-Dicloroetano [Italian]
  • 1,2-Ethylene dichloride
  • Aethylenchlorid
  • Aethylenchlorid [German]
  • AI3-01656
  • alpha,beta-Dichloroethane
  • Bichlorure d'ethylene
  • Bichlorure d'ethylene [French]
  • Borer sol
  • Brocide
  • Caswell No. 440
  • CCRIS 225
  • Chlorure d'ethylene
  • Chlorure d'ethylene [French]
  • Cloruro di ethene
  • Cloruro di ethene [Italian]
  • DCE
  • Destruxol borer-sol
  • Di-chlor-mulsion
  • Dichlor-Mulsion
  • Dichloremulsion
  • Dichloro-1,2-ethane
  • Dichloro-1,2-ethane [French]
  • Dichloroethylene
  • Dichlorure d'ethylene
  • Dichlorure d'ethylene [ISO-French]
  • Dutch liquid
  • Dutch oil
  • EC 203-458-1
  • EDC
  • EDC (halocarbon)
  • EINECS 203-458-1
  • ENT 1,656
  • EPA Pesticide Chemical Code 042003
  • Ethane dichloride
  • Ethane, 1,2-dichloro-
  • Ethyleendichloride
  • Ethyleendichloride [Dutch]
  • Ethylene chloride
  • Ethylene dichloride
  • Freon 150
  • Glycol dichloride
  • HCC 150
  • HSDB 65
  • NCI-C00511
  • RCRA waste number U077
  • RY Dichloro-1,2-ethane
  • sym-Dichloroethane
  • UNII-55163IJI47

Systematic Names

  • 1,2-Dichloroethane
  • Ethane, 1,2-dichloro-

Superlist Names

  • 1,2-Dichloroethane
  • 1,2-Ethylidene dichloride
  • Ethane, 1,2-dichloro-
  • Ethylene chloride
  • Ethylene dichloride
  • Ethylene dichloride [UN1184] [Flammable liquid]
  • RCRA waste no. U077
  • UN1184

Registry Numbers

CAS Registry Number

  • 107-06-2

FDA UNII

  • 55163IJI47

Other Registry Number

  • 52399-93-6

System Generated Number

  • 0000107062

Structure Descriptors

InChI

1S/C2H4Cl2/c3-1-2-4/h1-2H2

InChIKey

WSLDOOZREJYCGB-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Smiles

C(CCl)Cl

Toxicity

Organism Test Type Route Reported Dose (Normalized Dose) Effect Source
cat LC inhalation > 3000ppm/7H (3000ppm)   Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Vol. 84, Pg. 53, 1945.
dog LD50 oral 5700mg/kg (5700mg/kg) BEHAVIORAL: GENERAL ANESTHETIC

BEHAVIORAL: ATAXIA

SENSE ORGANS AND SPECIAL SENSES: LACRIMATION: EYE		 FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series. Vol. 48A, Pg. 91, 1970.
dog LDLo intravenous 175mg/kg (175mg/kg)   Quarterly Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacology. Vol. 7, Pg. 205, 1934.
guinea pig LCLo inhalation 1500ppm/7H (1500ppm) BEHAVIORAL: SOMNOLENCE (GENERAL DEPRESSED ACTIVITY)

SENSE ORGANS AND SPECIAL SENSES: LACRIMATION: EYE

KIDNEY, URETER, AND BLADDER: "CHANGES IN TUBULES (INCLUDING ACUTE RENAL FAILURE, ACUTE TUBULAR NECROSIS)"		 Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Vol. 84, Pg. 53, 1945.
guinea pig LDLo intraperitoneal 600mg/kg (600mg/kg)   American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal. Vol. 35, Pg. 21, 1974.
human LDLo oral 286mg/kg (286mg/kg) LIVER: FATTY LIVER DEGERATION

GASTROINTESTINAL: NAUSEA OR VOMITING

GASTROINTESTINAL: ULCERATION OR BLEEDING FROM STOMACH		 Casopis Lekaru Ceskych. Journal of Czech Physicians. Vol. 86, Pg. 203, 1947.
human TDLo oral 428mg/kg (428mg/kg) GASTROINTESTINAL: NAUSEA OR VOMITING

LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: COUGH

BEHAVIORAL: SOMNOLENCE (GENERAL DEPRESSED ACTIVITY)		 Sovetskaia Meditsina. Vol. 22(10), Pg. 132, 1958.
mammal (species unspecified) LC inhalation > 3000ppm/7H (3000ppm)   Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Vol. 84, Pg. 53, 1945.
man LDLo oral 714mg/kg (714mg/kg) LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: CYANOSIS

BEHAVIORAL: SOMNOLENCE (GENERAL DEPRESSED ACTIVITY)

CARDIAC: CHANGE IN RATE		 Klinische Wochenscrift. Vol. 48, Pg. 822, 1970.
man TCLo inhalation 4000ppm/1H (4000ppm) BEHAVIORAL: COMA

PERIPHERAL NERVE AND SENSATION: FLACCID PARALYSIS WITHOUT ANESTHESIA (USUALLY NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKAGE)

GASTROINTESTINAL: NAUSEA OR VOMITING		 Pesticide Chemicals Official Compendium, Association of the American Pesticide Control Officials, Inc., 1966. Vol. -, Pg. 500, 1966.
man TDLo oral 892mg/kg (892mg/kg) GASTROINTESTINAL: NAUSEA OR VOMITING

LIVER: "JAUNDICE, OTHER OR UNCLASSIFIED"

GASTROINTESTINAL: "HYPERMOTILITY, DIARRHEA"		 Wiadomosci Lekarskie. Medical News. Vol. 28, Pg. 983, 1975.
monkey LC50 inhalation 3000ppm/7H (3000ppm)   "Prehled Prumyslove Toxikologie; Organicke Latky," Marhold, J., Prague, Czechoslovakia, Avicenum, 1986Vol. -, Pg. 93, 1986.
mouse LCLo inhalation 5gm/m3/2H (5000mg/m3)   Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archiv fuer Experimentelle Pathologie und Pharmakologie. Vol. 141, Pg. 19, 1929.
mouse LD50 intraperitoneal 470mg/kg (470mg/kg)   Arzneimittel-Forschung. Drug Research. Vol. 11, Pg. 902, 1961.
mouse LD50 oral 413mg/kg (413mg/kg) LIVER: OTHER CHANGES

LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: OTHER CHANGES		 EHP, Environmental Health Perspectives. Vol. 43, Pg. 41, 1982.
mouse LDLo subcutaneous 380mg/kg (380mg/kg)   Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Vol. 84, Pg. 53, 1945.
pig LCLo inhalation 3000ppm/7H (3000ppm) SENSE ORGANS AND SPECIAL SENSES: LACRIMATION: EYE

LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: DYSPNEA

BEHAVIORAL: SOMNOLENCE (GENERAL DEPRESSED ACTIVITY)		 Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Vol. 84, Pg. 53, 1945.
rabbit LCLo inhalation 3000ppm/7H (3000ppm) LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: DYSPNEA

LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: OTHER CHANGES

BEHAVIORAL: SOMNOLENCE (GENERAL DEPRESSED ACTIVITY)		 Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Vol. 84, Pg. 53, 1945.
rabbit LD50 oral 860mg/kg (860mg/kg)   Guide to the Chemicals Used in Crop Protection. Vol. 6, Pg. 264, 1973.
rabbit LD50 skin 2800mg/kg (2800mg/kg) BEHAVIORAL: ATAXIA

SENSE ORGANS AND SPECIAL SENSES: LACRIMATION: EYE

BEHAVIORAL: GENERAL ANESTHETIC		 FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series. Vol. 48A, Pg. 91, 1970.
rabbit LDLo subcutaneous 1200mg/kg (1200mg/kg)   Quarterly Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacology. Vol. 7, Pg. 205, 1934.
rat LC50 inhalation 1000ppm/7H (1000ppm)   AMA Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine. Vol. 4, Pg. 482, 1951.
rat LC50 inhalation 1000ppm/7H (1000ppm) BEHAVIORAL: COMA

LUNGS, THORAX, OR RESPIRATION: CYANOSIS		 AMA Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine. Vol. 4, Pg. 482, 1951.
rat LD50 intraperitoneal 807mg/kg (807mg/kg)   Gigiena Truda i Professional'nye Zabolevaniya. Labor Hygiene and Occupational Diseases. Vol. 26(4), Pg. 26, 1982.
rat LD50 oral 670mg/kg (670mg/kg)   Farm Chemicals Handbook. Vol. -, Pg. C130, 1991.
rat LD50 subcutaneous 1gm/kg (1000mg/kg) BEHAVIORAL: GENERAL ANESTHETIC

SENSE ORGANS AND SPECIAL SENSES: LACRIMATION: EYE

BEHAVIORAL: ATAXIA		 FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series. Vol. 48A, Pg. 91, 1970.
rat LDLo intratracheal 120mg/kg (120mg/kg)   National Technical Information Service. Vol. OTS0520615,

Physical Properties

Physical Property Value Units Temp (deg C) Source
Melting Point -3.55E+01 deg C   EXP
Boiling Point 83.5 deg C   EXP
log P (octanol-water) 1.48 (none)   EXP
Water Solubility 8600 mg/L 25 EXP
Vapor Pressure 78.9 mm Hg 25 EXP
Henry's Law Constant 0.00118 atm-m3/mole 25 EXP
Atmospheric OH Rate Constant 2.48E-13 cm3/molecule-sec 25 EXP

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