Acetone

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Acetone [1]
Full structural formula of acetone with dimensions Acetone-CRC-MW-ED-dimensions-2D-Vector.svg
Full structural formula of acetone with dimensions
Skeletal formula of acetone Acetone-2D-skeletal.svg
Skeletal formula of acetone
Ball-and-stick model of acetone Acetone-3D-balls.png
Ball-and-stick model of acetone
Space-filling model of acetone Acetone-3D-vdW.png
Space-filling model of acetone
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Names
IUPAC name
Acetone [2]
Preferred IUPAC name
Propan-2-one [3]
Systematic IUPAC name
2-Propanone
Other names
  • Acetonum (Latin pronunciation: [aˈkeːtonum] )
  • Dimethyl ketone [4]
  • Dimethyl carbonyl
  • Ketone propane [5]
  • β-Ketopropane [4]
  • Propanone [6]
  • 2-Propanone [4]
  • Pyroacetic spirit (archaic) [7]
  • Spirit of Saturn (archaic) [8]
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
3DMet
635680
ChEBI
ChEMBL
ChemSpider
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EC Number
  • 200-662-2
1466
KEGG
MeSH Acetone
PubChem CID
RTECS number
  • AL3150000
UNII
UN number 1090
  • InChI=1S/C3H6O/c1-3(2)4/h1-2H3 Yes check.svgY
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  • InChI=1/C3H6O/c1-3(2)4/h1-2H3
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  • CC(=O)C
Properties
C3H6O
Molar mass 58.080 g·mol−1
AppearanceColourless liquid
Odor Pungent, fruity [9]
Density 0.7845 g/cm3 (25 °C) [10]
Melting point −94.9 °C (−138.8 °F; 178.2 K) [10]
Boiling point 56.08 °C (132.94 °F; 329.23 K) [10]
Miscible [10]
Solubility Miscible in benzene, diethyl ether, methanol, chloroform, ethanol [10]
log P −0.24 [11]
Vapor pressure
  • 9.39 kPa (0 °C)
  • 30.6 kPa (25 °C)
  • 374 kPa (100 °C)
  • 2.8 MPa (200 °C) [4]
Acidity (pKa)
−33.8·10−6 cm3/mol [14]
Thermal conductivity 0.161 W/(m·K) (25 °C) [15]
1.3588 (20 °C) [10]
Viscosity 0.306 mPa·s (25 °C) [16]
Structure
Trigonal planar at C2
Dihedral at C2
2.88 D [17]
Thermochemistry [18]
126.3 J/(mol·K)
Std molar
entropy (S⦵298)
199.8 J/(mol·K)
−248.4 kJ/mol
−1.79 MJ/mol
Hazards
Occupational safety and health (OHS/OSH):
Main hazards
Highly flammable
GHS labelling:
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Danger
H225, H302, H319, H336, H373
P210, P235, P260, P305+P351+P338
NFPA 704 (fire diamond)
NFPA 704.svgHealth 1: Exposure would cause irritation but only minor residual injury. E.g. turpentineFlammability 3: Liquids and solids that can be ignited under almost all ambient temperature conditions. Flash point between 23 and 38 °C (73 and 100 °F). E.g. gasolineInstability 0: Normally stable, even under fire exposure conditions, and is not reactive with water. E.g. liquid nitrogenSpecial hazards (white): no code
1
3
0
Flash point −20 °C (−4 °F; 253 K) [19]
465 [19]  °C (869 °F; 738 K)
Explosive limits 2.5–12.8% [19]
250 ppm [20] (STEL), 500 ppm [20] (C)
Lethal dose or concentration (LD, LC):
  • 5800 mg/kg (rat, oral)
  • 3000 mg/kg (mouse, oral)
  • 5340 mg/kg (rabbit, oral) [21]
20,702 ppm (rat, 8 h) [21]
45,455 ppm (mouse, 1 h) [21]
NIOSH (US health exposure limits):
PEL (Permissible)
1000 ppm (2400 mg/m3) [5]
REL (Recommended)
TWA 250 ppm (590 mg/m3) [5]
IDLH (Immediate danger)
2500 ppm [5]
Related compounds
Related compounds
Supplementary data page
Acetone (data page)
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Acetone (2-propanone or dimethyl ketone) is an organic compound with the formula (CH3)2CO. [22] It is the simplest and smallest ketone (>C=O). It is a colorless, highly volatile, and flammable liquid with a characteristic pungent odour, very reminiscent of the smell of pear drops.

Contents

Acetone is miscible with water and serves as an important organic solvent in industry, home, and laboratory. About 6.7 million tonnes were produced worldwide in 2010, mainly for use as a solvent and for production of methyl methacrylate and bisphenol A, which are precursors to widely used plastics. [23] [24] It is a common building block in organic chemistry. It serves as a solvent in household products such as nail polish remover and paint thinner. It has volatile organic compound (VOC)-exempt status in the United States. [25]

Acetone is produced and disposed of in the human body through normal metabolic processes. It is normally present in blood and urine. People with diabetic ketoacidosis produce it in larger amounts. Ketogenic diets that increase ketone bodies (acetone, β-hydroxybutyric acid and acetoacetic acid) in the blood are used to counter epileptic attacks in children who suffer from refractory epilepsy. [26]

Name

From the 17th century, and before modern developments in organic chemistry nomenclature, acetone was given many different names. They included "spirit of Saturn", which was given when it was thought to be a compound of lead and, later, "pyro-acetic spirit" and "pyro-acetic ester". [8]

Prior to the name "acetone" being coined by French chemists (see below), it was named "mesit" (from the Greek μεσίτης, meaning mediator) by Carl Reichenbach, who also claimed that methyl alcohol consisted of mesit and ethyl alcohol. [27] [8] Names derived from mesit include mesitylene and mesityl oxide which were first synthesised from acetone.

Unlike many compounds with the acet- prefix which have a 2-carbon chain, acetone has a 3-carbon chain. That has caused confusion because there cannot be a ketone with 2 carbons. The prefix refers to acetone's relation to vinegar (acetum in Latin, also the source of the words "acid" and "acetic"), rather than its chemical structure. [28]

History

Acetone was first produced by Andreas Libavius in 1606 by distillation of lead(II) acetate. [29] [30]

In 1832, French chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas and German chemist Justus von Liebig determined the empirical formula for acetone. [31] [32] In 1833, French chemists Antoine Bussy and Michel Chevreul decided to name acetone by adding the suffix -one to the stem of the corresponding acid (viz, acetic acid) just as a similarly prepared product of what was then confused with margaric acid was named margarone. [33] [28] By 1852, English chemist Alexander William Williamson realized that acetone was methyl acetyl; [34] the following year, the French chemist Charles Frédéric Gerhardt concurred. [35] In 1865, the German chemist August Kekulé published the modern structural formula for acetone. [36] [37] Johann Josef Loschmidt had presented the structure of acetone in 1861, [38] but his privately published booklet received little attention. During World War I, Chaim Weizmann developed the process for industrial production of acetone (Weizmann Process). [39]

Production

In 2010, the worldwide production capacity for acetone was estimated at 6.7 million tonnes per year. [40] With 1.56 million tonnes per year, the United States had the highest production capacity, [41] followed by Taiwan and China. The largest producer of acetone is INEOS Phenol, owning 17% of the world's capacity, with also significant capacity (7–8%) by Mitsui, Sunoco and Shell in 2010. [40] INEOS Phenol also owns the world's largest production site (420,000 tonnes/annum) in Beveren (Belgium). Spot price of acetone in summer 2011 was 1100–1250 USD/tonne in the United States. [42]

Current method

Acetone is produced directly or indirectly from propene. Approximately 83% of acetone is produced via the cumene process; [24] as a result, acetone production is tied to phenol production. In the cumene process, benzene is alkylated with propylene to produce cumene, which is oxidized by air to produce phenol and acetone:

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Other processes involve the direct oxidation of propylene (Wacker-Hoechst process), or the hydration of propylene to give 2-propanol, which is oxidized (dehydrogenated) to acetone. [24]

Older methods

Previously, acetone was produced by the dry distillation of acetates, for example calcium acetate in ketonic decarboxylation.

After that time, during World War I, acetone was produced using acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation with Clostridium acetobutylicum bacteria, which was developed by Chaim Weizmann (later the first president of Israel) in order to help the British war effort, [24] [43] in the preparation of Cordite. [44] This acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation was eventually abandoned when newer methods with better yields were found. [24]

Chemical properties

The flame temperature of pure acetone is 1980 °C. [45]

Like most ketones, acetone exhibits the keto–enol tautomerism in which the nominal keto structure (CH3)2C=O of acetone itself is in equilibrium with the enol isomer (CH3)C(OH)=(CH2) (prop-1-en-2-ol). In acetone vapor at ambient temperature, only 2.4×10−7% of the molecules are in the enol form. [46]

Acetone KetoEnol.svg

In the presence of suitable catalysts, two acetone molecules also combine to form the compound diacetone alcohol (CH3)C=O(CH2)C(OH)(CH3)2, which on dehydration gives mesityl oxide (CH3)C=O(CH)=C(CH3)2. This product can further combine with another acetone molecule, with loss of another molecule of water, yielding phorone and other compounds. [47]

Acetone is a weak Lewis base that forms adducts with soft acids like I2 and hard acids like phenol. Acetone also forms complexes with divalent metals. [48] [49]

Polymerisation

One might expect acetone to also form polymers and (possibly cyclic) oligomers of two types. In one type, units could be acetone molecules linked by ether bridges −O− derived from opening of the double bond, to give a polyketal-like (PKA) chain [−O−C(CH3)2−]n. The other type could be obtained through repeated aldol condensation, with one molecule of water removed at each step, yielding a poly(methylacetylene) (PMA) chain [−CH=C(CH3)−]n. [50]

The conversion of acetone to a polyketal (PKA) would be analogous to the formation of paraformaldehyde from formaldehyde, and of trithioacetone from thioacetone. In 1960, Soviet chemists observed that the thermodynamics of this process is unfavourable for liquid acetone, so that it (unlike thioacetone and formol) is not expected to polymerise spontaneously, even with catalysts. However, they observed that the thermodynamics became favourable for crystalline solid acetone at the melting point (−96 °C). They claimed to have obtained such a polymer (a white elastic solid, soluble in acetone, stable for several hours at room temperature) by depositing vapor of acetone, with some magnesium as a catalyst, onto a very cold surface. [51] In 1962, Wasaburo Kawai reported the synthesis of a similar product, from liquid acetone cooled to −70 to −78 °C, using n-butyllithium or triethylaluminium as catalysts. He claimed that the infrared absorption spectrum showed the presence of −O− linkages but no C=O groups. [52] However, conflicting results were obtained later by other investigators. [50]

Structure of possible acetone polymer Acetone-polymerisation.svg
Structure of possible acetone polymer

The PMA type polymers of acetone would be equivalent to the product of polymerisation of propyne, except for a keto end group. [50]

Natural occurrence

Humans exhale several milligrams of acetone per day. It arises from decarboxylation of acetoacetate. [53] [54] Small amounts of acetone are produced in the body by the decarboxylation of ketone bodies. Certain dietary patterns, including prolonged fasting and high-fat low-carbohydrate dieting, can produce ketosis, in which acetone is formed in body tissue. Certain health conditions, such as alcoholism and diabetes, can produce ketoacidosis, uncontrollable ketosis that leads to a sharp, and potentially fatal, increase in the acidity of the blood. Since it is a byproduct of fermentation, acetone is a byproduct of the distillery industry. [53]

Metabolism

Acetone can then be metabolized either by CYP2E1 via methylglyoxal to D-lactate and pyruvate, and ultimately glucose/energy, or by a different pathway via propylene glycol to pyruvate, lactate, acetate (usable for energy) and propionaldehyde. [55] [56] [57]

Uses

Industrial

About a third of the world's acetone is used as a solvent, and a quarter is consumed as acetone cyanohydrin, a precursor to methyl methacrylate. [23]

Solvent

Acetone is a good solvent for many plastics and some synthetic fibers. It is used for thinning polyester resin, cleaning tools used with it, and dissolving two-part epoxies and superglue before they harden. It is used as one of the volatile components of some paints and varnishes. As a heavy-duty degreaser, it is useful in the preparation of metal prior to painting or soldering, and to remove rosin flux after soldering (to prevent adhesion of dirt and electrical leakage and perhaps corrosion or for cosmetic reasons), although it may attack some electronic components, such as polystyrene capacitors. [58]

Although itself flammable, acetone is used extensively as a solvent for the safe transportation and storage of acetylene, which cannot be safely pressurized as a pure compound. Vessels containing a porous material are first filled with acetone followed by acetylene, which dissolves into the acetone. One litre of acetone can dissolve around 250 litres of acetylene at a pressure of 10 bars (1.0 MPa). [59] [60]

Acetone is used as a solvent by the pharmaceutical industry and as a denaturant in denatured alcohol. [61] Acetone is also present as an excipient in some pharmaceutical drugs. [62] [ needs update ]

Chemical intermediate

Acetone is used to synthesize methyl methacrylate. It begins with the initial conversion of acetone to acetone cyanohydrin via reaction with hydrogen cyanide (HCN):

In a subsequent step, the nitrile is hydrolyzed to the unsaturated amide, which is esterified:

The third major use of acetone (about 20%) [23] is synthesizing bisphenol A. Bisphenol A is a component of many polymers such as polycarbonates, polyurethanes, and epoxy resins. The synthesis involves the condensation of acetone with phenol:

Many millions of kilograms of acetone are consumed in the production of the solvents methyl isobutyl alcohol and methyl isobutyl ketone. These products arise via an initial aldol condensation to give diacetone alcohol. [24]

Condensation with acetylene gives 2-methylbut-3-yn-2-ol, precursor to synthetic terpenes and terpenoids. [63]

Laboratory

Chemistry

A variety of organic reactions employ acetone as a polar, aprotic solvent. It is critical in the Jones oxidation. Because acetone is cheap, volatile, and dissolves or decomposes with most laboratory chemicals, an acetone rinse is the standard technique to remove solid residues from laboratory glassware before a final wash. [64] Despite common desiccatory use, acetone dries only via bulk displacement and dilution. It forms no azeotropes with water (see azeotrope tables). [65]

Acetone freezes well below −78 °C. An acetone/dry ice mixture cools many low-temperature reactions. [66]

Physics

Under ultraviolet light, acetone fluoresces. Fluid flow experiments use its vapor as a tracer. [67]

Biology

Proteins precipitate in acetone. [68] The chemical modifies peptides, both at α- or ε-amino groups, and in a poorly understood but rapid modification of certain glycine residues. [68]

In pathology, acetone helps find lymph nodes in fatty tissues (such as the mesentery) for tumor staging. [69] The liquid dissolves the fat and hardens the nodes, making them easier to find. [70]

Acetone also removes certain stains from microscope slides. [71]

Medical

Dermatologists use acetone with alcohol for acne treatments to chemically peel dry skin. Common agents used today for chemical peeling are salicylic acid, glycolic acid, azelaic acid, 30% salicylic acid in ethanol, and trichloroacetic acid (TCA). Prior to chemexfoliation, the skin is cleaned and excess fat removed in a process called defatting. Acetone, hexachlorophene, or a combination of these agents was used in this process. [72]

Acetone has been shown to have anticonvulsant effects in animal models of epilepsy, in the absence of toxicity, when administered in millimolar concentrations. [73] It has been hypothesized that the high-fat low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet used clinically to control drug-resistant epilepsy in children works by elevating acetone in the brain. [73] Because of their higher energy requirements, children have higher acetone production than most adults – and the younger the child, the higher the expected production. This indicates that children are not uniquely susceptible to acetone exposure. External exposures are small compared to the exposures associated with the ketogenic diet. [74]

Domestic and other niche uses

Make-up artists use acetone to remove skin adhesive from the netting of wigs and mustaches by immersing the item in an acetone bath, then removing the softened glue residue with a stiff brush. [75] Acetone is a main ingredient in many nail polish removers because it breaks down nail polish. [76] It is used for all types of nail polish removal, like gel nail polish, dip powder and acrylic nails. [77]

Acetone is often used for vapor polishing of printing artifacts on 3D-printed models printed with ABS plastic. The technique, called acetone vapor bath smoothing, involves placing the printed part in a sealed chamber containing a small amount of acetone, and heating to around 80 degrees Celsius for ten minutes. This creates a vapor of acetone in the container. The acetone condenses evenly all over the part, causing the surface to soften and liquefy. Surface tension then smooths the semi-liquid plastic. When the part is removed from the chamber, the acetone component evaporates leaving a glassy-smooth part free of striation, patterning, and visible layer edges, common features in untreated 3D printed parts. [78]

Acetone efficiently removes felt-tipped pen marks from glass and metals.

Safety

Acetone's most hazardous property is its extreme flammability. In small amounts, acetone burns with a dull blue flame; in larger amounts, fuel evaporation causes incomplete combustion and a bright yellow flame. When hotter than acetone's flash point of −20 °C (−4 °F), air mixtures of 2.5‑12.8% acetone (by volume) may explode or cause a flash fire. Vapors can flow along surfaces to distant ignition sources and flash back.

Static discharge may also ignite acetone vapors, though acetone has a very high ignition initiation energy and accidental ignition is rare. [79] Acetone's auto-ignition temperature is the relatively high 465 °C (869 °F); [19] moreover, auto-ignition temperature depends upon experimental conditions, such as exposure time, and has been quoted as high as 535 °C. [80] Even pouring or spraying acetone over red-glowing coal will not ignite it, due to the high vapour concentration and the cooling effect of evaporation. [79]

Acetone should be stored away from strong oxidizers, such as concentrated nitric and sulfuric acid mixtures. [81] It may also explode when mixed with chloroform in the presence of a base. [82] [ clarification needed ] When oxidized without combustion, for example with hydrogen peroxide, acetone may form acetone peroxide, a highly unstable primary explosive. Acetone peroxide may be formed accidentally, e.g. when waste peroxide is poured into waste solvents. [83]

Toxicity

Acetone occurs naturally as part of certain metabolic processes in the human body, and has been studied extensively and is believed to exhibit only slight toxicity in normal use. There is no strong evidence of chronic health effects if basic precautions are followed. [84] It is generally recognized to have low acute and chronic toxicity if ingested and/or inhaled. [85] Acetone is not currently regarded as a carcinogen, a mutagen, or a concern for chronic neurotoxicity effects. [79]

Acetone can be found as an ingredient in a variety of consumer products ranging from cosmetics to processed and unprocessed foods. Acetone has been rated as a generally recognized as safe (GRAS) substance when present in drinks, baked foods, desserts, and preserves at concentrations ranging from 5 to 8 mg/L. [85]

Acetone is however an irritant, causing mild skin and moderate-to-severe eye irritation. At high vapor concentrations, it may depress the central nervous system like many other solvents. [86] Acute toxicity for mice by ingestion (LD50) is 3 g/kg, and by inhalation (LC50) is 44 g/m3 over 4 hours. [87]

Environmental effects

Although acetone occurs naturally in the environment in plants, trees, volcanic gases, forest fires, and as a product of the breakdown of body fat, [88] the majority of the acetone released into the environment is of industrial origin.[ clarification needed ] Acetone evaporates rapidly, even from water and soil. Once in the atmosphere, it has a 22-day half-life and is degraded by UV light via photolysis (primarily into methane and ethane. [89] ) Consumption by microorganisms contributes to the dissipation of acetone in soil, animals, or waterways. [88]

EPA classification

In 1995, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removed acetone from the list of volatile organic compounds. The companies requesting the removal argued that it would "contribute to the achievement of several important environmental goals and would support EPA's pollution prevention efforts", and that acetone could be used as a substitute for several compounds that are listed as hazardous air pollutants (HAP) under section 112 of the Clean Air Act. [90] In making its decision EPA conducted an extensive review of the available toxicity data on acetone, which was continued through the 2000s. It found that the evaluable "data are inadequate for an assessment of the human carcinogenic potential of acetone". [9]

Extraterrestrial occurrence

On 30 July 2015, scientists reported that upon the first touchdown of the Philae lander on comet 67P 's surface, measurements by the COSAC and Ptolemy instruments revealed sixteen organic compounds, four of which were seen for the first time on a comet, including acetamide, acetone, methyl isocyanate, and propionaldehyde. [91] [92] [93]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vinylogy</span> Transmission of electronic effects through a system of conjugated chemical bonds

In organic chemistry, vinylogy is the transmission of electronic effects through a conjugated organic bonding system. The concept was introduced in 1926 by Ludwig Claisen to explain the acidic properties of formylacetone and related ketoaldehydes. Formylacetone, technically CH3(C=O)CH2CH=O, only exists in the ionized form CH3(C−O−)=CH−CH=O or CH3(C=O)−CH=CH−O−. Its adjectival form, vinylogous, is used to describe functional groups in which the standard moieties of the group are separated by a carbon–carbon double bond.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Haloform reaction</span> Chemical reaction involving repeated halogenation of an acetyl group (–COCH3)

In chemistry, the haloform reaction is a chemical reaction in which a haloform is produced by the exhaustive halogenation of an acetyl group, in the presence of a base. The reaction can be used to transform acetyl groups into carboxyl groups or to produce chloroform, bromoform, or iodoform. Note that fluoroform can't be prepared in this way.

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