CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
| Physical Description | Vinyl methyl ether appears as a colorless gas with a sweet odor. Shipped as a liquefied gas under own vapor pressure. Contact with the liquid may cause frostbite. Easily ignited. Vapors are heavier than air. Leaks may either be liquid or vapor. May asphyxiate by the displacement of air. Under prolonged exposure to fire or intense heat containers may rupture violently and rocket. |
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| Color/Form | Colorless, compressed gas or colorless liquid |
| Odor | Sweet, pleasant |
| Boiling Point | 41.9 °F at 760 mmHg (USCG, 1999) |
| Melting Point | -188 °F (USCG, 1999) |
| Flash Point | -69 °F (USCG, 1999) |
| Solubility | In water, 0.97 wt% /15,000 mg/L/ at 20 °C |
| Density | 0.777 at 32 °F (USCG, 1999) - Less dense than water; will float |
| Vapor Density | 2.0 (Air = 1) |
| Vapor Pressure | 1316.0 [mmHg] |
| Autoignition Temperature | 549 °F (USCG, 1999) |
| Decomposition | When heated to decomposition it emits acrid smoke and irritating fumes. |
| Polymerization | Presence of base is essential during storage or distillation of the ether to prevent rapid acid-catalyzed homopolymerization ... Mildly acidic solids ... will initiate exothermic polymerization. |
| Refractive Index | Index of refraction: 1.3730 at 0 °C/D |
| Kovats Retention Index | 416 416 |
| Other Experimental Properties | Easily polymerized |
| Chemical Classes | Plastics & Rubber -> Other Monomers |
COMPUTED DESCRIPTORS
| Molecular Weight | 58.08 g/mol |
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| XLogP3 | 0.8 |
| Hydrogen Bond Donor Count | 0 |
| Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count | 1 |
| Rotatable Bond Count | 1 |
| Exact Mass | 58.041864811 g/mol |
| Monoisotopic Mass | 58.041864811 g/mol |
| Topological Polar Surface Area | 9.2 Ų |
| Heavy Atom Count | 4 |
| Formal Charge | 0 |
| Complexity | 17.2 |
| Isotope Atom Count | 0 |
| Defined Atom Stereocenter Count | 0 |
| Undefined Atom Stereocenter Count | 0 |
| Defined Bond Stereocenter Count | 0 |
| Undefined Bond Stereocenter Count | 0 |
| Covalently-Bonded Unit Count | 1 |
| Compound Is Canonicalized | Yes |
PRODUCT INTRODUCTION
description
Vinyl methyl ether appears as a colorless gas with a sweet odor. Shipped as a liquefied gas under own vapor pressure. Contact with the liquid may cause frostbite. Easily ignited. Vapors are heavier than air. Leaks may either be liquid or vapor. May asphyxiate by the displacement of air. Under prolonged exposure to fire or intense heat containers may rupture violently and rocket.