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REACH

Ethyl chloroformate

EC number: 208-778-5 | CAS number: 541-41-3

Life Cycle description
Uses advised against

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Ethyl chloroformate was shown to be readily biodegradable in the MITI-(I)-test following OECD TG 301C. However, ethyl chloroformate is rapidly hydrolysed (half-life = 20 min, pH 7, 25 °C) to ethanol, HCl and CO₂. Therefore, the results are most likely related to the hydrolysate. In separate tests, the hydrolysis product ethanol was shown to be readily biodegradable ( Price et al., 1974; OECD, 2005). Regarding the hydrolysis products HCl and CO₂, biodegradation is not applicable due to the inorganic character of these molecules.

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