Sodium 4-[(C16-18-(even numbered)-alkylamino)carbonyl]benzoate

Explosiveness

Administrative data

Endpoint:

explosive properties of explosives

Data waiving:

study scientifically not necessary / other information available

Justification for data waiving:

the study does not need to be conducted because there are no chemical groups present in the molecule which are associated with explosive properties

Justification for type of information:

In accordance with column 2 of REACH Annex VII, the explosive properties study does not need to be conducted as there are no chemical groups associated with explosive properties present in the substance. According to the ECHA guidance (ECHA 2017), a substance or mixture is not classified as explosive when there are no chemical groups associated with explosive properties present in the molecule. Examples of groups which may indicate explosive properties in organic materials are:
C-C unsaturation (e.g. acetylenes, acetylides, 1, 2-dienes);
C-Metal, N-Metal (e.g. Grignard reagents, organo-lithium compounds);
Contiguous nitrogen atoms (e.g. azides, aliphatic azo compounds, diazonium salts, hydrazines, sulphonylhydrazides);
Contiguous oxygen atoms (e.g. peroxides, ozonides);
N-O (e.g. hydroxyl amines, nitrates, nitro compounds, nitroso compounds, N-oxides, 1,2-oxazoles);
N-halogen (e.g. chloramines, fluoroamines);
O-halogen (e.g. chlorates, perchlorates, iodosyl compounds).
The substance does not contain any of the chemical groups listed above as associated with explosive properties. The substance is a metal salt of terephthalamaic acids containing a metal ion which is ionically bonded to a carbonyl group when the salt is in its isolated form. However, the substance is almost exclusively produced and used directly in grease form where the substance is expected to be fully dissociated. Therefore, the substance is not considered to have explosive properties.