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Vinyl Acetate

C4H6O2, 86.09 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

verified recordOrganic — ester9 measured properties

Drawn from the SMILES. It shows how the atoms are connected — not a photograph of a molecule, and not its shape in space.

Identifiers

Molecular formula
C₄H₆O₂
Molecular weight
86.09 g/mol
Exact mass
86.036779 g/mol
IUPAC name
ethenyl acetate
SMILES
C=COC(C)=O
InChI
InChI=1S/C4H6O2/c1-3-6-4(2)5/h3H,1H2,2H3
InChIKey
XTXRWKRVRITETP-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Both are open without an account.

Measured properties

Values somebody obtained from a sample and published. Where two sources report the same property they are both shown, in the units each used — a disagreement between them is information, and averaging it away would be inventing a number neither one gave.

Boiling Point
162 to 163 °F at 760 mmHg (EPA, 1998)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
72.8 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Melting Point
-136 °F (EPA, 1998)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
-93.2 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Density
0.932 at 68 °F (EPA, 1998) - Less dense than water; will floatmeasured · CAMEO Chemicals
0.932 at 20 °C/4 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Solubility
2 % (NIOSH, 2024)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
Sol in ethane, acetone, chloroformmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Vapor Pressure
83 to 140 mmHg at 68 to 86 °F (EPA, 1998)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
115.0 [mmHg]measured · Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
LogP
log Kow = 0.73measured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
0.73measured · Human Metabolome Database (HMDB)
Flash Point
18 °F (EPA, 1998)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
-8 °C, closed cupmeasured · Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
Viscosity
0.43 cPs at 20 °Cmeasured · Corfeiro CF, Petrocellli FP; Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. (2001). NY, NY: John Wiley & Sons; Vinyl Acetate Polymers. Online Posting Date:Jan 14, 2005.
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.3926 at 25 °Cmeasured · Olson, K.R. (Ed.); Poisoning & Drug Overdose. 5th ed. Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill. New York, N.Y. 2007., p. 3-518

Calculated properties

Derived from the structure rather than from a sample. These are reproducible and they are not measurements: a calculated partition coefficient and a measured one can differ by a long way, and where both exist they are listed apart on purpose.

Molecular weight
86.09 g/molcalculated · reference compound database
Average mass of one molecule, from reference compound database.
Exact mass
86.03677943 Dacalculated · reference compound database
Mass of the most common isotopic form.
XLogP3
0.7calculated · reference compound database
Estimated oil/water partition, computed by reference compound database.
Polar surface area
26.3 Ųcalculated · reference compound database
Polar surface area as computed by reference compound database.
Complexity
65calculated · reference compound database
A rough measure of how intricate the structure is.
H-bond donors
0calculated · reference compound database
H-bond acceptors
2calculated · reference compound database
logP
0.693calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
26.3 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
0calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can donate a hydrogen bond.
H-bond acceptors
2calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
1calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
21.963 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
0.25calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.3464calculated · chemistry engine
Quantitative estimate of drug-likeness (0–1).

What it is made of

Elements

Percentages are of the molecular weight above, worked out the same way the molar mass calculator does it.

Structure

Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
6
Total atoms, hydrogen included
12
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Ester

    A carbonyl bonded to an oxygen that links to another carbon.

  • Ether

    An oxygen bridging two carbons.

  • Alkene

    A carbon–carbon double bond.

Matched by structural pattern, not by a measurement.

The molecule in three dimensions

Rotate and inspect the atoms. Loaded only when you ask, so the page stays light.

The drawing above is a diagram of what is bonded to what. A molecule is not flat, and the model here is one low-energy shape generated from the connectivity — useful for seeing which groups can reach each other, and not a measured structure. A real sample is a population of conformations, interconverting.

Reactions it appears in

No documented reaction with a written procedure and a source involves Vinyl Acetate yet.

Other names for it

The systematic name on this record is ethenyl acetate.

The sources also call it Ethenyl acetate, Acetic acid ethenyl ester, Acetic acid vinyl ester, Ethenyl ethanoate, Acetoxyethylene, Vinylacetate, Vinyl acetate monomer, Vinyl A monomer, Acetoxyethene, 1-Acetoxyethylene, Vinyl ethanoate.

Structurally related

Molecules sharing this formula, or whose fingerprint is at least 40% similar to this one. Similarity is Tanimoto on Morgan fingerprints over this library only — it is a measure of structural overlap, not of how alike they behave.

Seen alongside it in reaction records

Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as Vinyl Acetate. This says nothing about structure: most of them are the bases, solvents, ligands and catalysts the chemistry needed, and they are here because somebody put them in the same flask.

Where these values came from

compound record.

What this page does not claim

The identifiers are what the source record holds, copied rather than recomputed. Measured values are reported as their source gave them, units and all; calculated values are marked as calculated and are not measurements. Where a field is absent the page says so, because a blank cell reads as a zero and a guessed value reads as a fact.

Nothing here is a hazard assessment, a purity statement or advice about handling a sample. A flash point quoted from a safety database is a number somebody published, not a judgement by us about whether this molecule is safe for what you intend.