Formaldehyde
Properties
- Molecular formula
- CH2O
- Molar mass
- 30.03 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 30.0106 Da
- Density
- 0.8 g/mL
- Melting point
- −92 °C
- Boiling point
- −19.5 °C
- pKa
- 13.27 (25 °C)
- Water solubility
- miscible (25 °C)
- logP
- -0.18Crippen estimate
- Polar surface area
- 17.1 Ų
- H-bond donors / acceptors
- 0 / 1
- Rotatable bonds
- 0
Hazards
Danger
- H302 Harmful if swallowedAcute toxicity, oral
- H314 Causes severe skin burns and eye damageSkin corrosion/irritation
- H317 May cause an allergic skin reactionSensitization, Skin
- H330 Fatal if inhaledAcute toxicity, inhalation
- H341 Suspected of causing genetic defectsGerm cell mutagenicity
- H350 May cause cancerCarcinogenicity
Harmonised EU classification (CLP Annex VI), via PubChem.
Precautionary statements
P203, P260, P261, P264, P270, P271, P272, P280, P284, P301+P317, P301+P330+P331, P302+P352, P302+P361+P354, P304+P340, P305+P354+P338, P316, P318, P320, P321, P330, P333+P317, P362+P364, P363, P403+P233, P405, P501
Identifiers
CAS number
50-00-0SMILES
C=OInChIKey
WSFSSNUMVMOOMR-UHFFFAOYSA-NInChI
InChI=1S/CH2O/c1-2/h1H2Weigh it out
Type any one amount. The others follow from the molar mass and density.
Names and synonyms
27 names · show all
- BFV
- Fannoform
- Formalin
- Formalith
- Formic aldehyde
- Formol
- Fyde
- Methanal
- Methyl aldehyde
- Methylene oxide
- Oxomethane
- Oxymethylene
- Superlysoform
- Lysoform
- Morbicid
- Paraform
- Methaldehyde
- Floguard 1015
- FM 282
- F-Gen
- Fordor
- NSC 298885
- Formalin LM
- Optilyse
- Formalin taisei
- Formaldehyde-12C
- FS 850A
Work with Formaldehyde
Predict the NMR spectrum1H and 13C shifts with multiplicities
Make a solutionWhat to weigh for any molarity and volume
Check drug-likenessLipinski, Veber and lead-likeness
Boiling point under vacuumAt any pressure, from its normal boiling point
Isotope patternExact mass and the mass spectrum pattern
Stereoisomers, salts and isotopologues
The same compound in another form: other stereochemistry, a salt or hydrate, the free acid or base, or an isotope-labelled version.
Similar compounds
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Urea-formaldehyde resin9011-05-633 % similar
m-Xylene-formaldehyde resin26139-75-332 % similar
Tanimoto similarity of circular fingerprints over the whole catalogue. All similar compounds