
Diethyl Maleate
Diethyl maleate is a maleate ester resulting from the formal condensation of both carboxy groups of maleic acid with ethanol. A colourless liquid at room temperature (m.p. -10C) with boiling point 220C at 1 atm., it is commonly used as a dienophile for Diels-Alder-type cycloaddition reactions in organic synthesis. It has a role as a glutathione depleting agent. It is an ethyl ester and a maleate ester. It is functionally related to an ethanol. — ChEBI
- IUPAC name
- diethyl (Z)-but-2-enedioate
- Molecular formula
- C8H12O4
- Molecular weight
- 172.18 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 172.07355886 Da
- XLogP3
- 0.9
- Topological polar surface area
- 52.6 Ų
- Hydrogen-bond donors
- 0
- Hydrogen-bond acceptors
- 4
- Covalent units
- 1
- Defined stereocentres
- 0
Also known as
16 more reported names
External database identifiers
- ChEBI:CHEBI:68508
- ChEMBL:CHEMBL2037000
- EPA DTXSID:DTXSID8020464
- PubMed:321785
- PubMed:3825
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