2,6-Di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol, 99%

Name: 2,6-Di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol, 99%
SKU: ALFA16863.30

CAS: 128-37-0 | C15H24O | 220.356 g/mol

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Chemical Name or Material2,6-Di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol

CAS128-37-0

Health Hazard 1H335-H373

Health Hazard 2GHS H Statement
H302-H319
Harmful if swallowed.
Causes serious eye irritation.

Health Hazard 3P260-P271-P304+P340-P312-P314-P501c

2,6-Di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol is used as an antioxidant for cosmetics, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, rubber, oils and fats. It is used as a fuel additive in the petroleum industry and also used in hydraulic fluids, turbine and gear oils and jet fuels. It acts as a stabilizer in diethyl ether, tetrahydrofuran and other laboratory chemicals to prevent peroxide formation. It is effectively involved as a polymerization inhibitor in the process of oxidation of allyl alcohol to glycerine. It is utilized in the synthesis of organoaluminum compound, methylaluminum bis(2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-alkylphenoxide.

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Applications
2,6-Di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol is used as an antioxidant for cosmetics, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, rubber, oils and fats. It is used as a fuel additive in the petroleum industry and also used in hydraulic fluids, turbine and gear oils and jet fuels. It acts as a stabilizer in diethyl ether, tetrahydrofuran and other laboratory chemicals to prevent peroxide formation. It is effectively involved as a polymerization inhibitor in the process of oxidation of allyl alcohol to glycerine. It is utilized in the synthesis of organoaluminum compound, methylaluminum bis(2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-alkylphenoxide.

Solubility
Soluble in methanol, toluene, isopropanol, methyl ethyl ketone, acetone, benzene, petroleum ether and ethanol. Insoluble in water.

Notes
Light-sensitive. Keep the container tightly closed in a cool, dry and well-ventilated place. Incompatible with acid chlorides, acid anhydrides, oxidizing agents, bases, brass, copper and copper alloys.

RUO – Research Use Only

General References:

Radical inhibitor and antioxidant, readily soluble in nonpolar media. Finds widespread use in the inhibition of peroxide formation in ether solvents and also as a preservative/ antioxidant for unsaturated oils and fats in the food, synthetic rubber and paint industries.
Source of t-butyl group in aromatic substitution reactions. For reviews of the use of t-butyl as a positional protecting group for aromatic substitution reactions, readily removable with, e.g. AlCl ₃ in toluene, see: Org. Prep. Proced. Int., 8, 51 (1976); Synthesis, 921 (1979).
Khabibullina, G. A.; Belyaeva, A. S.; Niyazov, N. A.; Movsum-zade, E. M. Simple and low-cost method for processing of waste from production of 2,6-di-tert -butyl-4-methylphenol to give a high-efficiency stabilizer of rubbers and biodiesel fuel. Russ. J. Appl. Chem. 2014, 87 (11), 1680-1685.
Prishchenko, A. A.; Livantsov, M. V.; Novikova, O. P.; Livantsova, L. I.; Milaeva, E. R. Synthesis of Organophosphorus-Substituted Amides of Carbonic Acids with PCHNC(O) and 2,6-Di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol Fragments. Heteroat. Chem. 2008, 19 (7), 733-737.