benzene
Hydrocarbon compound consisting of a 6-sided ring
Also known as C6H6 · [6]annulene · BNZ · cyclohexa-1,3,5-triene · 1,3,5-cyclohexatriene · benzol
- Formula
- C₆H₆
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- C₆H₆
- Mass
- 78.047 Da
- Melting point
- 42°F
- , 6°C
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Sources- 1.Stated in International Chemical Safety Card“BENZENE”Retrieved 2019-06-12
- , 5.53°C
- Boiling point
- 176°F
- , 80°C
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Sources- 1.Stated in International Chemical Safety Card“BENZENE”Retrieved 2019-06-12
- , 80.09°C
- Density
- 0.88 g/cm³
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- 0.88 g/cm³
- Solubility
- 0.07 gram per 100 gram of solvent
Overview
Chemistry
All data
250 statements · 56% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Speed of sound
- 1,310 m/s temperature: 25°C · state of matter: liquid
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- 1,310 m/s temperature: 25°C · state of matter: liquid
- Immediately dangerous to life or health
- 1,595 milligram per cubic metre
- Vapor pressure
- 75 millimetre of mercury temperature: 68°F
- Flash point
- 12°F
- -11°C
- Lower flammable limit
- 1.2 volume percent
- Upper flammable limit
- 7.8 volume percent
- Ionization energy
- 9.24 eV
- 9.25 eV
- Time-weighted average exposure limit
- 0.32 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: none · runtime: 10 h
- 1 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Austria, Belgium
- 0.5 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Denmark, Iceland
- 5 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: New Zealand
- 10 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Poland
- 5 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Russia
- 10 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Thailand
- 3.25 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Netherlands
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- 25 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Philippines
- 20 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Turkey
- Short-term exposure limit
- 3.19 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: none · runtime: 15 min
- 4 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Austria
- 5 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Mexico
- 40 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Poland
- 15 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Russia
- 3 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Sweden
- 25 parts per million applies to jurisdiction: Thailand
- Minimal lethal dose
- 170,000 milligram per cubic metre route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: cat
- 146,000 milligram per cubic metre route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: dog
- 20,000 parts per million route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: human · runtime: 2 min
- 5 milligram per cubic metre route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: human · runtime: 5 h
- 20,000 parts per million route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: human · runtime: 5 min
- 100 parts per million route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: human
- 65 milligram per cubic metre route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: human · runtime: 5 years
- 20,000 parts per million route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: mammal · runtime: 5 min
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- 45,000 parts per million route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: rabbit · runtime: 30 min
- 35,000 parts per million route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: rabbit · runtime: 22 min
- 10,000 parts per million route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: laboratory rat
- 340 milligram per kilogram route of administration: intraperitoneal injection · afflicts: laboratory mouse
- 1.1 milligram per kilogram route of administration: intraperitoneal injection · afflicts: laboratory rat
- 2,000 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · afflicts: dog
- 50 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · afflicts: human
- 1,400 milligram per kilogram route of administration: subcutaneous injection · afflicts: Anura
- 5 milligram per kilogram route of administration: subcutaneous injection · afflicts: laboratory rat
- 194 milligram per kilogram afflicts: human
- 44,000 parts per million route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: rabbit · runtime: 30 min
- 44,923 parts per million afflicts: dog · route of administration: inhalation
- 52,308 parts per million afflicts: cat · route of administration: inhalation
- Median lethal dose (LD50)
- 9,980 parts per million route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: laboratory mouse
- 10,000 parts per million route of administration: inhalation · afflicts: laboratory rat · runtime: 7 h
- 527 milligram per kilogram route of administration: intraperitoneal injection · afflicts: guinea pig
- 1,500 milligram per kilogram route of administration: intraperitoneal injection · afflicts: mammal
- 88 milligram per kilogram route of administration: intravenous infusion and defusion · applies to taxon: rabbit
- 5,700 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · afflicts: mammal
- 4,700 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · applies to taxon: laboratory mouse
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Sources- 1.cdc.gov/niosh-rtecs/CY155CC0.html#modalIdString_CDCTable_4
- 2.Stated in PubChem“benzene”Retrieved 2024-04-12
- 6,400 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · applies to taxon: laboratory rat
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- 930 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · afflicts: laboratory rat
- 1,800 milligram per kilogram route of administration: oral administration · afflicts: laboratory rat
- 9.4 milligram per kilogram route of administration: skin absorption · afflicts: guinea pig
- 48 milligram per kilogram route of administration: skin absorption · afflicts: laboratory mouse
- Ceiling exposure limit
- 3 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: Hungary
- Canonical SMILES
- c1ccccc1 reason for preferred rank: editorial choice
- C1=CC=CC=C1
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- Dynamic viscosity
- 0.0652 poiseuille
- Safety classification and labelling
- NFPA 704: Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response nfpa health: 2 · nfpa fire: 3 · nfpa instability: 0
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Sources- 1.“Benzene”cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750032.htmlRetrieved 2018-04-20
- Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008 ghs hazard pictogram: GHS02: flame, GHS08: health hazard · ghs signal word: danger · ghs hazard statement: H225, H304
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- NFPA 704: Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response nfpa health: 2 · nfpa fire: 3 · nfpa instability: 0
- Standard molar entropy
- 172.8 joule per mole kelvin state of matter: liquid
- Specific heat capacity
- 16.157 joule per mole kelvin difference state of matter: liquid · temperature: 298 K
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- 16.157 joule per mole kelvin difference state of matter: liquid · temperature: 298 K
- Part of
- benzene metabolic process subject has role: participant
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- benzene catabolic process subject has role: reactant
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- benzene biosynthetic process subject has role: product
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- response to benzene subject has role: reactant
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- benzene 1,2-dioxygenase activity
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- benzene metabolic process subject has role: participant
- Refractive index
- 1.501 temperature: 20°C · wavelength: 589.29
- Found in taxon
- Subject has role
- occupational carcinogen
- male reproductive toxicant
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Sources- 1.Stated in California Proposition 65 list of chemicalsoehha.ca.gov/chemicals/benzeneRetrieved 2021-02-09
- developmental toxicant
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Sources- 1.Stated in California Proposition 65 list of chemicalsoehha.ca.gov/chemicals/benzeneRetrieved 2021-02-09
- carcinogen
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Sources- 1.Stated in California Proposition 65 list of chemicalsoehha.ca.gov/chemicals/benzeneRetrieved 2021-02-09
- Electric dipole moment
- 0 debye
- Discovered
- 1825
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- 1825
- Subject named as
- Benzol creator: Justus von Liebig
On other databases
94 identifiers linking benzene across the web's reference databases
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID1847
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300015244
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinebenzenas
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/9565
- BabelNet ID00009977n
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID120494267
- BNCF Thesaurus ID22850
- CA PROP 65 IDbenzene
- CAMEO Chemicals ID2577
- Cannabis Database ID000735
- CAS Registry Number71-43-2
- CCDC Number1108749
- ChEBI ID16716
- ChEMBL IDCHEMBL277500
- ChemSpider ID236
- CSD RefcodeBENZEN
- Dewey Decimal Classification547.611
- DSSTOX compound identifierDTXCID20135
- DSSTox substance IDDTXSID3039242
- EC number200-753-7
- ECHA Substance Infocard ID100.000.685
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDscience/benzene
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDbenzene
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)119408
- Fluorophores.org substance ID347
- Freebase ID/m/01c36
- Global Energy Monitor Wiki IDBenzene
- Gmelin number1671
- GND ID4144541-7
- Golden ID (archived)Benzene-PRE4NE
- Google News topics IDCAAqIQgKIhtDQkFTRGdvSUwyMHZNREZqTXpZU0FtVnVLQUFQAQ
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDbenze
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0084042
- Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius entry IDБензол
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDbenzen
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDbenzol-77569b
- Haz-Map IDAgents/5
- HCIS ID359
- HSDB ID35
- Human Metabolome Database IDHMDB0001505
- ICSC ID0015
- IEDB Epitope ID116867
- InChIInChI=1S/C6H6/c1-2-4-6-5-3-1/h1-6H
- InChIKeyUHOVQNZJYSORNB-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- J-GLOBAL ID200907084458074576
- J9U entity ID987007283270005171
- KBpedia IDBenzene
- KEGG IDC01407
- Kemler code33
- Lex IDbenzen
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85013229
- MassBank accession IDMSBNK-Fac_Eng_Univ_Tokyo-JP002103
- MeSH descriptor IDD001554
- MeSH tree codeD02.455.426.559.389.023
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)2777691172
- Museum-digital tag ID21353
- NALT ID12304
- NDF-RT IDN0000182445
- NDL Authority ID00560611
- Nikkaji IDJ2.375B
- NL CR AUT IDph249385
- NMRShiftDB structure ID7901
- NSC number67315
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning334
- OpenAlex IDC2777691172
- OSHA Occupational Chemical Database ID491
- PDB ligand IDBNZ
- PDB structure ID1A7Z
- PesticideInfo chemical IDPRI1562
- PM20 ware ID142110
- PSH ID5981
- PubChem CID241
- Quora topic IDBenzene-compound
- Reaxys registry number969212
- RTECS numberCY1400000
- RxNorm CUI1311295
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri IDmaterias/1030617
- SPLASHsplash10-004i-9000000000-92ccc664b07cb6c56de9
- Store medisinske leksikon IDbenzen
- SureChEMBL ID322563
- Treccani IDbenzene
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID8624
- UM-BBD compound IDc0142
- UMLS CUIC0005036
- UN number1114
- UN Thesaurus ID1000573
- UniChem compound ID200528
- UNIIJ64922108F
- UNSPSC code15101507
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID14798860-n