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Preparation of Dietyl Sulfate
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Merck Index 13th

Monograph Number:  3156
Title:  Diethyl Sulfate
CAS Registry Number:  64-67-5
CAS Name:  Sulfuric acid diethyl ester
Molecular Formula:  C4H10O4S
Molecular Weight:  154.19. 
Percent Composition:  C 31.16%, H 6.54%, O 41.50%, S 20.80%
Line Formula:  (C2H5)2SO4
Literature References:  Prepd from ethanol + sulfuric acid; by absorption of ethylene in sulfuric acid; from diethyl ether and fuming sulfuric acid.  Review of prepn and uses:  R. Page, J. A. John in Ethylene and its Industrial Derivatives, S. A. Miller, Ed. (Benn, London, 1969) pp 774-787.  Toxicity data:  H. F. Smyth et al., J. Ind. Hyg. Toxicol. 31, 60 (1949).  Review of carcinogenicity studies:  IARC Monographs 4, 277-281 (1974).  Reviews:  C. M. Suter, The Organic Chemistry of Sulfur (John Wiley, 1944) pp 62-65; E. E. Gilbert, Sulfonation and Related Reactions (Interscience, New York, 1965).
Properties:  Colorless, oily liquid; peppermint odor.  Poisonous!  Darkens with age.  bp 209.5° with decompn; bp15 96°; bp5 75°.  mp -25°.  d423 1.1774.  nD20 1.40037, A. I. Vogel, D. M. Cowan, J. Chem. Soc. 1943, 16.  Flash pt:  220°F.  Vapor density (air = 1) 5.31.  Vapor pressure at 47° = 1 mm.  Practically insol in water, gradually dec by it.  Rapidly dec by hot water into monoethyl sulfate and alcohol.  Miscible with alcohol, ether.  LD50 orally in rats:  0.88 g/kg (Smyth).
Melting point:  mp -25°
Boiling point:  bp 209.5° with decompn; bp15 96°; bp5 75°
Flash point:  Flash pt:  220°F
Index of refraction:  nD20 1.40037, A. I. Vogel, D. M. Cowan, J. Chem. Soc. 1943, 16
Density:  d423 1.1774
Toxicity data:  LD50 orally in rats:  0.88 g/kg (Smyth)
NOTE:  This substance is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen:  Ninth Report on Carcinogens (PB2000-107509, 2000) p III-115.
Use:  Chiefly as an ethylating agent; as an accelerator in the sulfation of ethylene; in some sulfonations.

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I`m looking for all references about dietylsulfate from Ullmann etc.