Registration Dossier
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EC number: 209-132-5 | CAS number: 556-61-6
Hydrolysis
Administrative data
Link to relevant study record(s)
Description of key information
Methyl isothiocyanate can be considered as relatively stable in water at environmental concentrations.
Key value for chemical safety assessment
- Half-life for hydrolysis:
- 65 d
- at the temperature of:
- 25 °C
Additional information
Using conditions representative of the upper Sacramento River system, site of a metam-sodium spill, hydrolysis half-lives in a buffered system were determined to be 65 and 178 days at 25 and 0 deg C, respectively, and a pH of 7.0; results at pH 10 were 0.7 and 10 days at 25 and 9 deg C, respectively, and at pH 4, half-lives of 15 and 67 days at 25 and 0 deg C, respectively, were reported. Nevertheless, these data should be considered with care because little information is available in order to challenge the validity of the data. So, it can be considered that at environmental concentrations methyl isothiocyanate is relatively stable. The major degradation products that can be presupposed are dimethylurea, N,N'-dimethyl thiourea and methyl dithiocarbamic acid.
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