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Please be aware that this old REACH registration data factsheet is no longer maintained; it remains frozen as of 19th May 2023.

The new ECHA CHEM database has been released by ECHA, and it now contains all REACH registration data. There are more details on the transition of ECHA's published data to ECHA CHEM here.

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Sodium methanethiolate (CAS No. 5188-07-8) is the sodium salt of methanethiol (CAS No. 74-93-1) and is safer and easier to handle. Upon addition to water, sodium methanethiolate dissociates to the methanethiolate anion and sodium cation. Depending on pH, equilibrium then exists between the methanethiolate anion and methanethiol itself (protonated, neutral form). At environmentally relevant pHs, the substance exists almost entirely in the protonated form, methanethiol. Because the compounds are identical at environmental and biological pH values, toxicity and fate data from either compound can be used to read across to the other compound.