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EC number: 241-477-7 | CAS number: 17463-34-2
- Life Cycle description
- Uses advised against
- Endpoint summary
- Appearance / physical state / colour
- Melting point / freezing point
- Boiling point
- Density
- Particle size distribution (Granulometry)
- Vapour pressure
- Partition coefficient
- Water solubility
- Solubility in organic solvents / fat solubility
- Surface tension
- Flash point
- Auto flammability
- Flammability
- Explosiveness
- Oxidising properties
- Oxidation reduction potential
- Stability in organic solvents and identity of relevant degradation products
- Storage stability and reactivity towards container material
- Stability: thermal, sunlight, metals
- pH
- Dissociation constant
- Viscosity
- Additional physico-chemical information
- Additional physico-chemical properties of nanomaterials
- Nanomaterial agglomeration / aggregation
- Nanomaterial crystalline phase
- Nanomaterial crystallite and grain size
- Nanomaterial aspect ratio / shape
- Nanomaterial specific surface area
- Nanomaterial Zeta potential
- Nanomaterial surface chemistry
- Nanomaterial dustiness
- Nanomaterial porosity
- Nanomaterial pour density
- Nanomaterial photocatalytic activity
- Nanomaterial radical formation potential
- Nanomaterial catalytic activity
- Endpoint summary
- Stability
- Biodegradation
- Bioaccumulation
- Transport and distribution
- Environmental data
- Additional information on environmental fate and behaviour
- Ecotoxicological Summary
- Aquatic toxicity
- Endpoint summary
- Short-term toxicity to fish
- Long-term toxicity to fish
- Short-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Long-term toxicity to aquatic invertebrates
- Toxicity to aquatic algae and cyanobacteria
- Toxicity to aquatic plants other than algae
- Toxicity to microorganisms
- Endocrine disrupter testing in aquatic vertebrates – in vivo
- Toxicity to other aquatic organisms
- Sediment toxicity
- Terrestrial toxicity
- Biological effects monitoring
- Biotransformation and kinetics
- Additional ecotoxological information
- Toxicological Summary
- Toxicokinetics, metabolism and distribution
- Acute Toxicity
- Irritation / corrosion
- Sensitisation
- Repeated dose toxicity
- Genetic toxicity
- Carcinogenicity
- Toxicity to reproduction
- Specific investigations
- Exposure related observations in humans
- Toxic effects on livestock and pets
- Additional toxicological data
Endpoint summary
Administrative data
Description of key information
skin irritation/corrosion:
- rabbit (dodecylamine): corrosive
- rabbit (coco alkylamines): highly corrosive
- rabbit (coco alkylamines): corrosive
Key value for chemical safety assessment
Skin irritation / corrosion
Endpoint conclusion
- Endpoint conclusion:
- adverse effect observed (corrosive)
Eye irritation
Endpoint conclusion
- Endpoint conclusion:
- no study available
Respiratory irritation
Endpoint conclusion
- Endpoint conclusion:
- no study available
Additional information
There is no experimental data on skin/eye irritation/corrosion for caprylamine caprylate. The skin irritation/corrosion potential of caprylamine caprylate is derived from the available data of dodecylamine and coco (source chemicals).
Clear skin corrosive effects was observed in studies with both dodecylamine and coco alkylamines. Therefore, the target substance caprylamine caprylate is also considered as corrosive to skin.
According to EU regulation 1907/2006, Annex VII, column 2, the study regarding eye irritation needs not to be conducted since the substance is classified as corrosive to the skin.
The target chemical caprylamine caprylate is an ionic compound that results from the neutralization reaction of the compounds of octanoic acid and octylamine. In aqueous solution or in a biological fluid, it could be dissociate as octanoic acid and octylamine. Therefore, the toxicity toxicological profile of the target chemical should be comparable to that of octylamine and octanoic acid. Based on the basic concept of “chain length category”, the use of toxicity data of other fatty amines for read-across purpose to octylamine and the target chemical is justified. The dissociated product of the target chemical – octylamine and the source chemicals of dodecylamine and coco alkylamines belong to the homologues series of fatty amines and form a “chain length category”, where there is an incremental increase in the number of CH2 units. Therefore, it can be reasonably assumed that octylamine and other fatty amines (dodecylamine and coco alkylamines) share the same toxic mode of action.
All the chemicals are assessed using the rule based expert system DEREK Nexus based on their chemical structures. The assessment results are identical for the target chemical octylamine, dodecylamine and coco alkylamines: all the chemicals are predicted as negative for mutagenicity in bacteria. No toxicity potential or structure alert is identified.
With regard to the endpoint of skin irritation/corrosion, corrosive effect was identified for the source chemicals of octylamine, dodecylamine and coco alkylamines. The target chemicals is also considered as corrosive to skin (Cat 1A) based on the analogue approach. For this endpoint, the analogue approach is also justified considering the “worst case” scenario.
Effects on skin irritation/corrosion: corrosive
Justification for classification or non-classification
Based on the available data the subatance is classified as Category 1A for skin irritation/corrosion, according to the criteria laid down in the EU Dangerous Substances Directive (67/548/EEC) and in the EU Classification Labelling and Packaging Regulation (1272/2008/EC).
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