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REACH

Dimethyl sulfoxide

EC number: 200-664-3 | CAS number: 67-68-5

Life Cycle description
Uses advised against

Environmental fate & pathways

Phototransformation in air

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Administrative data

Link to relevant study record(s)

Description of key information

Key value for chemical safety assessment

Additional information

In the atmosphere, DMSO concentrations are low and associated with aqueous phase. Reaction rate constants for the reaction of DMSO with photochemically-produced hydroxyl radicals is of 5.9*10-11 cm3/molecule-sec (eq. to a half-life of about 2.5 h) in the atmosphere and at an atmospheric concentration of 9.7*10+5 hydroxyl radicals per cm3. Therefore DMSO can be considered as not persistent in the atmosphere. This value is also supported by modeling which indicates half-life of ca. 2 h. In presence of other oxidising compounds (ozone, NO₃ radical, Cl, etc) persistency in the atmosphere can vary with half-life up to > 78 days in presence of ozone. DMSO does not absorb light at wavelengths >290 nm and therefore is not expected to be susceptible to direct photolysis by sunlight.

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