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50-29-3

Name 4,4'-DDT
CAS 50-29-3
EINECS(EC#) 200-024-3
Molecular Formula C14H9Cl5
MDL Number MFCD00000802
Molecular Weight 354.49
MOL File 50-29-3.mol

Chemical Properties

Appearance DDT is a waxy solid or slightly off-white powder of indefinite melting point with a weak, chemical odor.
Melting point  107-110 °C(lit.)
Boiling point  440.74°C (rough estimate)
density  1.556 g/cm3
vapor pressure  0.5 at 25 °C (extrapolated from vapor pressures determined at higher temperatures, Tesconi andYalkowsky, 1998)
refractive index  1.755
Fp  72 °C
storage temp.  APPROX 4°C
solubility  Chloroform: Slightly Soluble; Methanol: Heated
form  neat
Water Solubility  Practically insoluble in water
Stability: Stable. Combustible. Incompatible with strong oxidizing agents, iron and aluminium and their salts, alkalies.
Merck  13,2861
BRN  1882657
Henry's Law Constant 0.188 at 5 °C, 0.513 at 15 °C, 0.681 at 20 °C, 0.957 at 25 °C, 2.76 at 35 °C:in 3% NaCl solution: 1.15 at 5 °C, 1.88 at 15 °C, 3.36 at 25 °C, 5.43 at 35 °C (gas stripping-GC, Cetin et al., 2006)
Exposure limits NIOSH REL: 0.5 mg/m3, IDLH 500 mg/m3; OSHA PEL: TWA 1 mg/m3; ACGIH TLV: TWA 1 mg/m3.
Contact allergens
This insecticide was formerly reported as a sensitizer in farmers or agricultural workers.
IARC 2A (Vol. Sup 7, 53, 113) 2018
EPA Substance Registry System p,p'-DDT (50-29-3)

Safety Data

Hazard Codes  T,N,Xi,F,Xn
Risk Statements 
Safety Statements 
RIDADR  UN 2811 6.1/PG 3
WGK Germany  3
RTECS  KJ3325000
HazardClass  6.1(b)
PackingGroup  III
Safety Profile
Confirmed carcinogen with experimental carcinogenic, neoplastigenic, tumorigenic, and teratogenic data. Human poison by ingestion. Experimental poison by ingestion, skin contact, subcutaneous, intravenous, and intraperitoneal routes. Experimental reproductive effects. Human systemic effects by ingestion: anesthetic, convulsions, headache, analgesia, cardiac arrhythmias, nausea or vomiting, sweating, and unspecified pulmonary changes. Human mutation data reported. An insecticide. When heated to decomposition it emits toxic fumes of Cl-. See also CHLORINATED HYDROCARBONS, AROiWTIC. dangerous though not fatal to a human. This dose was taken by 5 persons who vomited an unknown portion of the material and even so recovered only incompletely after 5 weeks. Smaller doses produced less important symptoms with relatively rapid recovery. Experimental ingestion of 1.5 g resulted in great discomfort and moderate neurological changes including paresthesia, tremor, moderate ataxia, exaggeration of part of the reflexes, headache, and fatigue. Vomiting followed only after 11 hours. Recovery was complete on the following day. The fatal dose of DDT for humans is not known. Judgmg from the literature, no one has ever been killed by DDT in the absence of other insecticides and/or a variety of toxic solvents. However, these common solvent formulations are highly fatal when taken in small doses, partly because of the toxicity of the solvent, and perhaps because of the increased absorbabihty of the DDT; several fatal cases in humans have been reported. Little is known of the hazard of chronic DDT poisoning. Human volunteers have ingested up to 35 mg/day for 21 months with no dl effects. products, particularly DDE, are stored in fat. This storage effect leads to a concentration of DDT at higher levels of the food chain. DDT stored in the fat is at least largely inactive since a greater total dose may be stored in an experimental animal than is sufficient as a lethal dose for that same animal if given at one time. A study based on 75 human cases reported an average of 5.3 ppm of DDT stored in the fat. A higher content of DDT and its derivatives (up to 434 pprn of DDE and 648 ppm of DDT) was found in workers who had very extensive exposure. Without exception, the samples were taken from persons who were either asymptomatic or suffering from some disease completely unrelated to DDT. Careful hospital examination of workers who had been very extensively exposed and who had volunteered for examination revealed no abnormahty that could be attributed to DDT. Much higher levels have been found in humans than have been observed in the fat of experimental animals that were apparently asymptomatic. DDT stored in the fat is eluninated only very gradually when further dosage is discontinued. However, weight loss can speed the release of this stored DDT (and DDE) into the blood. After a single dose, the secretion of DDT in the milk and its excretion in the urine reach their height within a day or two and continue at a lower level thereafter.
Hazardous Substances Data 50-29-3(Hazardous Substances Data)
Toxicity
LD50 in male, female rats (mg/kg): 113, 118 orally (Gaines, 1960)
IDLA 500 mg/m3

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