Pharmaceuticaid (plasticizer).
2-Ethylhexyl Diphenyl Phosphate can be used as a flame retardant, an additive or a plasticizer for resins. It is considered as an emerging contaminant.
ChEBI: Octicizer is an aryl phosphate.
Pale yellow liquid. Insoluble in water.
Organophosphates, such as 2-Ethylhexyl diphenyl phosphate, are susceptible to formation of highly toxic and flammable phosphine gas in the presence of strong reducing agents such as hydrides. Partial oxidation by oxidizing agents may result in the release of toxic phosphorus oxides
ACUTE/CHRONIC HAZARDS: Toxic. Hazardous decomposition products. Experimental carcinogen.
2-Ethylhexyl Diphenyl Phosphate has only a very low acute toxicity (LD50, oral, rat and rabbit, more than 24 000 mg/kg). No indications of carcinogenic effects were found in rats after two years of administration of the substance in the feed (up to 1%). 2-Ethylhexyl diphenyl phosphate was not genotoxic in the Ames test, the HGPRT test, and the in vivo chromosome aberration test in rats. No teratogenic effects were observed in rats, and development of the offspring was only impaired at maternally toxic doses.
Poison by intravenous
route. Moderately toxic by intraperitoneal
route. When heated to decomposition it
emits toxic fumes of POx,.
