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Methyl (S)-(-)-lactate

PubChem CID
94386
Structure
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Molecular Formula
Synonyms
  • 27871-49-4
  • Methyl (S)-(-)-lactate
  • Methyl L-lactate
  • (-)-Methyl L-lactate
  • (S)-Methyl lactate
Molecular Weight
104.10 g/mol
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Dates
  • Create:
    2005-08-08
  • Modify:
    2025-01-11
Description
Methyl (S)-lactate is a methyl 2-hydroxypropionate that has S configuration. It is an enantiomer of a methyl (R)-lactate.

1 Structures

1.1 2D Structure

Chemical Structure Depiction
Methyl (S)-(-)-lactate.png

1.2 3D Conformer

1.3 Crystal Structures

COD records with this CID as component

2 Names and Identifiers

2.1 Computed Descriptors

2.1.1 IUPAC Name

methyl (2S)-2-hydroxypropanoate
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2.1.2 InChI

InChI=1S/C4H8O3/c1-3(5)4(6)7-2/h3,5H,1-2H3/t3-/m0/s1
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2.1.3 InChIKey

LPEKGGXMPWTOCB-VKHMYHEASA-N
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2.1.4 SMILES

C[C@@H](C(=O)OC)O
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2.2 Molecular Formula

C4H8O3
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2.3 Other Identifiers

2.3.1 CAS

27871-49-4

2.3.2 Deprecated CAS

103315-49-7, 103515-49-7
103515-49-7

2.3.3 European Community (EC) Number

2.3.4 UNII

2.3.5 ChEBI ID

2.3.6 DSSTox Substance ID

2.3.7 Nikkaji Number

2.3.8 RXCUI

2.3.9 Wikidata

2.4 Synonyms

2.4.1 MeSH Entry Terms

  • methyl 2-hydroxypropionate
  • methyl lactate
  • methyl lactate, (+)-isomer
  • methyl lactate, (+-)-isomer
  • methyl lactate, (S)-isomer

2.4.2 Depositor-Supplied Synonyms

3 Chemical and Physical Properties

3.1 Computed Properties

Property Name
Molecular Weight
Property Value
104.10 g/mol
Reference
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Property Name
XLogP3-AA
Property Value
-0.1
Reference
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Property Name
Hydrogen Bond Donor Count
Property Value
1
Reference
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Property Name
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count
Property Value
3
Reference
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Property Name
Rotatable Bond Count
Property Value
2
Reference
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Property Name
Exact Mass
Property Value
104.047344113 Da
Reference
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Property Name
Monoisotopic Mass
Property Value
104.047344113 Da
Reference
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Property Name
Topological Polar Surface Area
Property Value
46.5 Ų
Reference
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Property Name
Heavy Atom Count
Property Value
7
Reference
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Property Name
Formal Charge
Property Value
0
Reference
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Property Name
Complexity
Property Value
69.3
Reference
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Property Name
Isotope Atom Count
Property Value
0
Reference
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Property Name
Defined Atom Stereocenter Count
Property Value
1
Reference
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Property Name
Undefined Atom Stereocenter Count
Property Value
0
Reference
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Property Name
Defined Bond Stereocenter Count
Property Value
0
Reference
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Property Name
Undefined Bond Stereocenter Count
Property Value
0
Reference
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Property Name
Covalently-Bonded Unit Count
Property Value
1
Reference
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Property Name
Compound Is Canonicalized
Property Value
Yes
Reference
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4 Spectral Information

4.1 1D NMR Spectra

4.1.1 1H NMR Spectra

Source of Spectrum
Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC.
Source of Sample
Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC.
Catalog Number
230340
Copyright
Copyright © 2021-2024 Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC. - Database Compilation Copyright © 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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4.1.2 13C NMR Spectra

Source of Spectrum
Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC.
Source of Sample
Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC.
Catalog Number
230340
Copyright
Copyright © 2021-2024 Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC. - Database Compilation Copyright © 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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4.2 Mass Spectrometry

4.2.1 GC-MS

1 of 2
MoNA ID
MS Category
Experimental
MS Type
GC-MS
MS Level
MS1
Instrument
HITACHI M-80
Instrument Type
EI-B
Ionization Mode
positive
Top 5 Peaks

45 99.99

104 10.49

61 8.87

33 6.55

89 4.27

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License
CC BY-NC-SA
2 of 2
Source of Spectrum
Prof. L. Mondello (Chromaleont s.r.l./Univ. Messina, Italy)
Copyright
Database Compilation Copyright © 2023-2024 John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Copyright © 2023-2024 John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Portions Copyright Wiley-VCH GmbH, Adams Library under license from Diablo Analytical. All Rights Reserved.
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4.3 IR Spectra

4.3.1 FTIR Spectra

1 of 2
Instrument Name
Bruker Tensor 27 FT-IR
Technique
Neat
Source of Spectrum
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
Source of Sample
Alfa Aesar, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Catalog Number
B24468
Lot Number
10191508
Copyright
Copyright © 2016-2024 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Technique
Neat
Source of Spectrum
Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC.
Source of Sample
Aldrich
Catalog Number
230340
Copyright
Copyright © 2018-2024 Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC. - Database Compilation Copyright © 2018-2024 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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4.3.2 ATR-IR Spectra

1 of 2
Instrument Name
Bruker Tensor 27 FT-IR
Technique
ATR-Neat (DuraSamplIR II)
Source of Spectrum
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
Source of Sample
Alfa Aesar, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Catalog Number
B24468
Lot Number
10191508
Copyright
Copyright © 2016-2024 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Source of Sample
Aldrich
Catalog Number
230340
Copyright
Copyright © 2018-2024 Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC. - Database Compilation Copyright © 2018-2024 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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4.3.3 Near IR Spectra

1 of 2
Instrument Name
BRUKER IFS 88
Technique
NIR Spectrometer= INSTRUMENT PARAMETERS=INST=BRUKER,RSN=6968,REO=2,CNM=HEI,ZFF=2
Source of Spectrum
Prof. Buback, University of Goettingen, Germany
Copyright
Copyright © 1989, 1990-2024 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. All Rights Reserved.
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Instrument Name
BRUKER IFS 88
Technique
NIR Spectrometer= INSTRUMENT PARAMETERS=INST=BRUKER,RSN=6968,REO=2,CNM=HEI,ZFF=2
Source of Spectrum
Prof. Buback, University of Goettingen, Germany
Copyright
Copyright © 1989, 1990-2024 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. All Rights Reserved.
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4.4 Raman Spectra

1 of 2
Instrument Name
Bruker MultiRAM Stand Alone FT-Raman Spectrometer
Technique
FT-Raman
Source of Spectrum
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
Source of Sample
Alfa Aesar, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Catalog Number
B24468
Lot Number
10191508
Copyright
Copyright © 2016-2024 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Catalog Number
230340
Copyright
Copyright © 2017-2024 Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC. - Database Compilation Copyright © 2017-2024 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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6 Chemical Vendors

7 Food Additives and Ingredients

7.1 Food Additive Classes

Flavoring Agents

8 Use and Manufacturing

8.1 Uses

EPA CPDat Chemical and Product Categories
The Chemical and Products Database, a resource for exposure-relevant data on chemicals in consumer products, Scientific Data, volume 5, Article number: 180125 (2018), DOI:10.1038/sdata.2018.125

8.1.1 Use Classification

Food additives -> Flavoring Agents

8.2 General Manufacturing Information

EPA TSCA Commercial Activity Status
Propanoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, methyl ester, (2S)-: ACTIVE
EPA TSCA Regulatory Flag
PMN - indicates a commenced PMN (Pre-Manufacture Notices) substance.

9 Safety and Hazards

9.1 Hazards Identification

9.1.1 GHS Classification

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Pictogram(s)
Flammable
Irritant
Signal
Warning
GHS Hazard Statements

H226 (100%): Flammable liquid and vapor [Warning Flammable liquids]

H319 (98.9%): Causes serious eye irritation [Warning Serious eye damage/eye irritation]

H335 (100%): May cause respiratory irritation [Warning Specific target organ toxicity, single exposure; Respiratory tract irritation]

Precautionary Statement Codes

P210, P233, P240, P241, P242, P243, P261, P264+P265, P271, P280, P303+P361+P353, P304+P340, P305+P351+P338, P319, P337+P317, P370+P378, P403+P233, P403+P235, P405, and P501

(The corresponding statement to each P-code can be found at the GHS Classification page.)

ECHA C&L Notifications Summary

Aggregated GHS information provided per 371 reports by companies from 13 notifications to the ECHA C&L Inventory. Each notification may be associated with multiple companies.

Information may vary between notifications depending on impurities, additives, and other factors. The percentage value in parenthesis indicates the notified classification ratio from companies that provide hazard codes. Only hazard codes with percentage values above 10% are shown.

9.1.2 Hazard Classes and Categories

Flam. Liq. 3 (100%)

Eye Irrit. 2A (98.9%)

STOT SE 3 (100%)

Flammable liquid - category 3

Eye irritation - category 2

Specific target organ toxicity (single exposure) - category 3

9.2 Regulatory Information

The Australian Inventory of Industrial Chemicals
Chemical: Propanoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, methyl ester, (S)-
REACH Registered Substance
New Zealand EPA Inventory of Chemical Status
(S)-(-)-Methyl lactate: Does not have an individual approval but may be used under an appropriate group standard

10 Literature

10.1 Consolidated References

10.2 NLM Curated PubMed Citations

10.3 Springer Nature References

10.4 Thieme References

10.5 Wiley References

10.6 Chemical Co-Occurrences in Literature

10.7 Chemical-Gene Co-Occurrences in Literature

11 Patents

11.1 Depositor-Supplied Patent Identifiers

11.2 WIPO PATENTSCOPE

11.3 Chemical Co-Occurrences in Patents

11.4 Chemical-Disease Co-Occurrences in Patents

11.5 Chemical-Gene Co-Occurrences in Patents

12 Taxonomy

13 Classification

13.1 MeSH Tree

13.2 ChEBI Ontology

13.3 ChemIDplus

13.4 UN GHS Classification

13.5 EPA CPDat Classification

13.6 NORMAN Suspect List Exchange Classification

13.7 EPA DSSTox Classification

13.8 EPA TSCA and CDR Classification

13.9 EPA Substance Registry Services Tree

13.10 MolGenie Organic Chemistry Ontology

14 Information Sources

  1. Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction Scheme (AICIS)
    Propanoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, methyl ester, (S)-
    https://services.industrialchemicals.gov.au/search-inventory/
  2. CAS Common Chemistry
    LICENSE
    The data from CAS Common Chemistry is provided under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 license, unless otherwise stated.
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
  3. ChemIDplus
    ChemIDplus Chemical Information Classification
    https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/source/ChemIDplus
  4. EPA Chemicals under the TSCA
    Propanoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, methyl ester, (2S)-
    https://www.epa.gov/chemicals-under-tsca
    EPA TSCA Classification
    https://www.epa.gov/tsca-inventory
  5. EPA DSSTox
    Propanoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, methyl ester, (2S)-
    https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/DTXSID9074359
    CompTox Chemicals Dashboard Chemical Lists
    https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical-lists/
  6. European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
    LICENSE
    Use of the information, documents and data from the ECHA website is subject to the terms and conditions of this Legal Notice, and subject to other binding limitations provided for under applicable law, the information, documents and data made available on the ECHA website may be reproduced, distributed and/or used, totally or in part, for non-commercial purposes provided that ECHA is acknowledged as the source: "Source: European Chemicals Agency, http://echa.europa.eu/". Such acknowledgement must be included in each copy of the material. ECHA permits and encourages organisations and individuals to create links to the ECHA website under the following cumulative conditions: Links can only be made to webpages that provide a link to the Legal Notice page.
    https://echa.europa.eu/web/guest/legal-notice
  7. FDA Global Substance Registration System (GSRS)
    LICENSE
    Unless otherwise noted, the contents of the FDA website (www.fda.gov), both text and graphics, are not copyrighted. They are in the public domain and may be republished, reprinted and otherwise used freely by anyone without the need to obtain permission from FDA. Credit to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the source is appreciated but not required.
    https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/about-website/website-policies#linking
  8. New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (EPA)
    LICENSE
    This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
    https://www.epa.govt.nz/about-this-site/general-copyright-statement/
  9. ChEBI
  10. Crystallography Open Database (COD)
    LICENSE
    All data in the COD and the database itself are dedicated to the public domain and licensed under the CC0 License. Users of the data should acknowledge the original authors of the structural data.
    https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  11. EPA Chemical and Products Database (CPDat)
    Propanoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, methyl ester, (2S)-
    https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/DTXSID9074359#exposure
  12. EU Food Improvement Agents
  13. Hazardous Chemical Information System (HCIS), Safe Work Australia
  14. Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council
    LICENSE
    The copyright for the editorial content of this source, the summaries of EU legislation and the consolidated texts, which is owned by the EU, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
    https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/legal-notice/legal-notice.html
  15. Japan Chemical Substance Dictionary (Nikkaji)
  16. MassBank of North America (MoNA)
    LICENSE
    The content of the MoNA database is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
    https://mona.fiehnlab.ucdavis.edu/documentation/license
  17. SpectraBase
    Propanoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, methyl ester, (S)-
    https://spectrabase.com/spectrum/Hf15ZWYY7ti
    Propanoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, methyl ester, (S)-
    https://spectrabase.com/spectrum/La2kRjUQKjm
  18. Natural Product Activity and Species Source (NPASS)
  19. NLM RxNorm Terminology
    LICENSE
    The RxNorm Terminology is created by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and is in the public domain and may be republished, reprinted and otherwise used freely by anyone without the need to obtain permission from NLM. Credit to the U.S. National Library of Medicine as the source is appreciated but not required. The full RxNorm dataset requires a free license.
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/docs/termsofservice.html
  20. Springer Nature
  21. Thieme Chemistry
    LICENSE
    The Thieme Chemistry contribution within PubChem is provided under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, unless otherwise stated.
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
  22. Wikidata
  23. Wiley
  24. PubChem
  25. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
    LICENSE
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    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/copyright.html
  26. GHS Classification (UNECE)
  27. NORMAN Suspect List Exchange
    LICENSE
    Data: CC-BY 4.0; Code (hosted by ECI, LCSB): Artistic-2.0
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    NORMAN Suspect List Exchange Classification
    https://www.norman-network.com/nds/SLE/
  28. EPA Substance Registry Services
  29. MolGenie
    MolGenie Organic Chemistry Ontology
    https://github.com/MolGenie/ontology/
  30. PATENTSCOPE (WIPO)
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