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EMA (ETHYL METHACRYLATE)


CAS NO:97-63-2
EC NO:202-597-5

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is a type of acrylic monomer (liquid) that is used in most acrylic systems.

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is considered a methacrylic acid ethyl ester. 
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is the main ingredient in most nail acrylic monomers. Most legal acrylic monomers consist of EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) in the range of 70%-90%. By blending other components into the EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate), a manufacturer can control curing time, flexibility, adhesion, yellowing, clarity, color and odor.

Description:
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is a chemical compound from the group of carboxylic acid esters and the ethyl ester of methacrylic acid. 
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is a highly flammable, volatile, colorless liquid with a characteristic odor

Properties of EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate):
-Flammable
-Colorless
-Liquid

Applications of EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate):
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used to make acrylic polymers and plastic additives.

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is produced for use as a building block to make a wide range of polymer based products that we see and use every day from paints and coatings, toners and inks, to dental and medical products to name but a few.

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) can be produced organic glass, synthetic resin and coating and so no by aggregation or copolymerized with other monomer.

Purity: ≥99.5%(GC)
Acid value (MAA): ≤0.02%
Moisture: ≤0.02%
Color: ≤10(Pt-Co)
Inhibitor: 20±5ppm MEHQ

PHYSICAL DATA:
Appearance: clear, colorless liquid
Odor: ester-like
Molecular weight: 114.1 g/mol
Density: 0.91 g/cm3 (20℃)
Refractive index: 1.415 (20℃)
Boiling point: +118℃(1013 mbar)
Solidfication -75℃
Vapor pressure 21.3mbar(59℃)
Viscosity: 0.63 mPa.s (20℃)
Flash point: +15℃
Polymer vitrification point: 65℃
Solubility (20℃):
0.40%(ester in water)
0.77%(water in ester)

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) appears as a colorless moderately toxic liquid with an acrid odor. Flash point of 70°F. Boiling point 278°F. Vapors irritate the eyes and respiratory system. Less dense than water. Not soluble in water. Used to make polymers and other chemicals.

Acrylates and methacrylates are monomers that are combined with other monomers or polymers to produce plastics used in cosmetics, medicine, dentistry, and manufacturing industries. 
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used to make polymers with applications in building, automotive, aerospace, and furniture industries and in dentures, paints, coatings, contact lenses, and cosmetics; 
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is also used as chemical intermediate.

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used to make polymers, which in turn are used for building, automotive, aerospace, and furniture industries.

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used as a comonomer in acrylic polymers for surface coating resins, acrylic emulsion polymers for polishes, etc; 
comonomer in denture-base material; and used as a chemical intermediate.

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is the organic compound with the formula C2H5O2CC(CH3)=CH2. A colorless liquid, it is a common monomer for the preparation of acrylate polymers.
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is typically polymerized under free-radical conditions.

Properties:
Chemical formula:    C6H10O2
Molar mass:    114.144 g·mol−1
Appearance:    colorless liquid
Density:    0.9135 g/cm3
Boiling point:    117 °C (243 °F; 390 K)

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is an organic compound having the chemical formula C2H5O2CC(CH3)=CH2. 
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is a colorless liquid, and it is considered as a common monomer of preparing acrylate polymers. Typically, this monomer undergoes polymerization under free-radical conditions.
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate)’s important to know that acrylate esters can irritate the eyes and can cause blindness.

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is a type of acrylic monomer liquid that is very useful in most acrylic systems. This monomer is considered a methacrylic acid ethyl ester, and it is the major ingredient in most nail acrylic monomers. 
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) occurs as a colorless, moderately toxic liquid with an acrid odor.

Chemical Properties
colourless liquid with an unpleasant odour

Chemical Properties
Ethyl methacrylate is a clear, colorless, and highly flammable liquid that polymerizes but at a slower rate than that of the parent acrylate.

Uses
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) can be manufactured via a reaction of methacrylic acid or methyl acrylate with ethanol. 
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used primarily for manufacturing polymers and as a component of acrylic polymers for surface coatings and as a structural monomer for some artificial fingernail formulations.

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used in dental protheses or in photobonded sculptured nails.

Polymers, chemical intermediates.

Production Methods
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) can be manufactured via a reaction of methacrylic acid or methyl acrylate with ethanol.

General Description
A colorless moderately toxic liquid with an acrid odor. Flash point of 70°F. Boiling point 278°F. Vapors irritate the eyes and respiratory system. Less dense than water. Not soluble in water. Used to make polymers and other chemicals.

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used to prepare copolymers of EMA on waxy maize starch and hydroxypropylstarch, potential application of these copolymers are as excipients for compressed non-disintegrating matrix tablets. 
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is also used to study reactions of n-butyl acrylate and EMA with ozone in the gas phase.

About EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate)
Helpful information
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is registered under the REACH Regulation and is manufactured in and / or imported to the European Economic Area, at ≥ 1 000 to < 10 000 tonnes per annum.

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used by consumers, in articles, by professional workers (widespread uses), in formulation or re-packing, at industrial sites and in manufacturing.

Consumer Uses
ECHA has no public registered data indicating whether or in which chemical products the substance might be used. Other release to the environment of EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is likely to occur from: indoor use (e.g. machine wash liquids/detergents, automotive care products, paints and coating or adhesives, fragrances and air fresheners) and outdoor use.

Article service life
Other release to the environment of EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is likely to occur from: indoor use (e.g. machine wash liquids/detergents, automotive care products, paints and coating or adhesives, fragrances and air fresheners), outdoor use and outdoor use in long-life materials with low release rate (e.g. metal, wooden and plastic construction and building materials).
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) can be found in complex articles, with no release intended: vehicles and electrical batteries and accumulators.
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) can be found in products with material based on: plastic (e.g. food packaging and storage, toys, mobile phones), fabrics, textiles and apparel (e.g. clothing, mattress, curtains or carpets, textile toys), leather (e.g. gloves, shoes, purses, furniture), paper (e.g. tissues, feminine hygiene products, nappies, books, magazines, wallpaper) and rubber (e.g. tyres, shoes, toys).

Widespread uses by professional workers
ECHA has no public registered data indicating whether or in which chemical products the substance might be used. EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used in the following areas: building & construction work.
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used for the manufacture of: .
Other release to the environment of EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is likely to occur from: outdoor use and indoor use (e.g. machine wash liquids/detergents, automotive care products, paints and coating or adhesives, fragrances and air fresheners).

Formulation or re-packing
ECHA has no public registered data indicating whether or in which chemical products the substance might be used. Release to the environment of EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) can occur from industrial use: formulation of mixtures and formulation in materials.

Uses at industrial sites
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used in the following products: coating products, metal surface treatment products and paper chemicals and dyes.
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used in the following areas: mining.
EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is used for the manufacture of: and plastic products.
Release to the environment of EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) can occur from industrial use: for thermoplastic manufacture, as an intermediate step in further manufacturing of another substance (use of intermediates) and in the production of articles.

Manufacture
Release to the environment of EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) can occur from industrial use: manufacturing of the substance, in processing aids at industrial sites, in the production of articles, as an intermediate step in further manufacturing of another substance (use of intermediates), as processing aid, for thermoplastic manufacture, as processing aid and of substances in closed systems with minimal release.

EMA (Ethyl Methacrylate) is the ester of ethyl alcohol and methacrylic acid used in artificial fingernail enhancement products. 

Formula: CH2=C(CH3)COO(C2H5) / C6H10O2
Molecular mass: 114.2
Boiling point: 117°C
Melting point: -75°C
Relative density (water = 1): 0.91
Solubility in water: poor
Vapour pressure, kPa at 20°C: 2
Relative vapour density (air = 1): 3.9
Relative density of the vapour/air-mixture at 20°C (air = 1): 1.01
Flash point: 20°C o.c.
Auto-ignition temperature: 450°C
Explosive limits, vol% in air: 1.8
Octanol/water partition coefficient as log Pow: 1.94  

IUPAC names:
2-Propenoic acid, 2-methyl-, ethyl ester
EMA
ethyl 2-methylprop-2-enoate
ETHYL METHACRYLATE
Ethyl methacrylate
ethyl methacrylate
Ethyl Methacrylate
Ethyl methacrylate
Ethyl Methacrylate (stabilized with HQ)

SYNONYMS:
202-597-5 [EINECS]
230-391-5 [EINECS]
2G95FOH7SF
2-methyl-2-propenoic acid
2OVY1&U1 [WLN]
2-Propenoic acid, 2-methyl-, ethyl ester [ACD/Index Name]
7085-85-0 [RN]
80F70CLT4O
97-63-2 [RN]
Ethyl 2-methyl-2-propenoate
Ethyl methacrylate [ACD/IUPAC Name]
Ethyl methylacrylate
Ethyl-2-methylprop-2-enoat
Ethylmethacrylat [German] [ACD/IUPAC Name]
Méthacrylate d'éthyle [French] [ACD/IUPAC Name]
MFCD00009161 [MDL number]
OZ4550000
2-hydroxypropanoic acid, ion(1-)
2-hydroxypropionate
2-methyl-2-propenoic acid ester
2-Methyl-2-propenoic acid ethyl ester
2-Methyl-2-propenoic acid, ethyl ester
2-methylacrylic acid ethyl ester
2-Methyl-acrylic acid ethyl ester
2-Methylacrylic acid, ethyl ester
2-Methyl-acrylicacidethylester
2-methylprop-2-enoic acid ethyl ester
2-Propenoic acid, 2-methyl, homopolymer, ethyl ester
4-03-00-00643 [Beilstein]
Actylol
Acytol
EMA
Ethyl 2-methacrylate
Ethyl 2-methyl-2-propenoate homopolymer
Ethyl 2-methylacrylate
ETHYL 2-METHYLPROPENOATE


 

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