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TRIS(2-BUTOXYETHYL) PHOSPHATE

EC / List no.: 201-122-9
CAS no.: 78-51-3
Mol. formula: C18H39O7P

Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is a trialkyl phosphate in which the alkyl group specified is 2-butoxyethyl.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate has a role as an environmental contaminant and a flame retardant.
Tributoxyethyl phosphate is a slightly yellow viscous liquid.

Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is an organic flame retardant.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate shows PXR agonistic activity.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate was detected and quantified during the analysis of herring gull eggs by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization(+)-tandem mass spectrometry.

Use and Manufacturing
Used as a plasticizer for resins and elastomers, in floor finishes and waxes, as a flame retardant, as a plasticizer for rubber stoppers in blood specimen containers, and as a fire-resistant and light-stable plasticizer for products intended for food contact.
Occupational exposure is likely to be by skin absorption during production and from floor polishes.
Used as solvent for resins, a viscosity modifier in plastisols, and an antifoam agent for synthetic rubber, plastics, and lacquers.

Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate may be used as an analytical reference standard for the quantification of the analyte in herring gull eggs, house dust, and urine samples using liquid chromatography technique.

Primary plasticizer for most resins and elastomers, floor finishes and waxes, flame-retarding agent.

Industry Uses
• Adhesives and sealant chemicals
• Flame retardants
• Paint additives and coating additives not described by other categories
• Plasticizers

Consumer Uses
• Adhesives and sealants
• Cleaning and furnishing care products
• Lubricants and greases
• Paints and coatings
• Plastic and rubber products not covered elsewhere

Household & Commercial/Institutional Products
• Auto Products
• Commercial / Institutional
• Home Maintenance
• Inside the Home

General Manufacturing Information
Industry Processing Sectors
• Paint and coating manufacturing
• Plastic material and resin manufacturing
• Rubber product manufacturing
• Soap, cleaning compound, and toilet preparation manufacturing
• Synthetic rubber manufacturing
• Utilities
• Wholesale and retail trade

Slightly yellow, oily liquid.
Insoluble or limited solubility in glycerol, glycols, and certain amines, soluble in most organic liquids.

Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is a flame retardant plasticizer, mainly used for flame retardant and plasticizing of polyurethane rubber, cellulose, polyvinyl alcohol, etc., with good low temperature characteristics.
Plasticizer tbep is used as a flame retardant plasticizer and processing aid for rubber, cellulose and resin.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is recommended for acrylonitrile rubber, cellulose acetate, epoxy resin, ethyl cellulose, polyvinyl acetate and thermoplastic and thermosetting polyurethane.

Roles Classification
Chemical Role(s):
environmental contaminant
Any minor or unwanted substance introduced into the environment that can have undesired effects.

Application(s):
flame retardant
Any compound that is added to manufactured materials to inhibit, suppress, or delay the production of flames and so prevent the spread of fire.

Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate exhibits PXR agnostic activity and is an organic flame retardant.

Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is a phosphate ester that, thanks to its structure, can be used in many applications including plasticisation, solvation, flame retardancy and defoaming.

Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is in fact a multifunctional additive that may be used to modify the properties of many polymer systems and is a particularly good levelling aid and coalescent additive for emulsion polymers.

Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is used in a mixed solvent/aqueous system as a defoamer during production and as a secondary plasticiser in many polymers.
The above properties in combination with inherent flame retardancy makes Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate a real multifunctional additive essential to many polymer formulations.

Applications
in acrylic based polishes where its coalescent and plasticising properties will improve levelling and gloss, enabling a "dry bright" finish to be obtained.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate will also reduce surface defects such as streaking, crazing, and powdering. Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is used also in acrylic gloss paint formulations as a coalescent and defoamer.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate also helps to improve pigment wetting and rheological properties with a minimal effect on reflectance Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is a highly effective "knockdown" defoamer used extensively in paint, textile and paper industries.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is also used as a halogen free flame retardant additive in polymer systems.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate can be used also in conjunction with other flame retardants.
Tributoxyethyl Phosphate (TBEP) is used as a plasticizer for PVC, chlorinated rubber, and nitriles due to its flame retardant nature and good low temperature flexibility. TBEP is also used for emulsions of floor polishes, as leveling agent in latex paints and waxes, a processing aid for acrylonitrile rubber, and an antiblock agent for cast polyurethanes.

Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate acts as an additive flame retardant and plasticizer in plastics and synthetic rubbers.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate appears as a colorless clear liquid having molecular weight of 398.47.

TBEP is a light-colored, high-boiling, non-flammable viscous liquid.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is generally used as a plasticizer in rubber and plastics, and aids in floor polish formation (as well as in other surface coatings), leveling and improves gloss.

Used as a plasticizer for resins and elastomers, in floor finishes and waxes, as a flame retardant, as a plasticizer for rubber stoppers in blood specimen containers, and as a fire-resistant and light-stable plasticizer for products intended for food contact.
Occupational exposure is likely to be by skin absorption during production and from floor polishes.
Used as solvent for resins, a viscosity modifier in plastisols, and an antifoam agent for synthetic rubber, plastics, and lacquers;

Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate belongs to the class of organophosphate triesters, widely used as flame retardants and plasticizers in a variety of commercial products such as textiles, foams, polymers, paints, hydraulic fluids, etc.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is an organic flame retardant. It shows PXR agonistic activity.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate was detected and quantified during the analysis of herring gull eggs by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization(+)-tandem mass spectrometry.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is a trialkyl phosphate in which the alkyl group specified is 2-butoxyethyl.
It has a role as an environmental contaminant and a flame retardant.
Phosphate ester flame retardants are human-made chemicals added to consumer and industrial products for the purpose of reducing flammability.
Phosphate ester flame retardants are composed of a group of chemicals with similar properties but slightly different structures.
Phosphate esters are typically liquids at room temperature, however, some are solids.
Tributoxyethyl phosphate is a slightly yellow viscous liquid.

About Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate
Helpful information
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate 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.

Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is used by consumers, in articles, by professional workers (widespread uses), in formulation or re-packing and at industrial sites.

Consumer Uses
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is used in the following products: washing & cleaning products, polishes and waxes, plant protection products and water treatment chemicals.
Other release to the environment of Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is likely to occur from: indoor use as processing aid and outdoor use as processing aid.
Article service life
Release to the environment of Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate can occur from industrial use: as processing aid and of substances in closed systems with minimal release.
Other release to the environment of Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is likely to occur from: indoor use as processing aid, indoor use in long-life materials with low release rate (e.g. flooring, furniture, toys, construction materials, curtains, foot-wear, leather products, paper and cardboard products, electronic equipment), outdoor use as processing aid and outdoor use in long-life materials with low release rate (e.g. metal, wooden and plastic construction and building materials).
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate can be found in products with material based on: wood (e.g. floors, furniture, toys), plastic (e.g. food packaging and storage, toys, mobile phones) and paper (e.g. tissues, feminine hygiene products, nappies, books, magazines, wallpaper).
Widespread uses by professional workers
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is used in the following products: plant protection products, hydraulic fluids, lubricants and greases, metal working fluids, washing & cleaning products and polishes and waxes. Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate has an industrial use resulting in manufacture of another substance (use of intermediates). Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is used in the following areas: agriculture, forestry and fishing and formulation of mixtures and/or re-packaging. Other release to the environment of Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is likely to occur from: outdoor use as processing aid and indoor use as processing aid.

Formulation or re-packing
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is used in the following products: polymers and textile treatment products and dyes.
Release to the environment of Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate can occur from industrial use: formulation in materials and formulation of mixtures.
Uses at industrial sites
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is used in the following products: polymers, textile treatment products and dyes and washing & cleaning products.
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is used for the manufacture of: plastic products and textile, leather or fur.
Release to the environment of Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate can occur from industrial use: in the production of articles, as processing aid and in processing aids at industrial sites.
Manufacture
ECHA has no public registered data on the routes by which Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate is most likely to be released to the environment.

IUPAC NAMES:
Ethanol, 2-butoxy-, phosphate (3:1)
TBEP
Tributoxyethyl Phosphate
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) Phosphate
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate
tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate
Tris(2-butoxyethyl)phosphate

SYNONYMS:
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate
78-51-3
TRI(2-BUTOXYETHYL) PHOSPHATE
TBEP
Tributoxyethyl phosphate
Phosflex T-bep
Tris(butoxyethyl) phosphate
tris(2-butoxyethyl)phosphate
Ethanol, 2-butoxy-, phosphate (3:1)
Tri(butoxyethyl) phosphate
Kronitex KP-140
Tributyl cellosolve phosphate
KP 140
Phosphoric acid, tributoxyethyl ester
Phosphoric acid, tris(2-butoxyethyl) ester
Tri(2-butoxyethanol)phosphate
NSC 4839
Tris-(2-butoxyethyl)fosfat
UNII-RYA6940G86
Ethanol, 2-butoxy-, 1,1',1''-phosphate
tributoxy ethyl phosphate
2-Butoxyethanol phosphate
Tris(butoxyethyl)phosphate
CHEBI:35038
RYA6940G86
tris[2-(butyloxy)ethyl] phosphate
TBEP;KP 140;Hostaphat B 310
Phosphoric acid, tri-(2-butoxyethyl) ester
DSSTox_CID_1758
DSSTox_RID_76309
Ethanol, phosphate (3:1)
DSSTox_GSID_21758
WLN: 4O2OPO&O2O4&O2O4
2-Butoxyethanol, phosphate
CAS-78-51-3
Phosphoric acid, tri(butoxyethyl) ester
CCRIS 5942
Tri(2-butoxyethanol) phosphate
HSDB 2564
2-Butoxyethanol phosphate (3:1)
EINECS 201-122-9
Tris-(2-butoxyethyl)fosfat [Czech]
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate,C18H39O7P,78-51-3
BRN 1716010
tris-2-butoxyethyl phosphate
AI3-04596
C18H39O7P
Amgard TBEP
MFCD00009456
Phosphoric Acid Tris(2-butoxyethyl) Ester
EC 201-122-9
tris-(2-butoxyethyl)phosphate
2-Butoxy-ethanol phosphate (3:1)
Phosphoric acid tris(2-butoxyethyl)
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate, 94%
TRI-(2-BUTOXYETHYL)-PHOSPHATE
Tris(2-butoxyethyl)ester phosphoric acid
Phosphoric acid tris(2-n-butoxyethyl)ester
Phosphoric acid tris(2-n-butoxyethyl) ester
A915093
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate, analytical standard
W-104277
Q27116378
2-butoxy
2-Butoxy-ethanol phosphate (3:1)
2-Butoxy-ethanolphosphate(3:1)
2-butoxy-ethanophosphate(3:1)
Amgard TBEP
Ethanol, 2-butoxy-, phosphate (3:1)
tri(butoxyethyl)
Tri(butylcellosolve)phosphate
Tributyl cellosolve phosphate
tributylcellosolvephosphate
Tris(2-butoxyethyl)ester phosphoric acid
Tris-(2-butoxyethyl)fosfat
Tris2-butoxyethyl
TBXP
TRIS(BUTOXYETHYL) PHOSPHATE 98%
TRIS(BUTOXYETHYL)PHOSPHATE (TBEP)
Tris-(2-butoxyethyl)-phosphat
Tributoxylethyl Phosphate
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate | TBEP
O,O,O-Tris(2-butoxyethyl)phosphate
Tri(2-butoxyethyl) phospha
Tris(3-butoxyethyl) phosphate
Phosphoric acid tris(2-butoxyethyl)
TRIS(2-BUTOXYETHANOL)PHOSPHATE
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate,95%
Tributoxyethyl Phosphate (TBEP)
PHOSPHORIC ACID TRIS(2-N-BUTOXYETHYL) ESTER
PHOSPHORIC ACID TRIS(2-BUTOXYETHYL) ESTER
TBEP
TRI(BUTOXYETHYL)PHOSPHATE
TRIS(BUTOXYETHYL) PHOSPHATE
TRIS(2-BUTOXYETHYL) PHOSPHATE
ethanol,2-butoxy-,phosphate(3:1)
KP 140
kp140
KP-140
Kronitex kp-140
kronitexkp-140
Phosflex T-bep
phosflext-bep
Phosphoric Acid, tributoxyethyl ester
Tri(2-butoxyethanol)phosphate
Tri(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate
tri(2-butoxyethyl)phosphate
2-BUTOXYETHANOL PHOSPHATE
Plasticizer TBEP
Ethanol, 2-butoxy-, 1,1',1''-phosphate
Tris(2-butoxyethyl)Phosphate>
tris(2-Butoxyethyl) Phosphate (TBEP) @100 μg/mL in Toluene
Tri-butoxyethyl phosphate@1000 μg/mL in Hexane
Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate Solution in Acetone, 100μg/mL
ris(2-butoxyethyl)phosphate
TBEP/KP-140/Tris(2-butoxyethyl) phosphate/Tributoxy Ethyl Phosphate