Name: Oxalic acid

Other name: oxalic acid

Chemical formula: H2C2O4

Molecular weight: 90.03

CAS Registry Number: 144-62-7

EINECS accession number: 205-634-3

Melting point: 101～102℃

Water solubility: soluble in water

Density: 1.653g/mL

External view: colorless monoclinic sheet

Safety description: low toxicity

Hazard description: harmful

Dangerous goods transport code: UN3261 8/PG 3

Structural formula: HOOCCOOH

Regulatory information: This product is not regulated

Acidity: Weakly acidic

use

1. Complexing agent, masking agent, precipitation agent, reducing agent.

2. In the pharmaceutical industry, it is used to manufacture chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, tetracycline, streptomycin, borneol, vitamin B12, phenobarbital and other drugs.

3. In the printing and dyeing industry, it is used as a color-developing auxiliary, bleaching agent, and pharmaceutical intermediate. The plastics industry is used to produce polyvinyl chloride, amino plastics, and urea-formaldehyde plastics.