What is Propylene carbonate It is a biodegradable aliphatic polycarbonate derived from carbon dioxide and propylene oxide. It has a rather low glass transition temperature and becomes brittle at low ...

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What is Propylene carbonate

It is a biodegradable aliphatic polycarbonate derived from carbon dioxide and propylene oxide. It has a rather low glass transition temperature and becomes brittle at low temperature.

What is it for?

It is effective as a cleaner on hard surfaces, resins, glass fibers and polyurethanes.
It can be used as an intermediate reagent in the formation of carbamate, transesterification.

Most significant studies

An alternative low toxicity solvent (propylene carbonate; PC) proposed for the preparation of poly(lactic-co-glycolic-acid) microparticles (1).

Block polymer for drug delivery (2).

Molecular Formula :  C₄H₆O₃

Molecular Weight : 102.089 g/mol

CAS : 108-32-7

Synonyms :

• Carbonic acid, cyclic propylene ether
  
• 4-Methyl-2-oxo-1,3-dioxolane
  
• 1,3-Dioxolan-2-one, 4-methyl-
  
• Cyclic propylene carbonate
  
• 4-Methyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-one
  
• 1,2-Propylene carbonate
  
• 1,2-Propanediol cyclic carbonate
  
• 1-Methylethylene carbonate
  
• Cyclic 1,2-propylene carbonate
  
• Dipropylene carbonate
  
• EINECS 203-572-1

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