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 Category:information only not used for fragrances or flavors 
  
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Physical Properties: 
| Appearance: | yellow powder (est) |  
| Assay: |  97.00 to 100.00 
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| Food Chemicals Codex Listed:  | No |  
| Melting Point: |  131.00 °C. @  760.00 mm Hg
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| Boiling Point: |  350.00 to  353.00 °C. @  760.00 mm Hg
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| Congealing Point: | 132.00 °C.
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| Vapor Pressure: | 0.000084 mmHg @  25.00 °C. (est) |  
| Flash Point: | > 200.00 °F. TCC ( >  93.33 °C. )
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| logP (o/w): |   4.839 (est) |  
| Soluble in: |  
|   | 1.05 gms to 100 gms alcohol |  |   | 16.7 gms to 100 gms benzyl benzoate |  |   | 4.19 gms to 100 gms methyl carbitol |  |   | 24.2 gms to 100 gms diethyl phthalate |  |   | 25.9 gms to 100 gms dimethyl phthalate |  |   | water, 0.1661 mg/L @ 25 °C (est) |  
| Insoluble in: |  
|   | water |  
 
  
Organoleptic Properties: 
| Odor Type: musk |  
Odor Strength:medium , recommend smelling in a 10.00 % solution or less |  
| Substantivity:400 hour(s) at 20.00 % |  
| sweet musk ambrette powdery dry  |  
Odor Description:at 10.00 % in benzyl benzoate. sweet musk ambrette ketone powdery dry Luebke, William  tgsc, (1985) |  
| Odor sample from: Givaudan Corporation |  
| Odor and/or flavor descriptions from others (if found). |  
 
  
Cosmetic Information: 
  
Suppliers: 
| BOC Sciences |  
| For experimental / research use only. |  
| 1,1,3,3,5-PENTAMETHYL-4,6-DINITROINDANE
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| Santa Cruz Biotechnology |  
| For experimental / research use only. |  
| Musk moskene solution
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| Sigma-Aldrich: Aldrich |  
| For experimental / research use only. |  
| 4,6-Dinitro-1,1,3,3,5-pentamethylindane
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Safety Information: 
| Preferred SDS: View |  
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| Hazards identification |  
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|  Classification of the substance or mixture |  
| GHS Classification in accordance with 29 CFR 1910 (OSHA HCS) |  
| None found. |  
|  GHS Label elements, including precautionary statements |  
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| Pictogram |  |  
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| Hazard statement(s) |  
| None found. |  
| Precautionary statement(s) |  
| None found. |  
| Oral/Parenteral Toxicity:  |  
oral-rat LD50  > 5000 mg/kg Food and Cosmetics Toxicology. Vol. 17, Pg. 885, 1979.
  
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| Dermal Toxicity:  |  
skin-rabbit LD50 > 5000 mg/kg Food and Cosmetics Toxicology. Vol. 17, Pg. 885, 1979.
  
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| Inhalation Toxicity:  |  
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Not determined
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Safety in Use Information: 
| Category:  |  | information only not used for fragrances or flavors |  
| IFRA Critical Effect:  |  |  Insufficient data |  
|   | View the IFRA Standard |  
| Recommendation for moskene (Givaudan) usage levels up to:  |  |   | PROHIBITED: Should not be used as a fragrance ingredient.
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| Recommendation for moskene (Givaudan) flavor usage levels up to:  |  
|   | not for flavor use.
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Safety References: 
  
References: 
  
Other Information: 
  
Potential Blenders and core components  note 
  
Potential Uses: 
  
Occurrence (nature, food, other): note 
  
Synonyms: 
| 1-tert- | butyl-3,5-dinitro-1-isopropyl-4-methylbenzene |  | 4,6- | dinitro-1,1,3,3,5-pentamethyl indan |  | 4,6- | dinitro-1,1,3,3,5-pentamethylindan |  | 4,6- | dinitro-1,1,3,3,5-pentamethylindane |  |   | indan, 1,1,3,3,5-pentamethyl-4,6-dinitro- |  |   | indan, 4,6-dinitro-1,1,3,3,5-pentamethyl- |  | 1H- | indene, 2,3-dihydro-1,1,3,3,5-pentamethyl-4,6-dinitro- |  |   | moskene (Givaudan) |  |   | musk moskene |  | 1,1,3,3,5- | pentamethyl-4,6-dinitro-2,3-dihydro-1H-indene |  | 1,1,3,3,5- | pentamethyl-4,6-dinitro-2H-indene |  | 1,2,3,3,5- | pentamethyl-4,6-dinitro-indan |  | 1,1,3,3,5- | pentamethyl-4,6-dinitroindan |  | 1,1,3,3,5- | pentamethyl-4,6-dinitroindane |  | 1,1,3,3,5- | pentamethyl-4,6-dinitrolindan |  
 
  
Articles:
| PubMed:Headspace stir bar sorptive extraction followed by thermal desorption and gas chromatography with mass spectrometry to determine musk fragrances in sludge samples without sample pretreatment. |  
| PubMed:Analysis of 7 synthetic musks in cream by supported liquid extraction and solid phase extraction followed by GC-MS/MS. |  
| PubMed:Determination of polycyclic and nitro musks in environmental water samples by means of microextraction by packed sorbents coupled to large volume injection-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis. |  
| PubMed:[Determination of synthetic nitro-musks in cosmetics by gas chromatography coupled with negative chemical ionization-triple quadrupole mass spectrometry]. |  
| PubMed:Fully automated ionic liquid-based headspace single drop microextraction coupled to GC-MS/MS to determine musk fragrances in environmental water samples. |  
| PubMed:Determination of synthetic musk compounds in indoor house dust by gas chromatography-ion trap mass spectrometry. |  
| PubMed:Multicomponent analytical methodology to control phthalates, synthetic musks, fragrance allergens and preservatives in perfumes. |  
| PubMed:High-sensitivity analysis of six synthetic musks by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-atmospheric pressure photoionization-tandem mass spectrometry. |  
| PubMed:Occurrence of synthetic musks in indoor dust from China and implications for human exposure. |  
| PubMed:Optimization of a sensitive method for the determination of nitro musk fragrances in waters by solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography with micro electron capture detection using factorial experimental design. |  
| PubMed:Analysis of neutral nitromusks in incenses by capillary electrophoresis in organic solvents and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. |  
| PubMed:Simultaneous congener-specific determination of selected organochlorine compounds and nitro musks in human whole blood samples by solid-phase extraction and capillary gas chromatography with electron capture detection. |  
| PubMed:Estrogenic activity of cosmetic components in reporter cell lines: parabens, UV screens, and musks. |  
| PubMed:Further solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry applications: "on-fibre" and aqueous photodegradation of nitro musks. |  
| PubMed:Determination of musk compounds in sewage treatment plant sludge samples by solid-phase microextraction. |  
| PubMed:Nitromusk compounds in women with gynecological and endocrine dysfunction. |  
| PubMed:Analysis of nitro musk compounds and their amino metabolites in liquid sewage sludges using NMR and mass spectrometry. |  
| PubMed:Kinetics of nitromusk compounds degradation in water by ultraviolet radiation and hydrogen peroxide. |  
| PubMed:Nitro musks, nitro musk amino metabolites and polycyclic musks in sewage sludges. Quantitative determination by HRGC-ion-trap-MS/MS and mass spectral characterization of the amino metabolites. |  
| PubMed:Interactions of nitromusk parent compounds and their amino-metabolites with the estrogen receptors of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and the South African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis). |  
| PubMed:Toxicity of nitromusks in early lifestages of South African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and zebrafish (Danio rerio). |  
| PubMed:Contact allergy to musk moskene in a perfumed moisturizing cream. |  
| PubMed:Genotoxicity of nitro musks in the micronucleus test with human lymphocytes in vitro and the human hepatoma cell line Hep G2. |  
| PubMed:Nitro musk compounds genotoxic activity : Genotoxicity testing of nitro musks with the SOS-chromotest and the sister-chromatid exchange test. |  
| PubMed:Occurrence of nitro and non-nitro benzenoid musk compounds in human adipose tissue. |  
| PubMed:A comparative study of five nitro musk compounds for genotoxicity in the SOS chromotest and Salmonella mutagenicity. |  
| PubMed:[Mutagenicity, genotoxicity and cogenotoxicity of environmentally relevant nitro musk compounds]. |  
| PubMed:[Nitro-musk compounds in breast milk]. |  
| PubMed:Pigmented contact dermatitis due to musk moskene. |  
| PubMed:90-day dermal toxicity study and neurotoxicity evaluation of nitromusks in the albino rat. |  
| PubMed:Photoallergic potential in the guinea-pig of the nitromusk perfume ingredients musk ambrette, musk moskene, musk xylene, musk ketone, and musk tibetene. |  
| PubMed:Contact and photocontact allergy to musk ambrette. |  
| PubMed:Phototoxicity, photoallergy, and contact sensitization of nitro musk perfume raw materials. |  
| PubMed:Contact allergy to photoproducts of musk ambrette. |  
| PubMed:Thin layer chromatography and high pressure liquid chromatography of musk ambrette and other nitromusk compounds including photopatch studies. |  
| PubMed:Photosensitivity to musk ambrette. |  
 
  
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