CAS 3602-55-9 | 2-tert-Butyl-1,4-benzoquinone

CHEMICAL IDENTIFICATION

RTECS NUMBER :

DK3790000

CHEMICAL NAME :

p-Benzoquinone, 2-tert-butyl-

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER :

3602-55-9

BEILSTEIN REFERENCE NO. :

1860944

LAST UPDATED :

199612

DATA ITEMS CITED :

6

MOLECULAR FORMULA :

C10-H12-O2

MOLECULAR WEIGHT :

164.22

WISWESSER LINE NOTATION :

L6V DVJ BX1&1&1

HEALTH HAZARD DATA

ACUTE TOXICITY DATA

MUTATION DATA

TYPE OF TEST :

Cytogenetic analysis

TEST SYSTEM :

Rodent - hamster Lung

DOSE/DURATION :

1500 ug/L

REFERENCE :

MUREAV Mutation Research. (Elsevier Science Pub. B.V., POB 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, Netherlands) V.1- 1964- Volume(issue)/page/year: 241,125,1990

Drug Metab. Pharmacokinet. 27(5) , 553-8, (2012)

2-tert-Butylhydroquinone (BHQ), an antioxidant used as a food additive, exhibits an anticancer effect, whereas it is carcinogenic in rodents at high doses. BHQ is metabolized into cytotoxic tert-butyl...

Arch. Toxicol. 86(9) , 1481-7, (2012)

At high concentrations, tert-butylhydroquinone (tBHQ), a phenolic antioxidant frequently used as a food preservative, exerts cytotoxic effects, which are closely linked to its ability to form reactive...

Chem. Biol. Interact. 71(4) , 381-92, (1989)

The effect of several structurally related 1,4-benzoquinones (BQ) and 1,4-naphthoquinones (NQ) on the activity of rat hepatic glutathione S-transferases (GST) was studied. For the 1,4-benzoquinones, t...