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BHC

CAS No.
608-73-1
Chemical Name:
BHC
Synonyms
dol;HCH;hexachlor;BENZENE HEXACHLORIDE;hexachlorocyclohexanes;BHC;fbhc;gyben;kotol;gamtox
CBNumber:
CB7190232
Molecular Formula:
C6H6Cl6
Molecular Weight:
290.83
MDL Number:
MFCD00003825
MOL File:
608-73-1.mol
Last updated:2023-05-15 10:43:25

BHC Properties

Melting point 112.75°C
Boiling point 373.64°C (rough estimate)
Density 1.8700
refractive index 1.5691 (estimate)
solubility DMSO (Slightly), Methanol (Slightly)
form Powder or Flakes
color White,crystalline powder
Water Solubility 31.4mg/L(25 ºC)
FDA UNII 5477B350EK
EPA Substance Registry System 1,2,3,4,5,6-Hexachlorocyclohexane (608-73-1)

SAFETY

Risk and Safety Statements

Symbol(GHS)  GHS hazard pictogramsGHS hazard pictogramsGHS hazard pictograms
GHS06,GHS08,GHS09
Signal word  Danger
Hazard statements  H301-H312-H351-H362-H373-H410
Precautionary statements  P260-P263-P273-P280-P301+P310-P302+P352+P312
Hazard Codes  T,N
Risk Statements  21-25-40-50/53-64-48/22-20/21
Safety Statements  22-36/37-45-60-61
RIDADR  2761
WGK Germany  3
RTECS  GV4375000
HazardClass  6.1(b)
PackingGroup  III
Toxicity otr-rat-orl 875 mg/kg/7W-I CRNGDP 5,479,84

BHC price More Price(3)

Manufacturer Product number Product description CAS number Packaging Price Updated Buy
Sigma-Aldrich 36756 HCH PESTANAL 608-73-1 250mg $59.7 2024-03-01 Buy
TRC B372008 BHC,mixtureofisomers(α:β:γ:δ=1:1:1:1) 608-73-1 50mg $105 2021-12-16 Buy
American Custom Chemicals Corporation PST0000336 1,2,3,4,5,6-HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE 98.00% 608-73-1 50ML $2728 2021-12-16 Buy
Product number Packaging Price Buy
36756 250mg $59.7 Buy
B372008 50mg $105 Buy
PST0000336 50ML $2728 Buy

BHC Chemical Properties,Uses,Production

Chemical Properties

BHC is a white-to-brownish crystalline solid with a musty, phosgene-like odor.

Uses

Insecticide.

Definition

An environmentally persistent constituent of a wide variety of agricultural, medical, and veterinary products.

General Description

White to yellow powder or flakes. Musty odor. The gamma isomer is known as lindane, a systemic insecticide. Toxic by ingestion or inhalation.

Reactivity Profile

Halogenated aliphatic compounds, such as HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE, are moderately or very reactive. Reactivity generally decreases with increased degree of substitution of halogen for hydrogen atoms. Materials in this group may be incompatible with strong oxidizing and reducing agents. Also, they may be incompatible with many amines, nitrides, azo/diazo compounds, alkali metals, and epoxides.

Hazard

Highly toxic; questionable carcinogen.

Safety Profile

Confirmed carcinogen with experimental carcinogenic, neoplastigenic, and tumorigenic data by ingestion and skin contact. Poison by ingestion, skin contact, and subcutaneous routes. Human systemic effects by inhalation: headache, nausea or vomiting, and fever. Implicated in aplastic anemia. Experimental reproductive effects. Mutation data reported. Lindane is more toxic than DDT or dieldrin. Potentially violent reaction with dlmethylformamide + iron. When heated to decomposition it emits highly toxic fumes of phosgene, HCl, and Cl-. See other benzenehexachloride entries. A toxic organochlorine that is persistent in the environment and accumulates in mammalian tissue. For cattle, the oral LD50 <= 100 mg/kg. The various isomers have dlfferent actions; the y (lindane) and a isomers are central nervous system stimulants, the principal symptom being convulsions. The p and A isomers are central nervous system depressants. The use of thermal vaporizers with lindane has caused acute poisoning by inhalation. mixture has been estimated at about 30 g and the dangerous dose of lindane at about 7 to 15 g. However, as already mentioned, a single dose of 45 mg (or approximately 0.65 mg/kg) of lindane caused convulsions. Lindane shows a marked dfference in toxicity to dfferent species. Its toxic effect on laboratory animals compares favorably with that of DDT, but for several domestic animals, notably calves, hdane is more toxic than DDT or Qeldrin. On a chronic systemic basis the a, p and y isomers are experimental carcinogens. Has been implicated in aplastic anemia. Dermatitis and perhaps other manifestations based on sensitivity represent a sort of chronic, though probably not systemic intoxication, which has been observed in humans. The signs and symptoms of confirmed acute poisoning in humans have paralleled those in experimental animals. These signs and symptoms are: excitation, hyperirritability, loss of equhbrium, clonictonic convulsions, and later depression.There is some evidence that the pulmonary edema and vascular collapse may be of neurogenic origm also. The symptoms in animals systemically poisoned by the yisomer alone are essentially similar to those caused by mixtures, although the onset may be earlier. Workers acutely exposed to high air concentrations of lindane and its decomposition products show headache, nausea, and irritation of eyes, nose, and throat. In rare instances, urticaria has followed exposure to lindane vapor. Unlike the signs and symptoms already mentioned, this allergic manifestation occurs only in susceptible individuals, and usually only after a period of sensitization.

Potential Exposure

The major commercial usage of BHC is based upon its insecticidal properties. α-BCH is used as an Agricultural chemical, pesticide, pharmaceutical, and veterinary drug. The 7-isomer has the highest acute toxic ity, but the other isomers are not without activity. It is gen erally advantageous to purify the 7-isomer from the less active isomers. The γ-isomer acts on the nervous system of insects, principally at the level of the nerve ganglia. As a result, lindane has been used against insects in a wide range of applications including treatment of animals, buildings, humans for ectoparasites, clothes; water for mosquitoes; living plants; seeds and soils. Some applications have been abandoned due to excessive residues, e.g., stored food stuffs. By voluntary action, the principal domestic producer of technical grade BHC requested cancellation of its BHC registrations on September 1, 1976. As of July 21, 1978, all registrants of pesticide products containing BHC voluntar ily canceled their registrations or switched their former BHC products to lindane formulations.

Carcinogenicity

A bioassay of lindane of the NCI was published in 1977. The compound was administered for 80 weeks to groups of Osborne–Mendel rats and B6C3F1 mice. Time-weighted dietary levels for male rats were 236 or 472 ppm; for female rats, 135 or 270 ppm; and for male and female mice, 80 or 160 ppm. Results were as follows: in rats, no tumors occurred at a statistically significant incidence in the treated groups of either sex but (2) in mice, the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in lowdose males was significant when compared with that in the pooled controls (controls 5/49, low dose 19/49, p = 0.001). This finding, by itself, is insufficient to establish the carcinogenicity of lindane. The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in high-dose male mice was not significantly different from that in matched or pooled controls. It is concluded that under the conditions of this bioassay lindane was not carcinogenic for Osborne–Mendel rats or B6C3F1 mice.
As with most other chlorinated insecticides, lindane has been shown to exhibit tumor promotional activity, possibly via inhibition of intercellular communication. Lindane exposures do inhibit formation of liver tumors following exposures to aflatoxin B1, suggesting an activity other than tumor promotion for lindane. Enhancement of enzymatic deactivation of aflatoxin via induction of microsomal enzymes may play a role in this phenomenon.
The combination of lindane’s lack of significant mutagenic activity, its tumor promotional properties, and the lack of epidemiologic evidence suggest that lindane poses a minimal to nonexistent risk of cancer to humans under reasonable and prescribed use conditions.

Shipping

UN2761 Organochlorine pesticides, solid, toxic, Hazard Class: 6.1; Labels: 6.1-Poisonous materials.

Incompatibilities

Incompatible with oxidizers (chlorates, nitrates, peroxides, permanganates, perchlorates, chlorine, bromine, fluorine, etc.); contact may cause fires or explo sions. Keep away from alkaline materials, strong bases, strong acids, oxoacids, epoxides. Decomposes on contact with powdered iron, aluminum, zinc, and on contact with strong bases producing trichlorobenzene.

Waste Disposal

A process has been developed for the destructive pyrolysis of benzene hexachloride @ 400 500℃ with a catalyst mixture which contains 5 10% of either cupric chloride, ferric chloride; zinc chloride; or aluminum chloride on activated carbon.

BHC Preparation Products And Raw materials

Raw materials

Preparation Products

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BHC Spectrum

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