SHEET /m/acetophenone · PubChem CID 7410 · CAS 98-86-2 · REV 2026.07
Acetophenone
from sourceC8H8O · 120.15 g/mol
benzoyl methanide · methylphenylketone · phenylmethylketone · methyl phenyl ketone
What is Acetophenone?
The sweet, cherry-almond, slightly plastic note used in fake cherry and strawberry flavours and in perfumes. from source
Fig. 1 · 2D structure RDKit
CC(=O)C1=CC=CC=C1The dose makes the poison inferred
A reported rat oral LD50 for Acetophenone is 2,081 mg/kg, the dose lethal to half the animals tested. Scaled by body mass alone:
“The dose makes the poison” is a cross-species estimate shown as neutral science, not a threshold anyone should act on. Real toxicity depends on the person, not body mass alone.
Toxicity & hazards
Toxicity · LD50
2,081 mg/kg · very low toxicity · LD50 rat oral from source
The dose lens above scales this to a body weight.
1 more reported value
- 2,200 mg/kgLD50 · oral · rat
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