SHEET /m/ethyl-acetate · PubChem CID 8857 · CAS 141-78-6 · REV 2026.07
Ethyl acetate
from sourceC4H8O2 · 88.11 g/mol
ethyl ethanoate · acetic ester · acetic ether · ethyl acetic ester
What is Ethyl acetate?
The smell of nail polish remover and pear drops, and the solvent used to strip caffeine out of coffee beans in the naturally decaffeinated process. Found in spirits. from source
Fig. 1 · 2D structure RDKit
CCOC(=O)CWhere you'll find it
Curated by MoleculeFinder from source
The dose makes the poison inferred
A reported rabbit oral LD50 for Ethyl acetate is 4,900 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
4,900 mg/kg · very low toxicity · LD50 rabbit oral from source
The dose lens above scales this to a body weight.
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