Diethyl carbonate is a carbonate ester of carbonic acid and ethanol with
the formula OC(OCH2CH3)2. At room temperature (25 °C) diethyl carbonate is a clear liquid
with a low flash point.
Diethyl carbonate is acclimated as a bread-and-butter such as in
erythromycin intramuscular injections. It can be acclimated as a basic of
electrolytes in lithium batteries.
It can be fabricated by reacting phosgene with ethanol, bearing hydrogen
chloride as a byproduct. Because chloroform can acknowledge with oxygen to
anatomy phosgene, chloroform is counterbalanced for accumulator by abacus 1
allotment (by mass) of booze to 100 locations (by mass) of chloroform, so that
any phosgene that forms is adapted into diethyl carbonate.
2CH3CH2OH + COCl2 →
OC(OCH2CH3)2 + 2HCl

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