Petroleum Ether

General Information:

CAS Number: 8032-32-4

Molecular Weight: 82.2 g/mol

Appearance: Colorless liquid

Solvent for silica gel chromatography

Procedure excerpt:

. . . the resulting crude residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography (3:1 petroleum ether/EtOAc) to provide the product . . .

1) Patent Reference: WO2015140133, page 117, (11.7 MB)

2) Wikipedia: Petroleum ether (link)

3) www.sigmaaldrich.com: Petroleum ether (link)