Product Overview & Quality

Product Name: Methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK) or 4-Methyl-2-pentanone
Brand: Kemaus (Product Code: KA-2219)
Grade: Analytical Reagent (AR Grade) with a premium purity of 98.5 percent or higher. Meticulously manufactured and verified under Kemaus strict laboratory quality control systems to guarantee exceptionally low thresholds of free acidity, water content, and non-volatile matter. This high-purity profile ensures reliable analytical accuracy and protects sensitive detector baselines from background variance.
Physical Properties: Clear, colorless, highly volatile, and non-viscous liquid with a characteristic pleasant, pungent ketone or mint-like odor.
Solubility: Moderately soluble in water (readily forms a distinct organic layer); completely miscible in all proportions with common organic solvents including ethanol, acetone, ether, and chloroform.
Key Use: Heavily utilized as a premier extraction solvent in analytical chemistry for isolating and concentrating metal complexes or specific organic targets from aqueous matrices. Widely applied in sample preparation workflows for Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) to enhance quantitative sensitivity limits. Commonly used as a solvent or mobile phase element in chromatographic separations, and functions as a functional fluid medium in advanced organic chemical synthesis.

Safety & Hazards (Critical & Flammable)

Classification: Highly flammable liquid and vapor. Harmful if inhaled. Causes serious eye irritation. May cause respiratory irritation. Suspected of causing cancer.
Health Risks: Direct eye contact triggers immediate severe stinging irritation, watering, and localized tissue redness. Prolonged dermal exposure causes severe defatting of skin tissues, leading to cracked, dry discomfort. Inhalation of concentrated volatile vapors suppresses the central nervous system, inducing immediate coughing, dizziness, headaches, or acute nausea.
First Aid Measures: Flush affected eyes or skin immediately with plenty of flowing water for at least 15 minutes. If vapors are inhaled, promptly move the victim to fresh air. Seek medical evaluation if symptoms or discomfort persist.

Handling & Storage

Storage: Highly Flammable and Volatile Liquid. Vapors can easily migrate and form explosive mixtures with air. Must be stored in its original, tightly sealed Kemaus container inside a dedicated chemical safety cabinet for flammable liquids. Keep in a cool, dry, and excellently ventilated zone at stable room temperature (below 30 degrees Celsius). Keep strictly isolated from open flames, sparks, hot surfaces, direct sunlight, and strong oxidizing agents.
Precautions: Wear standard personal protective equipment (PPE), including chemical-resistant laboratory gloves, safety glasses, and a protective lab coat. Handle exclusively within a properly functioning laboratory fume hood to completely contain volatile vapors and eliminate respiratory exposure.