Diethyl oxomalonateDiethyl oxomalonate is the diethyl ester of mesoxalic acid (ketomalonic acid), the simplest oxodicarboxylic acid and thus the first member (n = 0) of a homologous series HOOC–CO–(CH2)n–COOH with the higher homologues oxalacetic acid (n = 1), α-ketoglutaric acid (n = 2) and α-ketoadipic acid (n = 3) (the latter a… Read from the Chembox of the Wikipedia article Diethyl oxomalonate, revision 1380002300.

Property

Value

Formula

C7H10O5, 174.15 g/mol

Melting point

-30 °C

Boiling point

209 °C

Density

1.142 g/cm³

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