Acetoacetic acid (acetoacetic acid production)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 'acetoacetic acid' is an organic substance with a CAS no. : 000541-50-4. It is called '3-oxobutanoic acid' under IUPAC naming and its molecular formula is: C4H6O3. It is liquid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure. It is modelled as a pure substance. Because of its instability in organic synthesis acetoacetic acid is normally used as ester. Modelling this substance in a solution requires the user to add the solvent of their choice in their models. There is no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on a consumer level. On industrial sites the substance is used for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: chemicals especially as starting materials in the synthesis of intermediates for drugs dyes and agrochemicals. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.