Acetone
Acetone is an organic compound with the formula (CH₃)₂CO. It is the simplest and smallest ketone. It is a colorless, highly volatile, and flammable liquid with a characteristic pungent odour. It is miscible with water and serves as an important organic solvent and finds its use in industries, homes, and laboratories. Acetone exhibits characteristic reactions of aliphatic ketones and is used in the manufacture of methyl methacrylate, Bisphenol-A, Diacetone Alcohol, Isophorone and many dyestuff intermediates. It is also used as a solvent in the production of acetate fibers, cordite, dynamite, TNT, etc. It facilitates the manufacture of drugs and pharmaceuticals like penterol-2-3-methyl butanol-1, chloroform, bromoform, iodoform, ionone, sulphonal, trional, vitamins, sulfamethoxazole, etc. Acetone also finds its use in the purification of asphalt, bitumen, and some rubbers and for the dewaxing of petroleum.
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Hexylene Glycol
- The single largest user of hexylene glycol is the industrial coatings industry which uses approximately 45% of the HGL produced worldwide.
- It is a component in lacquers and varnishes and is a solvent plasticiser in surface coatings. It is also a component in both oil and water-based paints, and in paint strippers.
- Hexylene glycol is also used as a chemical intermediate, which accounts for approximately 20% of its consumption, and another 10% is used on oil and natural-gas fields where it is both a downhole lubricant and a grinding and extraction aid.
- Hexylene glycol is also employed as an antifreeze, and as a coupling agent for hydraulic fluids. It is a moisturising, and setting, agent in the manufacture of textiles. It can also be found in the cosmetics industry where it is a component of fragrances and bath, hair, and soap preparations. It also has a role as a wetting agent in pesticide formulations and is a solvent in the preparation of dyes.
- It is used as a solvent for synthetic fibers and rubbers, oils, gums, resins, carburetor cleaners, lacquers, varnishes, inks, and stains, as well as synthetic food flavoring.
Diacetone Alcohol
- The main use for di acetone alcohol is as a solvent for water-based coatings with approximately 90% of all the DAA produced used in this way.
- It can also be added to cellulose ester lacquers where it produces a brilliant gloss and hard film, with little odour.
- Diacetone alcohol has many other uses including in the making of artificial silk, leather and imitation gold lead, in gravure printing inks, wood stains, wood preservatives and also in degreasers and metal cleaning compounds.
- DAA is also important as a chemical intermediate as it can be condensed to produce mesityl oxide (MO) and water. This carbon-carbon double bond of MO is then selectively hydrogenated to produce MIBK (methyl isobutyl ketone) which is, itself, a valuable industrial solvent.
Isophorone
- It is an industrial chemical used as a solvent in some printing inks, paints, lacquers, and adhesives.
- It is also used in the production of important intermediates 3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexanol, 3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexanone, Isophorone diamine
MIBK
- Solvent in factories that produce paints, rubber products, chemicals, and machinery.
3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexanone
- TMCON is used as a raw material for chemical syntheses e.g. monomer for specialty polycarbonate (Apec®);
- Its peroxides are used as a polymerization initiator.
- It is also used in coatings and paints to provide improved leveling, gloss, and surface finish.
3,3,5-Trimethylcyclohexanol
- 3,3,5-Trimethylcyclohexanol is a precursor to the vasodilator cyclandelate.
- Used to prepare the sunscreen component homosalate and the Organophosphate nerve agent.
Isophorone Diamine
- IPDA is used as a precursor in the manufacture of isophorone diisocyanate like other diamines.
- It is a curing agent for epoxy resins.
- When used in coatings applications the higher cost compared to other amines is justified by the enhanced UV stability and thus lower yellowing tendency.
- In the production of Advanced composite materials (engineering), its higher cost compared to other amines is less critical as performance is the key criterion. Cycloaliphatic amines such as IPDA also are known to have a lower yellowing tendency than other amines and are thus used in coatings applications where this feature is important for aesthetics. Although it is not the only cycloaliphatic amine used in epoxy flooring, it has the largest use by volume.
Isophorone Nitrile
- Precursor for Isophorone Diamine
- Epoxy coatings, epoxy adhesives and epoxy composite
Triacetonamine
- It is primarily used as a stabilizer for plastics, typically via its conversion to a number of hindered amine light stabilizers, but also finds use as a chemical feedstock.
- It is used to prepare the hindered amine 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine,CH2[CH2C(CH3)2]2NH,[2] as well as the radical oxidizer 4-Hydroxy-TEMPO
Methylisobutyl Ketone
- Used as a solvent for gums, resins, paints, varnishes, lacquers, and nitrocellulose
4-Hydroxybenzoic Acid
- 4-Hydroxybenzoic acid (4-HBA) is a white crystalline solid that is widely used in organic synthesis. In particular, its esters, called parabens, are used as preservatives in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
3,3,5-Trimethylcyclohexylethylether (Herbavert) Fragrance
- This has a highly diffusive herbal character, so very good in herbal, aromatic, and Fougere types.
- It can also enhance the apple's fruity or rosy floral top note.
Isopropyl Alcohol
- Isopropyl alcohol is mixed with water for use as a rubbing-alcohol antiseptic.
- It is also used in aftershave lotions, hand lotions, and other cosmetics.
- In industry it is used as an inexpensive solvent for cosmetics, drugs, shellacs, and gums, as well as for denaturing ethanol (ethyl alcohol).
Methylisobutylcarbinol
- Surface coatings, thinners, printing inks, adhesives, cosmetics, toiletries and cleaners.
- It may also be used in pharmaceuticals applications, for the extraction of vitamins and minerals, as wetting agents in lithographic printing and as chemical intermediates
Mesityl Oxide
- Solvent for synthetic fibers and rubbers, oils, gums, resins, carburetor cleaners, lacquers, varnishes, inks and stains, as well as synthetic food flavoring.
Methyl Metacrylate
- Safety glazing, exterior paints, vinyl impact modifiers, adhesives, illuminated light displays and more
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