Isopropyl Alcohol

CAS：67-63-0

Molecular formula：C3H8O

Molecular weight：60.1

Physicochemical properties: Colorless, transparent and combustible liquid with ethanol like odor. It is miscible with water, ethanol, ether and chloroform.

Application: Isopropanol is an important chemical product and raw material. It is mainly used as dehydrating agent and cleaning agent in pharmaceutical, cosmetics, plastics, spices, coatings and electronic industry.

Reagents for the determination of barium, calcium, magnesium, nickel, potassium, sodium and strontium. Chromatographic analysis of reference substances.

In the circuit board manufacturing industry, it is used as cleaning agent and conductive holes in PCB.

In addition, it is also used in other electronic devices, including cleaning optical disk boxes, floppy disk drives, magnetic tapes, and laser heads of CD or DVD players.

Isopropanol can also be used as a solvent for flexographic printing, lithographic printing, gravure printing, and as an equipment cleaner. This component is often included in inks.

It is also an important solvent for dilution and extraction in the laboratory. In addition, isopropanol is also used as gasoline additive and deicing agent for fuel pipeline.

In the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, isopropanol is used to produce scrubbing liquid, hand and body lotion, preservatives, and pharmaceutical reddening agents.

It is also used in paints, thinners, coatings, cleaners and polishing, as well as surface sterilization, hospital disinfection, food processing plants and so on.

In many industrial and consumer products, isopropanol is used as a low-cost solvent and as an extractant. In many cases, isopropanol can be used instead of ethanol.

Isopropanol is also used as a solvent for oil products and colloids, as well as in the manufacture of fish meal feed concentrate.

Low quality isopropanol is used in automotive fuels.

The consumption of isopropanol as raw material for acetone production is decreasing. Several compounds are synthesized from isopropanol, such as isopropyl ester, methyl isobutyl ketone, isopropylamine, diisopropyl ether, isopropyl acetate, thymol and many esters.