Most buyers arrive knowing what they need the solvent to do rather than which one does it. Pick a requirement and the family narrows.
Select a requirement to narrow the seven products below.
In stockHexylene Glycol
HG · CAS 107-41-5
On the floor: 14 totes at 2028 lb and 4 drums at 408 lb, roughly 30,000 pounds. Ships this week.
A diol with an alcohol and a secondary hydroxyl, completely water miscible and very slow evaporating. It is the coupling agent people reach for when a concentrate will not stay clear.
- Coupling agent holding concentrated cleaners and personal care systems clear
- Coalescent and open time extender in waterborne coatings
- Humectancy and solvency in cosmetics and fragrance
- Concrete admixtures, metalworking fluids, textiles and leather
LimitedDiacetone Alcohol
DAA · CAS 123-42-2
One 430 lb drum on hand. Enough for a trial or a small batch, not a stocking position. Larger volumes on lead time.
Both a ketone and an alcohol on the same molecule, water miscible, and slow evaporating. That dual functionality is why it dissolves things neither a pure ketone nor a pure alcohol will.
- Architectural, coil and wood coatings where slow evaporation controls flow
- Printing inks and solvent cleaning systems
- Solvent for organic peroxides
- Intermediate into hexylene glycol and other derivatives
To orderMethyl Isobutyl Ketone
MIBK · CAS 108-10-1
Not stocked today. Sourced to order in drum, tote and bulk.
The medium evaporating ketone, and the extraction workhorse of the family. Low water solubility plus strong solvency for organics is exactly the combination liquid liquid extraction needs.
- Paints, lacquers, varnishes and adhesives needing fast solvent release
- Extraction, separation and purification, including metals and antibiotics
- Fine chemistry, pharmaceutical and agrochemical processing
- Intermediate into rubber antiozonant chemistry
To orderMethyl Isobutyl Carbinol
MIBC · CAS 108-11-2
Not stocked today. Sourced to order in drum, tote and bulk for flotation and solvent use.
A branched C6 alcohol whose value comes from an asymmetry: about 1.7 percent dissolves in water, while water dissolves into it at 5.8 percent. Soluble enough to disperse through a pulp, insoluble enough to concentrate at the air and water interface. That is a frother.
- Flotation frother in copper, polymetallic and coal circuits
- Selective froth with low persistence, which protects concentrate grade
- Feedstock in ZDDP lube additive synthesis
- Slow evaporating alcohol solvent in coatings and fine chemistry
To orderMesityl Oxide
MO · CAS 141-79-7
Not stocked today. Sourced to order, primarily as an intermediate.
The reactive junction of the whole tree. Everything downstream of DAA passes through mesityl oxide, which is also why its availability moves with the rest of the family.
- Intermediate into MIBK, MIBC, DIBK and isophorone
- Vitamin, flavor and fragrance chemistry
- Coatings, inks and agrochemical formulation
- Specialty intermediate where an alpha unsaturated ketone is required
To orderIsophorone
IPHO · CAS 78-59-1
Not stocked today. Sourced to order in drum, tote and bulk.
A cyclic ketone at the far slow end of the range, boiling above 200 C with an evaporation rate near zero. It goes where a coating needs to stay open, and into isocyanate and amine chemistry.
- High solids coatings and inks needing very slow solvent release
- Intermediate into IPDA and IPDI for polyurethane chemistry
- Epoxy systems, resins and specialty synthesis
- Agrochemical and fine chemical intermediates
To orderTrimethylcyclohexanone
TMCH · CAS 2408-37-9
Not stocked today. Sourced to order as a specialty item.
The isophorone derivative, used where the hydrogenated ring gives solvency or reactivity that isophorone itself does not.
- Specialty polymer synthesis
- Dyes, fragrance and agrochemical intermediates
- Solvent, co-solvent and plasticizer applications
- Flow control in specialty formulation
