Acetonitrile

Product overview & key benefits

Technical specifications

Specification available on request.

Applications

The most important use of acetonitrile is as a solvent. For example, as a solvent for extracting butadiene, as a solvent for synthetic fibres and as a solvent for some special paints. In petroleum industry, it is used as a solvent to remove tar, phenol and other substances from petroleum hydrocarbons. In the oil and grease industry as a solvent for the extraction of fatty acids from animal and vegetable oils, and in medicine as a reaction medium for the recrystallisation of steroidal drugs. A binary azeotropic mixture of acetonitrile and water is often used when a polar solvent with a high dielectric constant is required: it contains 84% acetonitrile and has a boiling point of 76℃. Acetonitrile is an intermediate for pharmaceuticals (vitamin B1), spices, and a raw material for the manufacture of homotriazine nitrogen fertiliser synergists. It is also used as denaturant of alcohol. In addition, it can also be used for the synthesis of ethylamine, acetic acid, etc., and has many uses in fabric dyeing and lighting industry.

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